Advanced nutrition & supplements

Your Food & water page keeps the big four front and centre: calories, protein, carbs and fat. Advanced nutrition is everything else that food carries, on its own page, so the day-to-day view stays readable and the detail is one click away.

What gets tracked

Around sixty values in all, grouped the way a label groups them: the fat types (saturated, mono- and polyunsaturated, trans, omega-3 and omega-6), cholesterol, sugars including added sugars, starch and sugar alcohols, every major mineral, all thirteen vitamins, the individual amino acids, plus caffeine and alcohol.

Where the numbers come from

• USDA and Open Food Facts fill most of it in for you. Whenever you log a food from either database, whatever they publish beyond the basics is stored with it.
• Barcodes work the same way: scan a pack and the full panel comes with it.
• Snap a meal and Describe a meal estimate the extra nutrients too, quietly, without you having to ask.
• Your own foods and recipes have a Show advanced section on the add-food form. Databases often leave micronutrients blank, so anything missing is yours to fill in from the label.

Daily Values

Every nutrient is shown against its FDA Daily Value for adults, so a figure means something without you having to look anything up: 45 mg of vitamin C reads as 50% of a day. Where no authority publishes a Daily Value, and there are several (total sugars, trans fat and the amino acids among them), you get the amount with no percentage rather than a target nobody stands behind.

If your own numbers differ, Set your own targets at the bottom of the page overrides any of them. Leave a box empty to go back to the Daily Value.

The daily table

Each group gets a table showing the amount, the target, the percentage of it, and a bar split between what came from food and what came from supplements. Nutrients you logged nothing for are hidden by default, since on a normal day most of the sixty-odd are empty and scrolling past rows of dashes helps nobody. Tick Show all to see the full list, which is also how you check whether something is genuinely missing or simply not covered for that food.

Charts and figures over time

Tick as many nutrients as you like to put them on one chart together over 7, 14, 30 or 90 days. Because units differ wildly between them (micrograms of B12 against grams of fat), the first nutrient uses the left axis and the rest share the right, so a small number is never flattened against a large one.

Underneath is the same data as a plain table, newest day first. A chart answers “is this going up”; a table answers “what was it on Tuesday”, and both are worth having.

Supplements

The Supplements page holds the things you take rather than eat. Add each one once, copying what one dose contains off the label, and it joins your stack. After that you just tick off what you took each day.

• Supplements count into the same totals as your food. The vitamin C in an orange and the vitamin C in a tablet land in one number, which is the only way a daily total means anything.
• They are kept out of food search, so looking for “iron” in the food catalog never turns up your iron tablet.
• Most supplements have no calories, so they are added with none unless the label says otherwise.
• Removing one from your stack leaves the days you already logged it on exactly as they were.

This is tracking, not advice. Daily Values are general population figures, not a recommendation for you, and hitting or missing one is not a medical finding. Talk to a doctor or dietitian before starting, stopping or changing a supplement, particularly on GLP-1 treatment where appetite and absorption both change.