Metric offers several ways to record food: photo or text-assisted capture, nutrition search, manual or quick entry, and saved or recent meals. Calorie and macro goals, charts, and Cortex nutrition tools help organize those entries. The app does not make a photo into an exact measurement.
Choose the capture method that fits the meal
- Use assisted capture for a quick draft when approximate ingredients and portions are acceptable.
- Search or enter items manually when labels or measured portions are available.
- Reuse saved and recent meals to reduce repeated entry.
- Review calories, protein, carbohydrate, and fat before saving an AI-assisted result.
Current product boundary
This article does not claim that Metric currently offers barcode scanning, pantry management, calendar meal planning, or exact meal recognition. Those capabilities are not represented here as shipped features.
Use the trend, not a false decimal point
Restaurant recipes, cooking oils, mixed dishes, and visual portion estimates can introduce substantial uncertainty. Consistent approximate logging may still help some people review patterns, but it should not be presented as a precise account of intake or metabolism.
Wellness and editorial boundary
Metric is a wellness product. Its scores, AI responses, nutrition analyses, and wearable-derived values are informational estimates, not diagnoses or medical advice. Results depend on the data available and may be incomplete or inaccurate. Review source data and speak with a qualified professional about health concerns.
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- USDA FoodData CentralAuthoritative reference database for food-composition data