Keeping Tabs: Food Diary

A food diary that does not guess. Most trackers fill a gap with a zero. If a packet never declared its fibre, you are shown 0 g — and a day of those adds up to a number you can believe and should not. Keeping Tabs shows a dash instead, and goes on showing it until something declares otherwise. Absent is not zero. THE CATALOGUE IS ON YOUR PHONE 333,362 foods ship inside the app, 307,710 of them with nutrition recorded, weighted towards the shelves you actually stand in front of rather than a global average. A barcode scans and answers in a supermarket aisle with no signal, in a basement, on a plane. When a packet is not among them, Open Food Facts is asked — and only the barcode is sent, from a request carrying no account, no identifier and no cookies. You can switch that off. READ A LABEL Photograph the nutrition panel and it reads the figures off it. It also argues with them. Energy is…