Looking for a food and can't seem to find it in the food database? Carbon has you covered with the create food feature! Once you create a food using this feature, your input is saved to your account for future use and ease.
How to access the create food feature
There are two places in the app to access the create food feature.
Tapping the floating menu button in the bottom right corner of the diary tab and selecting "Create Food."
Tapping the blue "+" sign, like you would to add any food into your diary, then tapping on the three dots in the upper right corner and selecting "Create Food."
How to create a food
Name the food
Add the brand name (optional)
Tap on the blue “Scan Nutritional Label >” text in the middle of the screen.
Hold your phone over the nutrition label and wait for the scanner to detect the text.
You can move your phone closer or farther away to adjust the focus, or utilize the pinch (to zoom) and/or tap (to focus) functions when scanning the label.
The scanner will highlight the text it recognizes and fill in the fields accordingly.
Tap Update food to add the ingredients to your new or modified food item and return to the Create/Modify Food page.
Scroll down to edit any missing or incorrect information.
Choose the serving amount.
Choose the serving description.
Add a barcode to the food by tapping on the Barcode field and scanning the barcode.
Tap on Create to create your new food item.
You can also manually enter the information by:
Only entering the calories in "Calories (label)"
Enter the macros and Carbon calculate the calories (click here to learn more about our macro calories feature)
(optional): Input other nutritional information (ex: trans fat, fiber, sugar, vitamin A, etc.)
Click "create" in the top right corner
Once you have finished creating your food, Carbon will ask if you wish to add this food to your diary. To add it right then, select yes. If you choose not to, you can find the newly created food by tapping the blue "+" sign on the diary tab and selecting the "My Foods" section.