Custom Food Form
This page will explain how to use the Custom Food Form in SparkyFitness. When you add a food, you'll have the option to add a custom food like here:
Choosing Custom Food will open a window where you can input a name, brand and both macronutrients and micronutrients
Named portions
On web and mobile, keep the label's reference serving (for example, 100 g) and enter its nutrients as usual. In Named portions, choose Add portion, enter a name such as packet, and enter the weight of one packet, for example 150 g. Save the food to keep both choices in the same library entry.
The portion's nutrients are calculated from the reference serving. If 100 g has 120 kcal, one 150 g packet has 180 kcal. When logging the food, select grams for an arbitrary weight or select packet (150 g) and enter the number of packets. Half a packet has 90 kcal; two packets have 360 kcal.
For a reference serving measured in volume, define portions in millilitres, for example bottle (500 ml). A weight reference needs a weight portion and a volume reference needs a volume portion. The app cannot convert between grams and millilitres without a known density.
Named portions and gram or millilitre quantities belong to one food; you do not need to create another food for each package size. Equivalent sizes remain available for alternate descriptions of the same nutrient amount, such as 1 packet = 2 pieces.
Notes
Foods and meals have an optional Notes field for the details you want to remember every time you log them — how you order a particular dish, a preparation tweak, or a full recipe.
Notes support Markdown. The editor has Write and Preview modes, plus buttons for bold, italic, links, code, and lists. A note can be up to 4,000 characters.
Where a note shows up:
- On the food or meal itself, whenever you edit it.
- Read-only while you are logging that food or meal, so the details are in front of you at the moment you need them.
- To anyone you share your food library with — they can read your notes but only you can change them.
Diary entries have their own separate note, for something specific to one occasion. It is never copied from the food's note, and editing one never changes the other. A note follows its entry when you copy entries to another day.