User`s guide

MyPersonalDiet for iPhone and iPod Touch User’s Guide 19
Entering Your Own Food Items
You can add your own food items by tapping the Add button in the Food Browser.
This shows the Custom Food screen (Figure 16). Enter the name, select a category (the
Category screen lets you add your own), select the default serving size (e.g. 100 g, 1 cup,
etc.), the calories (or kJ) for that serving, the nutrients and a note if desired.
Note
When entering the serving size, make sure to enter the weight, not the volume. For
instance, a cup (volume) of cereals is approx. 2 oz (weight), so 2 oz must be entered, not
1 cup. The weight is required to properly calculate nutritional information. Food labels
always show the serving size in weight (and sometimes, also the volume).
Choose the Calculator button to calculate the energy based on the nutrients you’ve
entered. The calculation is based on 4 calories per gram of Total Carbs and Protein, and 9
calories per gram of Total Fat.
Figure 16: The Custom Food screen allows you to enter you own food items.
You can enter your own category and all the nutrients of the food item.
Form the Food Browser, you can create a custom food as a copy of the selected food item
by tapping the Copy button . Food items from the database cannot be changed, but you
can copy them into custom foods and adjust them as needed.
You can choose to enter
the nutrients by weight (g
or mg), or by percent
daily value (%DV)
Nutrients are listed in the
same order than you find
on US food labels.