Micronutrients and Nutrient Goals

Beyond calories and macros — what else the app tracks, and how to set goals for it.

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What gets tracked

Every diary entry tracks fiber, sugar, and sodium alongside its calories and macros. Foods with richer label data carry more: added sugar, the fat breakdown (saturated, trans, mono- and polyunsaturated), cholesterol, potassium, calcium, iron, vitamins A, C, and D, magnesium, phosphorus, and zinc.

A food's detail shows its full breakdown in a collapsible section. For your own custom foods it appears once you've entered micronutrient values — a blank there means "not entered," and the app is careful not to display absent data as zeros.

Your Insights turn all of it into trends: over twenty metrics, from calories down to zinc, each with its history over time.

Nutrient goals

Each tracked nutrient can carry a goal with up to three lines:

  • a floor — the minimum worth reaching (fiber, potassium…);
  • a target — the point to aim at;
  • a ceiling — the level to stay under (sodium, added sugar…).

Out of the box, goals run on Auto: sensible values derived from your profile — age and sex included — and your calorie target, updating as those change. Any nutrient can be switched to a custom goal with your own numbers (a dietitian's sodium cap, a deliberate fiber push), or to none if you'd rather not see it judged at all.

You'll find them in the nutrient goals screen; changes apply from today onward, and your history keeps the goals it was lived under.

An honest caveat

Micronutrient totals are only as complete as the labels behind your foods — a day of generic entries will understate zinc long before it understates calories. Treat micro trends as directional, and the label scanner as the way to make your staples precise.