Custom food database and recipe builder for personal nutrition
Calora custom food and recipe features let users define their own entries and build reusable recipes with automatic calorie and macro totals, making repeat meals and home cooking much faster to log.
Why a personal food database reduces friction
Generic food databases often miss local brands, regional dishes, or home-cooked meals with specific ingredients. That forces users to estimate or use the closest available match, which lowers accuracy and trust in the log.
A custom food database solves this by letting users define their own entries once, then reuse them instantly in future logs.
- Add brand name, serving size, and full macro breakdown
- Custom foods appear in search alongside the standard database
- Edit or delete custom entries at any time
Building and reusing recipes
The recipe builder lets users assemble a list of ingredients and automatically calculates the total calorie and macro content for the whole recipe. Once saved, the recipe appears as a single log entry, making meal prep and batch cooking straightforward to track.
This is especially useful for users who cook the same meals weekly and want accurate logging without re-entering every ingredient every time.
- Add ingredients from the database or custom foods
- Automatic calorie and macro totals for the full recipe
- Log the whole recipe as one entry or adjust serving size
How this fits into daily logging
Custom foods and recipes are integrated into the same search and add flow used for all other entries. There is no separate app or mode; users search, find their custom entry, and add it the same way they would add any other food.
Over time, frequent custom entries surface through the reusable foods list, which makes the personal database progressively faster to use the longer someone tracks in Calora.
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