Foods and units
Your food list is the heart of AccuGo. Each food has a name, a serving definition (quantity and unit), an optional gram weight, and per-serving values for phenylalanine, methionine, protein, and calories. You only ever enter a food once — every later entry on a daily log just references it.
Creating a food
From the Search tab, tap + New Food, or from a daily log select a name that doesn't exist yet. You'll see a form with:
- Name
- Whatever you want to call it. Autocomplete uses this field across your whole list.
- Serving quantity and unit
- For example, "1 cup", "100 g", "2 tbsp". You can pick a unit from the picker, or switch to Abc mode to type your own (handy for "slice", "stick", or "bag"). The picker also offers conversions for common units.
- Serving Total Weight (g)
- Optional. If you know the gram weight of one serving (for example, from a nutrition label), enter it here. AccuGo uses this to convert when you log a quantity in grams later.
- Phe (mg) PKU
- Phenylalanine per serving in milligrams.
- Met (mg) HCU
- Methionine per serving in milligrams.
- Protein (g) Both
- Protein per serving in grams. Many people use protein as their primary tracking number.
- Calories (kcal) Both
- Energy per serving.
- Simplified PKU
- Toggle this on for items that fall under your "simplified diet" rules — typically free or near-free of phenylalanine. When the Simplified Diet setting is on, phenylalanine and protein for simplified items are counted as zero in summaries even if you've entered actual values.
- Share with Community
- If on, your food is contributed to the community database so other AccuGo users can search and use it. See Community foods.
Editing or deleting a food
Tap the disclosure (i) accessory next to any food in the Search results to edit it. The same screen has a trash button (top right) that deletes the food after confirmation. Existing daily entries that reference a deleted food are kept — their nutrient values were copied at log time, so they remain accurate.
Custom foods vs. community foods
A food you created yourself is a custom food. You can edit it freely. A food you added from the community database is also a custom food on your end (a local copy), so you can adjust nutrient values if your measured numbers differ from the original. Editing your copy does not change the community version.
Per-gram and per-unit numbers
AccuGo computes derived ratios for display:
- If you provided a weight, the app shows mg/g and (when applicable) grams per exchange.
- If you provided a unit count with a custom unit description, it shows mg per unit.
These show up in search results so you can compare similar items at a glance. They're calculated, not stored — you never have to enter them yourself.
Quantity vs. serving math
When you log a meal, you enter a quantity. AccuGo divides by the food's serving size and multiplies the per-serving nutrients accordingly. For example, if the food is "1 cup = 80 mg phe" and you log "0.5 cup", the entry gets 40 mg phe. If your quantity unit doesn't match the serving's unit, AccuGo uses the known unit-conversion table; if the units are incompatible, you'll be prompted.