Eating too much saturated fat increases blood LDL cholesterol resulting in angina, heart attack, and stroke and circulatory disorders. Eating too much saturated fat is also a cause of obesity, and obesity-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, some cancers, inflammatory diseases. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), 2020–2025 therefore recommend that saturated fat should provide no more than 10% of calories for everyone over 2 years of age.
Choose and set your target daily saturated fat intake based on your RDA calorie intake calculated by the app based on your age and sex. Both calorie and saturated fat targets can be changed at any time.
Watch your progress towards your target daily intake in real-time as you use the keypad or speech recognition if available (touch the microphone icon) to record your food and beverage intake.
You can also view your progress over time on the Month view dashboard, and export food diaries into a spreadsheet for your own information or to share with healthcare providers.
Apple's HealthKit functionality is integrated in the app's user interface so you can share your data with Apple's Health app. You can also synchronize the app with all your Apple devices.
The foods and amounts you eat can be recorded easily and quickly using speech recognition or by favoriting foods and using the serving sizes provided (which you can change to your serving sizes if different).
Add your own branded or other foods and recipes to the 325+ common foods and drinks and 10 recipes already loaded into the app
Also useful nutritional information via the Info tab.
The interface is easy, quick, and intuitive to navigate, but it can be useful to familiarise yourself with the full functionality of the app by touching the icons, words, and bars on every screen and swiping left and right on the Tracker screen.
No internet, registration, personal details or additional payments are required.