Fix a meal read

Photos are good at spotting what is on a plate and less good at how much. When something’s off, fix it — the meal’s numbers update straight away.

Check this read

Under the food list on the meal page there is one row, Check this read. It says Worth a look when part of the read is a guess. Tap it and one sheet opens with the three ways to tell the app whether it got the meal right.

Looks right

If the foods and amounts are right, tap Looks right. The sheet closes and the meal page shows Ingredients checked by you.

When a breakdown’s numbers are not the meal’s numbers yet, the meal page itself shows Looks right — use these numbers under the list instead of the row.

What went in?

A photo can’t show oil or ghee, salt, sugar or milk, so the app guesses them. When it has guessed one, the sheet asks:

• Oil, ghee or butter — None, A little, As usual or A lot, and then Oil or Ghee or butter.
• Salt — None, Less or Normal.
• Sugar or jaggery — None, A little or Normal.
• Milk, cream or curd — None, Plant-based or Dairy.

Pick an answer for each and tap Update the numbers. The meal’s numbers change straight away, and a line tells you what moved. Only the oil, salt, sugar or milk the app added changes; the foods in the dish stay as they are. Nothing is asked about what you already wrote in your note (“no oil”, “less salt”), and your last answers are picked for you next time.

A meal shows Check on Home when a guess is large enough to matter — more than a pinch of salt or a teaspoon of oil or sugar. Looks right keeps the app’s guesses.

Fix with a sentence

The fastest way to change several things. Type what was different — “it was brown rice, not white”, “only half the naan”, “no cheese” — and tap Apply. If part of it couldn’t be used you’ll see Couldn’t apply: ….

Fix one food

In On the plate, tap a food:

• Edit its name or grams, then Save. A new name is re-matched to USDA data.
• Remove it (tap twice to confirm).
• Flag it if it looks wrong and you’re not sure how to fix it.
• Wrong food? Pick the USDA match — search USDA foods and pick the right one.

Add a food that was missed

Tap Add a food, type it and its grams, choose what dish it’s part of if any, and tap Add.

Packaged food the app doesn’t know

Tap Packaged food? Look up online on that food, then Search. When the label is found you can Use label nutrition, or Split into ingredients. Use the estimate instead puts the app’s original numbers back.

Change the whole meal

To describe the meal again from scratch, use Edit at the top of the meal page — see Edit, move or delete a meal.