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 web app. Review them in Today, 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.

Choose the gauges you want

On web Today → Your day at a glance → Customize, select the nutrients and save their order. Open a metric card to inspect its contributing meals. Inside that detail, use ? for units, calculation, limitations and the source of its reference. Open a meal and then an ingredient to see where an estimate comes from. See Home customization for the account layout settings.

What 100% means

A percentage compares recorded intake with a current reference. Your saved personal reference takes precedence. 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 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.

You can also open Targets from any nutrient article in Learn. For nutrients such as vitamin D, Set a 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 web gauge shows that known subtotal as a percentage, with a neutral ring and a Partial label. 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 are preserved and are not automatically rescanned. Older meals and product labels may lack these values. After a portion or ingredient correction, related estimates are recalculated when compatible information exists. If an older edit leaves estimates incompatible with the meal, they become missing. Review the ingredient list and portion, use Fix it for a real correction, then reopen the metric; do not enter an assumed zero to remove a missing label.

Photo, voice, text, barcode and reused meals

The nutrient estimate belongs to the ingredients regardless of how you logged the meal. A photo, voice description or text may provide enough context for an estimate, but cannot measure composition directly. Barcode data depends on the product information available; a missing label field does not prove absence. Saved and Recent reuse the recorded estimates and scale them with the logged portion. None of these methods guarantees that every nutrient is available. See nutrition data sources and portions and corrections.

Review a year or download a PDF

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.

Open Reports → Nutrition PDF and choose a week, month or year. PRO reports include the fat and fiber block, caffeine and EPA+DHA, coverage and the largest recorded meal and ingredient contributions. The annual PDF adds a month overview and a nutrient appendix; a comparison with the previous completed year appears only when comparable measured data exists. References are your current settings when the PDF is generated, not historical prescriptions. PDFs are available in English and Spanish.

An unusually large year can exceed the report's processing limit. PlateLens shows an error instead of returning an incomplete total; use a monthly report or your full JSON account export. Reopen the view after correcting, moving or deleting a meal to refresh its result.

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

Scans on the Free plan also estimate and save the five base nutrients when there is enough information. PlateLens calculates total unsaturated fat from the matching ingredient estimates; it does not ask the AI for a separate sixth 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.