Diabetes Carb Counter for Type 1 Diabetics

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Diabetes Carb Counter

This application uses the USDA nutrition database and the USDA Branded Food Products database as sources of carbohydrates and other nutrients. This app is primarily for Type 1 diabetics. It displays the carbohydrates for the amount you want to consume at snack time or the meal. The nutrients button shows other nutrients besides carbohydrates, including total fat. You can use it for Type 2 diabetics, but it does not save daily food items or calculate insulin.

• Primarily for Type 1 diabetics.
• Uses a local USDA Nutrition database with over 8,700 food items updated every year.
• Uses the internet to search the USDA Branded Food Products database with over 210,000 food items updated continuously.
• Works offline, does not need internet access. Internet access for app can be turned off.
• Email your user database or a single food item to anyone and then download the database to their phone or yours.
• Basic use is on one page. Other less used pages are nutrients, settings, and help.
• Loads fast and local searches are finished in less than a second. Internet searches may take several seconds.
• Help page has an index to help find topics and can be set as a half page help on main screen.
• Portrait display only so display does not rotate when you lay it down.
• Fast searches with words in any order.
• Saves your searches for easy reuse.
• Use English or metric units or both in meals and recipes.
• You can use weight or volume units for most food items.
• You can use fractions or decimals.
• Has a numeric calculator and conversion calculator that can use fractions as well as decimals.
• Enter a single food item, meal or recipe.
• Save your food item, meal or recipe to a local database.
• Shows many other nutrients: Fiber, Calories, Total fat, Saturated fat, Monounsaturated fat, Polyunsaturated fat, Sodium, Sugar, Cholesterol, and Protein.
• Requires two permissions to save files and allow internet access.

If you have a food item that is not in the USDA database, you can enter your own and save it to the user database. The minimum required data is serving size, carbohydrates per serving, and the amount you want. You can enter other nutrients if you wish and save it to the user database.

If you have multiple items for a meal, or have a recipe you want to enter, you can enter the ingredients to get the total carbohydrates. You can save this to the user database with any name you want. The recipe ingredients are shown at the bottom of the screen and saved with the item you save. You can use metric or English units and mix them in a recipe.

Most items in the USDA database have weight and volume units as well as descriptions that are not units. A good example is Apples, raw, fuji, with skin which has two descriptions, 1 cup sliced and 1 large. If you select 1 cup sliced, the units will be cup so you can use a measuring cup or tablespoons or liters, while if you select 1 large, the units will be large. You could select 2 large for two apples or 1/2 large for half an apple.

For food items not in the local database or in the online USDA Branded food product database, you will have to search the manufacturers web site. If you expect to use this food item again, save the food item to the user database which is searched along with the USDA database.

A cooking database was extracted from the USDA database and put at the beginning of the search so that if you search for salt, you will find Salt, table near the top of the screen instead of tens of screens later, since the word salt is in many descriptions.

There is a miscellaneous database that includes food items and recipes that we have entered for our granddaughter. It does not have all the nutrients or show the recipe for all items.

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Nov. 5, 2019

Diabetes Carb Counter for Type 1 Diabetics

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