Extra nutrients and the annual Diary

PlateLens PRO adds soluble fiber, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, total unsaturated fat, caffeine and EPA+DHA omega-3 to the mobile and web apps. Review them on Home or Today, in Diary, meal details and individual ingredients, and include them in your nutrition PDF. The annual Diary also keeps calories and the three macros available without PRO.

What the six measurements mean

• Soluble fiber (g): part of total fiber, not extra fiber to add to it.
• Monounsaturated fat (g) and polyunsaturated fat (g): two components of the fat in your food.
• Unsaturated fat (g): calculated from those two components for each ingredient with both estimates. Do not add it to them again.
• Caffeine (mg): the estimated amount in the recorded food or drink.
• EPA+DHA (mg): these two omega-3 fatty acids together. This is part of total omega-3, not a substitute for it.

Total, added and free sugars

Total sugars include the sugar naturally present in whole fruit and milk, as well as added sugar. Added sugars describe the sugar added during preparation or manufacture. Free sugars include added sugars and the sugars in honey, syrups, fruit juice and juice concentrates. Sugar inside whole fruit and the natural lactose in plain milk or yogurt are outside that free-sugar category. A juice can therefore have free sugars while having no added sugar.

Total and added sugars show their recorded grams without an automatic maximum. An explicitly saved personal limit still applies. The separate Free sugars PRO gauge uses grams and a maximum: 100% is a ceiling, not an amount to reach. Its automatic reference is 10% of your base calorie target, divided by 4 kcal per gram; a 1,700 kcal target gives 42.5 g. Activity calories do not increase that reference. You can set a personal maximum in the nutrient’s target editor and return to the automatic reference there.

The WHO guidance recommends keeping free sugars below 10% of energy intake and suggests a further reduction below 5%. PlateLens uses your base calorie goal to turn that daily guidance into a tracking reference. It is not a fruit allowance or a personalized medical prescription.

On mobile and web, select Free sugars with the other gauges; it also appears in Blood health in nutrition detail. Open the gauge for contributing meals, information and target controls, or open a meal or ingredient for its recorded estimate. Day, week, month, year and nutrition PDF views use the same data and coverage rules. A food label’s total-sugar figure alone does not establish its free-sugar content. Existing meals retain their available data, and reused meals do not receive a new analysis just because a nutrient is missing.

Sugars in the meal’s Health Score

The meal’s Health Score evaluates free sugars when enough information is available. It does not substitute total sugar or subtract fiber from free sugars. Whole fruit and plain yogurt therefore do not receive a sugar penalty merely for their natural sugar; juice and the added sugar in sweetened yogurt are treated according to their free-sugar estimate. Open About Health Score on mobile or See score breakdown on web for the explanation of the available factors.

The same scoring criterion applies when you open a historical meal. A missing estimate is left unevaluated; PlateLens does not reanalyse the meal automatically. Your saved calories and nutrients stay as recorded. The meal score is separate from Daily Score and League scoring, and changing a personal sugar limit does not improve a meal’s score.

Choose the gauges you want

On mobile: choose Customize beside the Home gauges to select nutrients and save their order. Home nutrient gauges, including calories and macros, show the daily percentage together with the recorded amount and its unit when available. You can read both without opening the detail. Each nutrient keeps its identifying color across Home, details, period tables, web and supported Watch views; that color does not mean a target has been met.

In the daily Diary, a meal or an ingredient, use the existing Health and Micronutrients groups. At the standard text size, they show three rings per row, like the macros, and open with just the first row. Health starts with saturated fat, sodium and fiber; Micronutrients starts with vitamins A, C and D. Tap Show more below that row to reveal the remaining nutrients, and Show less to return to the compact view. Larger text sizes adapt the number of columns. Health also includes soluble fiber, mono-, poly- and total unsaturated fats, and caffeine; EPA+DHA appears beside omega-3 in Micronutrients.

Tap a Home or Diary gauge to inspect the meals contributing to it. In that detail, open … → About [nutrient] for its explanation, reference and source. Tapping a nutrient in a meal or ingredient opens its educational detail directly. In the week, month and year tables, tap a nutrient’s name to open the same educational detail; the weekly bars still open the corresponding day. These details use the same cards as other nutrients and explain units, how the amount is estimated or calculated, and measurement coverage.

