How Pantry tracks Nutrition

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Pantry's nutrition tracking is a personal logging tool. When you mark an item as used, the app sums the calories, protein, carbs, and fat from that item into your daily totals. The numbers shown are based entirely on the data attached to each item, Pantry does not calculate recommended intake, set goals, or provide any medical or dietary advice.

Where the numbers come from

  • Scanned items — when you scan a barcode, Pantry looks the product up in Open Food Facts, a free, open, collaborative food database. The macros shown are the values that database has on file, usually transcribed from the product's nutrition label.
  • Manually added items — values you enter yourself, copied from the product label.
  • Manual meal logs — values you enter when logging a meal that isn't tied to a pantry item.

Pantry does not adjust, estimate, or derive nutrition values beyond multiplying the per-serving values by the number of servings you record as used.

Limitations

  • Open Food Facts is community-maintained. Entries can be incomplete, out of date, or wrong — especially for products from smaller brands.
  • Serving sizes from the database may differ from how much you actually ate.
  • Manually entered values are only as accurate as what you type in.

Not medical advice

The information shown in Pantry is for personal tracking only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition. If you are making decisions about your diet for health reasons, consult a qualified healthcare professional or registered dietitian.

For general background on nutrition and dietary patterns, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Health & Human Services publish the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The USDA also maintains FoodData Central, a public reference database for food composition data.

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