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Food logging and barcode scanning
How clients log food: a built-in UK food database with supermarket products, barcode scanning, saved foods, and water tracking.
On this page
Clients who log food do it in the Tyzra app, with no second tracking app. (Clients on a plan-only setup tick off their meals instead.)
Food search
When a client searches for a food, Tyzra searches four sources at once:
- Your custom foods
- Your recipes
- The client's own saved foods
- Tyzra's UK food database - about 130,000 packaged products from UK supermarkets and brands, plus around 2,900 everyday foods like "Bananas, flesh only" or "Chicken, breast, grilled"
Coach-created foods surface first, so the plan's staples are always one tap away.
Naming a supermarket narrows the results to it: "tesco greek yoghurt" shows Tesco's own yoghurts first, and "M&S percy pigs" finds exactly that. UK and US spellings match each other, so "yoghurt" finds "yogurt" and "courgette" finds "zucchini". Packaged products open on the serving printed on the pack, such as "1 bar (55 g)", with grams one tap away.
Barcode scanning
For packaged food, clients scan the barcode instead of typing. Tyzra checks their saved foods first, then the UK food database, then Open Food Facts for products added since the last update, and fills in per-serving macros when the pack states a serving (per 100g when it doesn't).
Saved and recent foods
The last 20 logged foods sit under Recents, and clients can keep up to 1,000 saved foods for their rotation.
Water
Water logging is one tap: quick-add buttons for 250ml, 500ml, and 1L against the daily target you set.
What you see
What a client logs shows on their Nutrition tab, by day and by week against their plan, and in the check-in review for the days it covers. If a client's numbers look odd, open the day and see exactly what was logged.
Where the food data comes from
Packaged products come from Open Food Facts, made available under the Open Database License. Everyday foods come from McCance and Widdowson's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset, which contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Tyzra keeps only products with complete, consistent nutrition labels and refreshes the database from these sources periodically.