On web: open Today → Your day at a glance → Customize to choose your gauges. Open a metric card to inspect its contributing meals; the help inside that detail explains the reference. Meal and ingredient cards also lead to the nutrient’s detail or guide. See Home customization for the account layout settings.

What 100% means

A percentage compares recorded intake with a reference. Your saved personal reference takes precedence. Today uses your current references; a closed day keeps the ones recorded for it, and a week, month or year averages each day’s own reference over the days it counts. The adult defaults are 10 g for soluble fiber as a practical reference, 400 mg for caffeine as an upper reference, and 250 mg for EPA+DHA. They are not a prescription, a guarantee of safety or a reason to aim for the caffeine ceiling. Automatic adult references are omitted for profiles with a known age below 18.

Each fat percentage uses your effective total daily fat budget. On Home/Today, this is the same fat budget used by your daily targets, including activity adjustments when enabled. A closed day uses the fat budget recorded for it. A saved personal reference for that nutrient takes precedence. There is no separate universal target for each fat subtype. Reaching 100% for mono, poly or unsaturated fat is not a success goal; the same fat can appear in a component and its sum. Open the help or Targets to review the reference before interpreting a percentage.

On mobile, the … menu in a Home or Diary nutrient detail also opens its personal target. On the web, you can open Targets from any nutrient article in Learn. For nutrients such as vitamin D, Set a personal target or Change personal target opens that nutrient’s editor; macro articles open the daily targets section.

Complete, partial and missing data

A recorded zero means an estimate of zero. A dash or missing value means PlateLens does not have an estimate. Partial means only some recorded ingredients or meals contribute to the shown subtotal. When a reference is available, the gauge shows that known subtotal as a percentage using the nutrient’s own color. On mobile, the contributor detail explains partial data without adding another label below the circle. It does not mark a target as achieved. If the known subtotal already exceeds an upper limit, such as caffeine, the warning is red even while the data is partial. A missing measurement stays a dash. The subtotal is not your complete intake. Daily averages in nutrient period views and reports use only days where every recorded meal has that nutrient measured; unlogged days are not counted as zero. Complete measurement coverage still cannot prove that every food eaten was logged.

Existing meals keep their recorded values, including missing estimates, when you open or reuse them. Changing a portion scales the estimates that are available; an edit that changes the food can invalidate estimates that no longer fit. An AI correction with Fix it produces new nutrient estimates for the corrected meal. Review its ingredients, preparation and portion, then reopen the metric. Other meals in your history remain unchanged, and an assumed zero should not replace a missing estimate.

Photo, voice, text, barcode and reused meals

A new AI analysis estimates a numeric amount for each nutrient in every ingredient, using the food, portion and preparation information available. This includes a best estimate when the exact recipe is unknown, and zero when the nutrient is estimated to be absent. These are estimates, not direct measurements of composition. A missing nutrient on a product label does not by itself establish zero; product analyses also use the available food context. Saved and Recent reuse recorded estimates and scale them with the logged portion, so an existing missing value can remain missing. See nutrition data sources and portions and corrections.

Review a year or download a PDF

On mobile, open Diary → Year beside the day, week and month views. Use the arrows to choose a year, then keep the whole-year view or select one of its twelve months. Open the selected month to reach the monthly Diary, where you can choose an individual day. Calories and macros remain available on Free; the health, blood and micronutrient sections require PRO.

In the web app, open Diary → Year, choose a year and a metric, then open a month for detail. The twelve month rows show recorded totals, available daily averages and measurement coverage. The current year stops at today in your account time zone. This nutrition view uses logged meals; it is separate from the day inclusion rules in Balance.

Choose the PDF content

Use the report export in the mobile Diary, or Reports → Nutrition PDF on the web. Choose a week, month, year or a custom date range of up to 366 days, then select English or Spanish. The same PDF can summarize progress and show the daily food journal for a healthcare appointment. Each closed day is compared with the targets and references recorded for it, and week, month, year and range figures average those daily values.

Advanced options starts collapsed. Open it to choose the summary, daily food journal, nutrition, eating habits, hydration, activity and energy balance, your expenditure, weight, body scans, glucose, alcohol, and comparisons and observations. All sections start selected; sections without relevant data are omitted, and selecting a section does not turn on its tracking feature. You can also choose the journal’s protein, carbohydrate and fat columns, and whether to include body-scan images. Calories remain in the journal. At least one section must be selected.

