Hey, thanks for the app. I've been playing around with it. Looks great. Interface seems snappy. I could use some advice on how to actually use it. Ok here goes.... How do I enter an egg? Entry defaults to 100g. I tried serving, piece for units. I don't really measure eggs. I've linked to the OFF and USDA databases. Unless it's something I measure, entry feels wonky. What's the best way to do this?
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Hey, thanks for trying it out!
For things you don't measure by weight (eggs being the classic example), the easiest path is to make a local entry once and then reuse it. A few ways to go about it.
The nutrition label on your egg carton is your friend here. It'll show you the serving size, usually 1 large egg at around 50g, plus the full breakdown (calories, protein, fat, carbs). Tap the + on the Foods page, type those numbers in, set Serving size to 50 and Unit to "grams". From then on, logging eggs is just typing "Quantity: 2" in the diary and the math takes care of itself.
For irregularly-sized stuff like apples or bananas, a kitchen scale is honestly the easiest path. A medium apple can swing anywhere from 130g to 220g, so weighing it once and typing the gram count gets you accurate numbers without needing a separate per-piece entry for every size.
One thing worth knowing about OFF and USDA results: the "100g" you see is just the per-100g nutrition density. That's how those databases store everything, it's a baseline reference, not a forced serving size. So you can either weigh your food and type the grams directly, or edit the entry to change the portion and unit (say to "1 piece" or "1 cup") and the totals rescale.
Once you've dialed in a handful of items you eat regularly, day-to-day logging gets a lot faster. The new Favorites and Most Used sort in rc.19 will float your top items to the top of the Foods page automatically.
Thanks for the response!. Looking forward to trying it out in conjunction with Mealie! Cheers!
Hey,
Like the look of the app so far. I will be spinning up a local server when I am not coming off a morning shift, and see if I can get a pass on the WAF.
Just a quick question, being in Australia the bulk of our food metrics are in kilojoules, I have selected this as the default energy measure however there are a few areas where I am still getting calories presented.
For example in the Diary I am getting kcals on both the food and the summary. I imagine you do everything in calories and this just slipped past but wondering if I missed a setting?
Also I had a quick scan and like that the AI integrations are optional but I was unclear if AI was used to code the project, do you have a position on that?
On the whole I am liking what I see so far.
Glad you're enjoying it.
On the kJ, you're right. The setting was being respected for goals and storage but a bunch of display spots still had kcal hardcoded. Just pushed the fix to dev and it'll be in the next public release. Also added auto-detect so if your device locale is en-AU or en-NZ the wizard pre-selects kJ on first run, no toggle needed (but present now in settings).
On AI for coding, yes I utilize it. Claude Code to be specific. It makes me more efficient and helps lift the work I ship.
Will let you know when i push out the update, should be later today.
Just pushed rc.15 with the fix. Energy unit setting is now respected across the app, and the wizard auto-picks kJ for AU and NZ on first run.
OK, cool. I hope everything goes well for you with the project.
This is freaking great
Thank you! Enjoy the app!
Food often contains water. Can I configure how much water a food has per 100g or 100ml? I didn't find it in the nutrition list.
Would this amount of water be included into the daily water budget?
Currently no, there's no per-food water field in NutriTrace, and food water doesn't count toward your daily water goal. The water tab tracks drinking water only.
What's the actual use case for you, comprehensive nutrition accounting, or trying to reduce the explicit drinking water target based on what you ate? They're different problems and the answer would shape what (if anything) makes sense to add in the future.
I like the app. Thanks for sharing.
trying to reduce the explicit drinking water target based on what you ate
I think this is/ was my plan, yes.
This is not a feature request. I was just wondering where the water intake is tracked. As part of a recipe or food would've felt natural to me. Hence the question. I missed the water sub tab in the diary tab's top right corner.
My feedback:
Cooked noodles, soft drinks, a cup of coffee with sugar, a glass of water with lemon juice, protein shakes would be examples for "watery" food.
Right now one can keep track of the nutrients + fibre + x in food in one calculation. And then there is a second tracking just for water.
Two lists feel more complicated than one list. To add a cup of coffee I need to add the nutrients part (sugar, coffein, fat) as a food entry in the diary tab + a cup of water in the water sub tab.
Currently no, there's no per-food water field in NutriTrace, and food water doesn't count toward your daily water goal.
Thanks. Fine by me. :)
I could add a custom nutrient "water" to my foods and recipes to achieve what I planned. Or I just ignore water intake tracking.
Glad the workaround clicked. Custom-nutrient "water" plus your own recipes is the cleanest path for comprehensive accounting without waiting on a built-in feature.
The "two lists feels more complicated than one" observation is fair and worth sitting with. Ill add this as a possible future feature
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback.