How to Configure Your Food Logger

You can extensively customize the food logger to suit your own needs and preferences. To explore all of the food logger customization options, go to the “More” menu, scroll down to “Feature Settings,” and tap on “Food Logger.”

Plate Banner Design

You can customize the information displayed at the top of your food search interface when engaging with any food logging workflow. Select whether you want to enable utilities like one-tap exit and an ever-present date & time picker, whether you want an indication of your plate contents, which nutrients you’d like to display, whether you’d like to see nutrition info for just the meal you’re logging or your entire day, and more. As you experiment with the Plate Banner Builder, your selections will be reflected in the demo banner the top of the screen, so that you can see the impact of your selections immediately. For more on customizing your plate banner, check out this article.

All of the configuration options for the Plate Banner Builder

Overage Display

When you exceed your energy or macronutrient targets for the day, do you just want to know that you’ve reached your targets for the day, or do you want to know the size of the overage (when using the “Show Remaining After Plate” view for the nutrition info in your plate banner, and the “Remaining” view for your dashboard widgets).

If you just want to see that you’ve reached your targets for the day, stick with the “No Overage” option. If you want to see the size of the overages, select the “Show Overages” option.

Favorite Weight Measurements

Favorite weight measurements will be pinned to an easily accessible position when logging any food or beverage that you can log by mass. You can select up to two weight measurements as your favorites. Your choices are grams, ounces, and pounds.

Favorite Volume Measurements

Favorite volume measurements will be pinned to an easily accessible position when logging any food or beverage that you can log by volume. You can select up to two volume measurements as your favorites. Your choices are milliliters, cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, and fluid ounces.

Food Tile Design

Use the Food Tile Builder to customize how foods will look in search results.

Tile Density is much like the Food Search Layout options: “Comfort” is recommended for most devices, but it may be worth trying “Condensed” if you have a smaller phone.

Display Information options let you customize which information will be present on food search results. Most people prefer to display Macros, Weight, and Serving information, but you can deselect any of these options if you prefer a less information-dense display.

Highlight Element lets you select the element that will show up on the right side of the food tile. Multi-Add is the default, unlocking a lightning-fast food logging workflow. But, if you don’t find yourself using the Multi-Add feature, you could instead select Energy as the highlight element, to make the caloric content of foods a bit more prominent on food tiles. Finally, “None” provides a bit more space for long food names.

As you experiment with the Food Tile Builder, your selections will be reflected in the two test foods at the top of the screen, so that you can see the impact of your selections immediately.

All of the configuration options for the Food Tile Builder

Time Logging

Select how you’d like to go about logging foods to different days and times. You can read more about the time logging options here.

Food Logging Style

“Optimize for speed” is the default option, decreasing friction and allowing you to log foods as fast as possible. “Optimize for context” slows things down a bit, bringing you to your plate after adding each food, so that you can see the impact of each food on the meal you’re logging. You can read more about food logging styles here.

All of the food logger configuration options

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