Reviewing meal estimates

Meal estimates attach to journal entries you have labelled as meals. You can review the food description, match a more specific food, or enter a calorie value you already know. Estimates can remain ranges when the food or portion is unclear.

Start with an entry such as “A bowl of rice and beans.” Glob cannot turn an imprecise portion into an exact measurement merely by displaying a number. Add the detail you actually know and inspect what the estimate uses.

Label and review a meal#

In Today, confirm Log meal when a meal prompt appears, or use the entry's Mark as Meal action. Open Review Meal to inspect it.

In What did you eat?, edit the food description. Use journal text restores the journal entry's text into that field. Add food from local table lets you choose a specific food when the quick match is broad or missing.

The review shows Estimated items, recognised food names, portion information when available, and Estimate. Not in table identifies an unmatched item. No calorie estimate yet means the current description has not produced a usable total.

Choose Save estimate to save the reviewed meal information. An empty food description disables that action. Cancel leaves the review without saving those draft edits.

Enter a value you know#

Under A value you know, Calories (optional) accepts an explicit value. Glob uses that meal value instead of replacing it with the table total.

For example, if you have a value for the actual portion, enter that value rather than changing the description until an approximate food match happens to display it. The explanation distinguishes your entered value from a table estimate or a previously saved similar meal.

Ask for an editable food list#

Ask Glob AI requests help identifying the food description. A result appears under AI suggestion. It can include a clarification question and Add a detail (optional); Refine suggestion uses that additional detail for another request.

Use this editable list puts the suggestion into the editor. It is still a draft: review the food names, quantities and any labelled AI estimates, then choose Save estimate. Discard suggestion leaves the meal text unchanged.

Foods matched to local tables use their table values. Unmatched foods can use an AI calorie estimate, labelled accordingly. A provider error or unavailable model does not require deleting the journal entry; you can continue editing the food description or supplying a value yourself.

Read the Nutrition overview#

Open Nutrition from the tools selector. It summarises labelled meals and their available estimates. A meal without an estimate is different from a meal with a value of zero.

The overview identifies available food tables, including USDA and Canadian sources, and shows when a table is unavailable. It also offers AI estimation for meals that still need it. Branded-food lookups and saved food matches have their own cache and memory controls.

Clear branded-food cache clears those cached matches while keeping the journal entries and food tables. Clear saved food memory clears remembered food values, also separately from the entries and tables. Neither control is the same as deleting a journal day.

Set a personal reference#

Settings → Nutrition includes Daily calorie reference. Enter an optional value and choose Save, or use Remove reference. The app presents this as your reference rather than a recommendation or a goal selected for you.

This setting does not supply missing portion details, change the foods you logged, or turn an AI estimate into a measured value.

Remove the label#

Remove meal label in the review, or Remove Meal Label on the entry, removes its meal classification. It does not delete the journal text. Use the journal entry's separate Delete action only when you intend to remove the entry itself.

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