App Profile: 5 Nutrients Counter & Tracker

Use this app to control carb, saturated fat, fiber, protein and calorie intake to protect from or manage obesity, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, high LDL cholesterol and cardiovascular disease, some cancers, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's dementia and Parkinson's disease, and mental health illnesses including depression, anxiety, autism and schizophrenia.
Set daily calorie, carb, saturated fat, fiber & protein targets based on guidance provided in the app and your preferences for weights of food (g or oz) and display of nutrient content in foods and beverages (ie, %target/serving, g (or kcal)/100g or g (or kcal)/1oz, or %target/100g or %target/1oz). You can change the targets at any time as you wish or as advised by a healthcare provider.
Record food and beverage consumption using the barcode scanner, dictation, search or by favoriting foods and using the serving sizes provided, which can be changed at any time. Tap the notepad to add notes.
Monitor daily and long-term progress, export data to share with healthcare providers, synchronize data with other First Line Medical Communications Ltd nutrient counter apps, and share data with Apple's HealthKit.
Add your own foods and recipes and change serving sizes to personalize the app's 400-item database for you.
All food and beverage popups indicate whether the item is a plant, good prebiotic, probiotic or ultra-processed food (UPF) to inform a healthy diet and whether they are high or low FODMAP per serving where data are available to support people with irritable bowel syndrome.
The app provides nutritional information for many healthy foods and supports a healthy gut microbiome diet using color-coded type and icons as follows:
1. Plants that can be included as one of the 30 different types of plants per week recommended by experts for a healthy gut microbiome are in green type with a green leaf icon in the food popups. The most prebiotic plants (ie, those that are particularly beneficial for the gut microbiome) are in a darker green type.
2. Fermented foods that contain beneficial live microbes to become part of the gut microbiome (probiotics) are in gold type with a gold microbe icon in the food popups.
3. Foods that are likely to be ultra-processed (UPFs) — ie, contain ingredients not found in a home kitchen (eg, preservatives, flavorings, and emulsifiers) likely to harm the gut microbiome are in red type with a red warning triangle in the food popups. UPFs cause obesity for a variety of reasons and their harmful effect on the gut microbiome is linked to inflammation, type 2 diabetes, high LDL "bad" cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, inflammatory diseases, cancer, depression, Alzheimer's dementia and Parkinson's disease.
4. Foods that are neither plant, prebiotic, probiotic nor UPF are in black type and are healthy when consumed as part of a healthy diet.