Part of the Loopa iOS app guide.
The Food log screen is where you record what you eat and watch it land against your calorie and macro budget for the day. It is titled Food in the app, and you reach it from the Health hub's The Log section (tap Food), from the Quick-Log button (the Food pill opens it as a full-height sheet), or from the food card on Today's Page. For the bigger picture of how logging works, see Logging food and Using the iOS app.
General wellness tracking, not medical advice.
The calorie budget hero
The top card is your day at a glance. A ring shows today's total calories against your target (for example, "1,240 of 2,000"), and beside it three macro readouts (Protein, Carbs, and Fat) show the grams you've logged so far, stamped Today. The target comes from your plan; see The Plan tab and Calorie and macro tracking for where those numbers originate.
"What should I eat?"
Below the hero is the What should I eat? card. Its subline updates with how much room you have left (the calories remaining and the protein still to go), or reads "Targets hit, still hungry?" once you're close. Tapping it opens The Order: three meal ideas sized against your remaining macros for the current meal, each two taps from logged. See Meal planner for the idea behind it. After you log from here, an Undo banner sits at the bottom of the screen for a few seconds in case you change your mind.
Fast ways to add food
A row of four buttons sits right under the "What should I eat?" card. These are the quick entry points, no longer tucked in the toolbar:
- Scan opens the live barcode scanner (see below and Barcode scanning).
- Snap Meal opens Meal photo to shoot your plate (see below and Meal photo AI).
- Describe takes a whole meal in plain words, spoken or typed; see Describe a meal.
- Eating Out gets you a few on-plan orders for wherever you're eating; see Eating out.
The barcode and camera buttons also remain in the top toolbar, alongside the bookmark that opens My Meals.
Meal types
A row of segmented pills sets which meal anything you add next goes into: Bre, Lun, Din, Sna (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack). Pick the meal first, then search, scan, snap, or describe.
Finding and adding food
A Search foods field sits at the top of the screen at all times. It is always visible, no longer hidden behind a pull-down. Type at least two letters and results appear after a short pause; each row shows the food's name, its serving size, and its calories with a +. See Food search for how the database is queried.
Tapping a result opens the Portion editor as a half-height sheet. It shows the food and its "per serving" size, a small AI-check indicator (see Food data quality), a Servings stepper you can nudge in half-serving steps (or type a number), and a live Calories tile that updates as you change the amount. Tap Add to [meal] to log it. This lets you record the real amount you ate instead of always logging a single serving.
No match? If your search turns up nothing, a card offers to estimate it with AI. Tap it to get calories and macros for the food, log it, and keep it for next time. See Estimate a food with AI.
The AI check and reporting bad data
In the Portion editor, the AI-check indicator tells you whether a food's serving and macros look right (AI-checked, AI: serving may be off, or AI: data flagged), from a one-time sanity check that's cached per food. If the numbers look wrong, tap Report incorrect data to flag it: an admin reviews it and the app re-checks it with AI. See Food data quality for the full workflow.
Scanning a barcode
The Scan button (and the barcode toolbar button) opens a live camera scanner. Point it at a product's barcode (it reads EAN and UPC codes); the first code it recognizes is looked up and logged straight into the current meal at one serving. You'll get a Logged confirmation. If the product isn't in the database, the app opens Describe so you can name and estimate it instead. See Barcode scanning.
Snapping a meal photo
The Snap Meal button (and the camera toolbar button) opens Meal photo. Take a picture of your plate and the app analyzes it, then offers a list of candidate matches with their calories and macros. Pick the closest one to log it, or Retake to try another shot. See Meal photo AI.
The day's log
Everything you've logged is grouped into cards by meal (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack), in that order. Each entry shows its name, the time it was logged, and its calories. Tap the × beside an entry (or long-press it for the context menu) to remove it; the app asks "Strike this entry from the record?" before it deletes.
Each meal card has a bookmark button in its header (and a "Save as My Meal" option in its long-press menu) that turns that whole meal into a reusable template, prefilled and ready to name. See My Meals.
If a food you log is on your never-eat list, a Never-Eat Warning appears so you can catch it.
My Meals shortcut
When you have saved meals, a horizontal My Meals strip sits above the meal picker: each saved meal is a chip showing its name and calories, and tapping one logs the whole meal into the currently selected meal type in a single tap. All → opens the full My Meals list, as does the bookmark button in the toolbar.
Empty state and refresh
Before you log anything the day reads "Nothing Logged", with "Search a food, scan a barcode, or snap your plate." underneath. Pull down to refresh the day at any time. Logging fires a light haptic and a brief confirmation stamp.
