''Part of the [[Using the iOS app|Loopa iOS app]] guide.''
'''Describe a meal''' lets you log a whole meal by saying or typing it in plain words — ''"two eggs, a slice of toast and a black coffee"'' — instead of searching each food one at a time. You open it from the '''Describe''' tile on [[The Food log screen]] (it also opens automatically when a barcode scan comes back empty, so you can just describe the item). See [[Logging food]] and [[Using the iOS app]] for the wider picture.
''General wellness tracking, not medical advice.''
== Saying or typing your meal == The sheet is titled '''Describe a Meal''' and reads ''"Say or type what you ate — I'll sort it into foods."'' Type into the box, or tap the keyboard's '''microphone''' and dictate it — voice needs no extra setup, it's the system dictation. When you're done, tap '''Read it'''.
== Confirm, then log == The app parses your sentence into separate foods and lists them under a '''Found''' heading, each with a checkbox and its calories. Each food is matched against the food database for accurate numbers; anything the database can't match is estimated by AI and marked '''AI ESTIMATE''' so you know which is which. Every item it's confident about starts checked.
Tick or untick items to choose what to log, then tap '''Log ''(count)''''' in the top corner. Each picked food goes into the meal you had selected on [[The Food log screen]] (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, or Snack), and the AI-estimated ones are quietly saved to your own foods so they're a one-tap search next time — see [[Estimate a food with AI]]. If nothing could be picked out, it tells you so and asks you to name the foods more plainly.
== See also ==
- [[The Food log screen]]
- [[Estimate a food with AI]]
- [[Eating out]]
- [[Food search]]
- [[Logging food]]
- [[Using the iOS app]]
[[Category:The iOS app]] [[Category:mobieusHealth]] [[Category:Food and nutrition]]
''Part of the [[Using the iOS app|Loopa iOS app]] guide.'' '''Describe a meal''' lets you log a whole meal by saying or typing it in plain words — ''"two eggs, a slice of toast and a black coffee"'' — instead of searching each food one at a time. You open it from the '''Describe''' tile on [[The Food log screen]] (it also opens automatically when a barcode scan comes back empty, so you can just describe the item). See [[Logging food]] and [[Using the iOS app]] for the wider picture. ''General wellness tracking, not medical advice.'' == Saying or typing your meal == The sheet is titled '''Describe a Meal''' and reads ''"Say or type what you ate — I'll sort it into foods."'' Type into the box, or tap the keyboard's '''microphone''' and dictate it — voice needs no extra setup, it's the system dictation. When you're done, tap '''Read it'''. == Confirm, then log == The app parses your sentence into separate foods and lists them under a '''Found''' heading, each with a checkbox and its calories. Each food is matched against the food database for accurate numbers; anything the database can't match is estimated by AI and marked '''AI ESTIMATE''' so you know which is which. Every item it's confident about starts checked. Tick or untick items to choose what to log, then tap '''Log ''(count)''''' in the top corner. Each picked food goes into the meal you had selected on [[The Food log screen]] (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, or Snack), and the AI-estimated ones are quietly saved to your own foods so they're a one-tap search next time — see [[Estimate a food with AI]]. If nothing could be picked out, it tells you so and asks you to name the foods more plainly. == See also == * [[The Food log screen]] * [[Estimate a food with AI]] * [[Eating out]] * [[Food search]] * [[Logging food]] * [[Using the iOS app]] [[Category:The iOS app]] [[Category:mobieusHealth]] [[Category:Food and nutrition]]
