The screen below is the custom food screen of the Food Diary.
This is the new custom food screen. The food diary in this screen allows you
to define custom foods. The first thing you need to do is enter the food
description.
When entering the description, keep in mind that the food will be categorized
under all the foods based on the food description. So, if you have two foods
starting with the same word such as Apple, they will be grouped under the same
category Apple. And when you open the Apple category you'll have two choose a
specific food you meant.
So Apple pie and Apple cookie will both appear under Apple. And when you open
the Apple category you'll have cookie and pie.
Next enter the number of calories, fat, proteins, carbs, sodium, and dietary
fiber off nutritional label of the food. And then enter the weight of of this
portion of food.
So if you have 28 g of food containing 30 calories, 5 g of fat, etc. enter
that as it says in the nutritional facts food label. You can select the weight
of this portion to be in grams, pounds, ounces, or milliliters.
After entering the basic food information, you can enter any of the other
nutritional values that are secondary such as potassium, Zinc, and other of the
140 nutritional values we track in the food diary.
At this point you have just to define the basic food make up for your custom
food. So when you're done, click apply. The food has been added into the
database.
If you would like to edit this food values, into foot Explorer select custom
foods, then select the food you want to edit the values for. And click at it to
custom foods button on the top right of the food Explorer.
If you would like to add a custom manager such as one cop or one glass, then
select the food into foot Explorer as if you're going to edit to your meal. In
the measures, scroll down and select add new measure. Then you'll be able to add
the new measure such as Juan Koppel one glass or one plate to your custom food.
Our food database has over 50,000 foods, and we update the foods database
regularly. However, if you would like to add your own food, this screen allows
you to do so.
Specify A Nutrient Value By Amount or Percentage
When specifying an amount of a nutrient in a custom food, you can either
enter the specific amount of the nutrient or enter the nutrients' percentage.
You can also change the percentage of the recommended daily allowance for
each nutrient. The program comes preset with the FDA's recommended daily
allowance.
You can also create a custom food by automatically using the
nutritional values of an existing food in the
database. So if you only want to make a few adjustments, you don't have to
reenter all the nutritional information, just the changes.
Create Custom Measures
You can add to any food, a custom food you created, or a food from the
main database, a custom measure. For instance, below you can see how
to create a custom measure of "1 tablespoon" which equals "4 ounces" of
Coconut Oil.
From this point on, whenever the user selects this Coconut oil food, an
option of "1 tablespoon" will also appear, in addition to gram, ounce and
etc..
