AI meal photo logging
Snap a plate for an estimate, or a nutrition label to read it exactly.
The fastest way to log a meal: take a photo and let AI do the work. It handles two kinds of photo and works out for itself which one you’ve given it.
Photograph a meal
- On the Food & water page, tap Snap a meal (next to “Add food”).
- Choose the date and meal, then take or choose a photo of your plate.
- AI returns the foods it sees with estimated calories, protein, carbs, fat and fiber.
- Adjust anything, add or remove items, then Log to diary.
Photograph a nutrition label
Point the camera at the nutrition facts panel on a packet instead, and it switches modes automatically: rather than estimating from a picture of food, it reads the panel and transcribes the printed figures. Far more accurate than guessing at a packaged food.
- You get the product name and its serving size, with the macros for one serving exactly as printed.
- Then you say how much you actually had: ½, 1 or 2 servings, or the whole container when the pack states how many servings it holds. The numbers scale as you pick.
- You can still type an exact amount on the row if you had something in between.
- Where a panel prints both per-serving and per-100g columns, the per-serving column is used; if it only prints per 100g, you’ll get a 100 g serving and a note saying so.
Either way, logged items go straight into your food diary and count toward your daily targets, including fiber, just like any other entry.
For a label, fill the frame with the panel and keep it flat and in focus: a sharp, straight-on shot reads far better than an angled one across a curved packet. Always check the transcribed figures, and the serving size in particular, before logging.
Estimates from a plate get the same plausibility check as a typed description: the calories have to agree with the protein, carbs and fat given for that item, and no food is allowed an energy density it couldn’t physically have. A transcribed label is left exactly as printed, because there the panel is the authority. Anything that gets corrected is listed above your items, never changed silently.
AI estimates from a photo of food are approximate, and a close, clear, well-lit shot helps. They’re not a substitute for a label or a measured portion.
These guides are for using the app. They’re not medical advice: the medication-level estimates in particular are a model for personal tracking only. Talk to your clinician about your treatment.