What exploding does
A recipe logs as one line — clean, but opaque. Explode replaces that single entry with its individual ingredients, each one now separately editable in your diary, at the amounts your servings implied.
The recipe itself is untouched; exploding only changes how this one diary entry is represented.
When it's the right tool
- You skipped or swapped something. No cheese tonight? Explode, delete the cheese line, done — the rest stays accurate.
- One amount was different. Extra rice this time: explode and edit just that ingredient.
- You want to see inside. Which ingredient is carrying the calories? Exploded, the diary shows you.
How to do it
Two doors, same result:
- select the entry in your journal — tap it — and choose Explode in the selection bar;
- open the food's detail and use Explode beside the primary button at the bottom. It sits there rather than among the other quick actions, which live in the header's overflow menu.
The layers glyph you see on a composite entry's row is a marker, not a button: it tells you the entry has ingredients inside, and exploding is done from one of the two doors above.
Whichever you use, the plate opens with the ingredients laid out — remove, adjust, or add before confirming, and the confirmation replaces the original entry with the individual lines.
Composite meals detected by photo logging work the same way — they're ingredient groups too, so they explode just like a recipe.