User`s guide

MyPersonalDiet for iPhone and iPod Touch User’s Guide 20
Enter Additional Servings
When entering a meal (see Figure 9), select the Servings button to enter extra
information for the meal:
• Amount of water servings you consumed (one serving is 1 cup or 250 ml).
• Extra calories (or kilojoules) for the meal. If all you want is to track is the
energetic value of a meal, you can simply enter it there, without providing
additional information. Note that the nutrients will remain zero for this meal.
• Additional servings for the meal (see Figure 17). This is useful when you eat a
meal composed of a variety of food items: instead of entering each of them
individually, you can estimate how many servings of each food group the
meal is composed of, and only enter the servings. MyPersonalDiet uses
average energetic values per food group serving, as displayed in following
table (values are rounded for simplicity)
Food group
Total cal.
Cal. from carbs
Cal. from prot.
Cal from fats
Starch (grains)
90
68
8
14
Protein
179
29
56
94
Fruit
98
90
3
5
Vegetables
69
52
8
9
Dairy
102
16
27
59
Fats, oils, etc.
108
31
4
73
Table 1: Energetic values per food group (per serving).
Figure 17: You can enter extra servings (in addition to the specific food items) when entering a
meals. This is especially useful when eating a meal composed of a mix of various foods.