Daily Food Logging | ClapDiet Help Center

Your food log is the single input the rest of ClapDiet reads. Recommendations, the weekly briefing, the lab forecast, your streak and every nutrient figure on the app are computed from it, so it is worth a minute to log things the way you actually ate them.

Logging a food on the web

Find the food. Foods searches the whole database; My Foods, Favorites and Collections search only what you have saved.

Open it and click Log Food.

Set the Serving Size and its Unit — grams, ounces, cups and whatever units that food itself carries.

Pick the Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner or Snack. ClapDiet pre-selects one from the time of day, and you can change it.

Check Estimated Nutrition. Calories, protein, carbs and fat update as you change the serving, so you see what you are about to log before you log it.

Click Log Food again to save it.

The preview is computed from the same figures the log is stored with. If a food shows 180 kcal in the preview it is stored as 180 kcal.

Logging a food on the phone

Tap Log Food from the tracking dashboard or from a meal card on Daily Summary. Search, tap a food to add it, adjust the servings with the plus and minus buttons, choose the meal along the top, and tap Log. You can select several foods and log them together.

Two extras worth knowing about

A suggested serving. Where ClapDiet knows a typical serving for that food, it offers it beside the serving box, so you can take it instead of guessing. A note about the food, for you. Some foods come back with a short verdict and a pairing tip based on your lab results and conditions — for example that a food is high in something you are trying to keep down, and what to eat alongside it. It appears in the log dialog and is advice, not a block: you can always log the food.

Correcting an entry

On the phone, open Daily Summary, tap the entry under its meal, and the editor opens. Change the serving, move it to a different meal, or tap Remove from log. Changing the serving rescales its nutrients, and the day totals update straight away. On the web, open your dashboard and remove the entry from today's list, then log it again with the right serving.

Logging when you are offline

If you log a food on the web with no connection, ClapDiet queues it and tells you so. The entry shows as pending and is sent as soon as you are back online — you do not need to remember it or type it twice.

What happens after you log

Your day's totals, macros and micronutrients update.

Your food-logging streak rolls over, if this is the first entry of the day in your timezone.

Logging achievements count up.

The coaching and nudges elsewhere in the app are recalculated from the new totals.

A back-dated entry still counts toward your totals for that day and toward logging achievements, but it does not roll your streak — streaks are about the days you actually logged on.

Good habits

Log as you eat rather than at the end of the day. It takes less time and you forget less.

Log approximately rather than not at all. A rough serving is far better data than a blank day.

Use the closest specific match. "Greek yoghurt, plain, 2%" is a different food from "yoghurt".

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