List the medicines you take and ClapDiet checks the foods you look at against
them.
Where the list lives
On the web, go to Settings > Profile. The Medications section isthere, and the interactions ClapDiet found from it sit directly beneath.
On the phone, go to Profile > Medications.Adding one
Type the name. Dosage and frequency are optional and free text.
This is a list of names, not a prescription database. There is nothing to search
and nothing to pick from a dropdown — the name you type is matched against
seventeen therapeutic classes, so a generic name works best. If you take
lisinopril, type lisinopril.
What is matched, and what happens when nothing matches
ClapDiet knows seventeen medication classes and twenty-two food interactions
between them:
Potassium-sparing diuretics, ACE inhibitors, ARBs, loop diuretics, thiazide
diuretics, warfarin, levothyroxine, statins metabolised by CYP3A4, MAOIs,
selective MAOIs, metformin, proton-pump inhibitors, bisphosphonates,
tetracyclines, fluoroquinolones, digoxin and lithium.
A name that matches none of them is listed back to you as not covered, and
that wording is deliberate. An empty interaction list beside a medicine we could
not classify means "we have no data on this", never "this is fine".
The five kinds of interaction
ClapDiet does not treat every interaction as the same shape of problem, because
they are not:
KindWhat it means AvoidThe food and the medicine should not be combined Nutrient ceilingThe medicine puts a daily limit on a nutrient Nutrient floorThe medicine depletes a nutrient, so you need more of it ConsistencyKeep your intake at its usual level — up or down both matter TimingSpace the food and the dose apartThe consistency kind is the one most often got wrong elsewhere. If you take
warfarin, a vitamin-K-rich food is not something to skip; what matters is
that your intake stays about where it usually is. ClapDiet says that, in those
words, rather than colouring the food red.
Four severities
SeverityWhat it does CriticalShown on the food page, raised as an alert, and the only severity that adds a step before you log the food ImportantShown on the food page and raised as an alert ModerateShown on the food page Good to knowShown on the food pageOnly critical interrupts anything. That is a rule, not an accident: a
confirmation dialog on a timing note trains people to click through the one
dialog that means "this could put you in hospital". Moderate and good-to-know
warnings sit above the log button and never take a click.
Where warnings appear
On a food's page
Above the log button, one box per interaction, each saying what tripped it — the
nutrient and the amount per 100 g against the threshold used, or the words in the
product name that suggest it may contain something.
Name matches are described as name matches. When ClapDiet says a product's name
suggests it may contain aged cheese, it is telling you to read the ingredients
list, not asserting what is in the tin.
Before logging a critical one
A dialog naming the interaction, why this food tripped it, which of your
medicines it applies to, and the source. Its buttons are Go back and I've
read this — continue. It records that you saw the warning; it does not ask you
to accept a risk.
On your dashboard
Critical and important interactions become safety alerts in the banner at the top
of the dashboard. You can mark one read or dismiss it. Moderate and good-to-know
interactions never become alerts — they stay on the food page, where they belong.
On the clinician report
Clinician Report prints every interaction as a table: severity, kind,guidance, what triggered it, and the source. Medicines we could not classify are
printed too, under their own heading.
If we could not check
When the check itself fails, ClapDiet says so — "we couldn't check this food
against your medications just now, and that is not an all-clear" — rather than
showing you a clean food page. Silence is the one thing a safety surface must
never do.
Removing one
Same place you added it. Remove a medicine and the alerts it raised are retired
with it.
Supplements
There is no separate supplements list. If a supplement matters for interactions —
potassium, iron, calcium, vitamin K — add it as a medication under its name.
Disclaimer: ClapDiet's interaction warnings are informational and are not a
substitute for advice from your pharmacist or doctor. Every warning carries its
source; take it to them.
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