Universal workflow

Organize your food library

Keep favorites, collections, recent choices, recipes, and custom foods easy to find.

What the Food Library is for

The Food Library separates the bundled reference catalog from foods you intentionally keep. Search the catalog for source-backed nutrition, favorite useful results, organize them into Collections, and keep imported or user-added foods in your User Library for later review and logging.

iPhone

On iPhone, foods you add and import stay together for reuse.

iPad

iPad shows more of the searchable User Food Library at once.

Mac

On Mac, reviewed imports and foods you add become reusable library entries.

Browse categories and search

Categories provide a starting point when you do not know the exact name. Search narrows the visible library using the food name and indexed catalog information. Open a result before logging it; similar names can describe different products, portions, or sources.

Read a food detail

The detail screen preserves more than calories. Review Source Information, available serving choices, Macro Completeness, the macro split, the full nutrition list, and categories. Missing nutrients stay missing instead of being silently invented. Source and completeness context help you decide whether the record is the right match.

Confirm the food and serving basis

Review the available macros

Identity and serving context come first; nutrition detail explains what the selected record actually contains.

Use the macro split as a summary

Inspect the full available nutrition

The summary helps with scanning; the complete list is the place to verify individual values and notice missing fields.

Use Favorites

Select Favorites on a food you expect to reuse. Removing it from Favorites removes the shortcut, not the underlying catalog or User Library record. Favorites are for retrieval; they do not duplicate the food.

Favorites brings repeat choices into one focused list without copying their nutrition records.

Create and use Collections

1. Open a food and choose Collections.
2. Select an existing Collection or choose New Collection.
3. Name the Collection for how you actually retrieve foods, such as a meal pattern or household group.
4. Return to the Collections view to open the group and verify the food appears.

A food can remain a Favorite and belong to a Collection at the same time. Deleting a Collection should not be confused with deleting the food record itself.

Name a collection you will recognize

Add the current food

Collections organize references to foods. They do not change the foods or their nutrition.

Open the collection from the library

Choose a saved food to review or log

The collection is a retrieval tool: open it, select a food, then follow the normal review and logging flow.

Understand the User Library

The User Library contains foods you added or imported for personal reuse. That can include manually entered foods, reviewed recipe imports, and reviewed Open Food Facts imports. Open an item to inspect its stored source snapshot, serving information, and nutrition before logging it again.

Find foods you chose to keep

Recheck a recipe before reuse

User Library items remain reviewable. An imported recipe is not treated as more authoritative simply because it has already been saved.

iPhone and iPad

Open the Food Library from Today or Food Log, then move between the catalog, User Library, Collections, and Favorites. The iPhone flow favors one focused list or detail at a time. Landscape iPad keeps the surrounding Today workspace visible while providing more room for search results and nutrition detail.

On iPhone, foods you add and import stay together for reuse.

iPad shows more of the searchable User Food Library at once.

Mac

Use the larger Food Library workspace to browse saved choices while keeping more food detail visible beside the list. The Mac source grid also provides routes into URL import, dictation, photo-assisted discovery, and Open Food Facts. Every route ends in a food you review before accepting into the User Library.

Reviewed imports and foods you add become reusable library entries on Mac.