After a PDF is generated successfully, PlateLens remembers its content options in your account for the next export on mobile or web. Closing the options without exporting, cancelling, or a failed generation does not save a new selection. Select all restores the full content selection. Dates are chosen separately for each report.

The daily food journal groups recorded meals by day, with their recorded consumption time, meal type, description, calories and selected macros in grams. Each day has its recorded totals and available fluid information. Missing times and meal types stay unrecorded; exporting does not guess them or reanalyse meals. Days with fluid records can appear even without meals. Recorded beverages and water estimated from food are distinguished rather than presented as the same amount of liquid drunk.

PRO nutrition sections include the fat and fiber block, caffeine and EPA+DHA, measurement coverage and the largest recorded meal and ingredient contributions. Annual reports also support the daily journal and content options. A comparison appears only when comparable measured data exists. PDF exports are available on mobile and web; the Apple Watch does not generate these reports.

On mobile, after choosing Generate PDF: a compact dialog shows the current export phase and progress, using the same controls as individual and comparison body-scan PDFs. Keep PlateLens open until the report is ready. Choose Cancel and confirm to stop exporting; this does not delete meals, scans or other saved data. A cancelled report does not open later. The finished PDF opens in preview, where you can save or share it; if generation fails, choose Try again. The temporary app file is removed after the preview closes and any active share finishes. Copies you save or send remain at their destination.

If none of the selected sections has data, choose another period or include a section with recorded data. An unusually large report can exceed its processing limit: use a shorter range or the full JSON account export. Reopen the view after correcting, moving or deleting a meal to refresh its result. If preferences cannot be saved, the generated PDF remains available.

Energy and alcohol in nutrition reports

Weekly and monthly reports show Energy Distribution: how the period's calories divide between protein, carbohydrates, fat and the alcohol in alcoholic drinks, plus other energy when its share of the period rounds to 1% or more. Its percentages add up to 100.

After the energy balance, a Your expenditure section says where the period's expenditure came from: your dynamic expenditure with the weekly updates published during the period and the latest reason it changed, your measured basal metabolism, or the estimate from your profile while PlateLens was learning it. When no counted day used your dynamic expenditure or your measurement and no learning week was published during the period, the section is left out. See how we calculate your expenditure.

With alcohol tracking on, weekly, monthly and annual reports add an Alcohol section in grams: the period's total, the days with alcohol, the days above your daily limit or the reference, the highest day (the highest month in the annual report), the average per day with data and your top drinks. The weekly and monthly sections show each day, the monthly section adds each week and the annual section each month. Days without alcohol data read No data and never count as days without alcohol; a total that includes them, or a drink without an estimate, reads at least. In the glucose appendix, a meal event with drinks shows its approximate alcohol.

Food cholesterol and blood cholesterol

Dietary cholesterol, saturated fat and total fiber remain available alongside the extra nutrients. You can choose them together when reviewing your food with a health professional. Food cholesterol in milligrams is not a blood cholesterol reading: these gauges do not calculate LDL or HDL, diagnose a condition or predict how a meal will change a blood test. Keep any clinician-agreed personal targets distinct from the app's general references.

PRO access and your data

On mobile, Free accounts see a blurred preview and a button to open the PRO offer in Health, Blood health and Micronutrients. The basic calorie and macro gauges remain available. Opening the offer does not change your plan by itself.

New AI scans on the Free plan also estimate and save these nutrients, including zero estimates. These nutrient amounts remain estimates on every plan. PlateLens calculates total unsaturated fat from the matching ingredient estimates; this total is derived rather than requested as another independent AI estimate. PRO is required to view these measurements and their nutrition reports. Activating PRO makes compatible saved estimates available without rescanning; a lapse does not delete recorded estimates or personal references. Your own JSON account export includes available recorded nutrition and coverage even when PRO is inactive. Missing information stays missing in the export.

Reference sources

The help links the sources behind the current defaults: NHLBI TLC and soluble fiber, FDA caffeine information, EFSA dietary fat references and the FDA total-fat Daily Value.