This page shows all of the foods that you have ever entered in the diary.
This list shows each food, grouped into different categories. Each food is shown by name, and lists all of the nutrient amounts, such as calories, fat, sodium etc.
To edit one of the foods in the list, double click on it, or
press the
button..
NOTE: Colour coded entries are only available with the Diary+ add on.
One of the features of the My Food page is a set of colour coded indicators that show you what foods in the list are good to eat, and which are bad. The way is works is like this:
What the different colours mean:
The Colour | Meaning |
Red | Eating this food will send you over the limit for that particular target. |
Light Red | This food gives you more than 30% of your maximum RDI for that target. It won't send you over, but it will push you close to the edge. |
White | Neural - Neither good nor bad. |
Light Green | This food gives you more than 20% of your minumum RDI for that target. A good one to eat lots of... |
Green | This food will get you up to your minimum RDI for that target. |
Note:
The green recommendations generally only start to show up later in the day. The main reason for that is that you only really know what nutrients you are short on by lunchtime. For example: Many breakfast cereals are reasonably low in salt. If the system used that to decide that you had not taken in much salt, then it might start recommending high salt foods to compensate - Hardly what a health conscious system should be doing. So it waits until after lunch to start recommending things to eat more of.
The categories can be set up however you like. To create a new category, edit a food that you want to go into that category (see the Food Edit Dialog). Set the category to the new category you want. When you complete the edit, you will see a brand-new category, with that food in it.
Entering text into the filter field (see Searching) will cause My Foods to only show foods that match the text in the field.
Press on the toolbar, and you
will see the Food Edit dialog.
You can enter a brand new food into here (for example, from the
internet, if the food is not in the food database).
Press
on the toolbar. This
adds the food to the diary. You will be prompted to select a meal.
Either double click on the food in the list, or press the button on the
toolbar.
Select the food in the list, then press the
button on the toolbar.