What do you mean by “Filter”? Do you mean you would like to see food insights on the actual items in your food diary in addition to the factors?

Exactly!

Yes, I also need to try and work out if particular food items are triggering symptoms but I can only look at the factors on the insights and graphs not the food in the diary

I would love this! and also I would love to be able to see how two food factor together influence my symptoms. I think it would be easiest in the graph, but right now I can only add one factor. I already know that if I eat to much of one thing its not good but i also want to see if different things together have an effect.

For instance if I order in a burger I will hit the factor gluten and order in. But gluten is used in a lot of other things where it might not cause a problem, and if I order in it isn’t always something with gluten.

This would be a huge aid for people doing an elimination diet to try and figure out what foods cause symptoms.

My ideal version of this feature would be: click on a particular food from a list, see each of its occurrences in a list with information following each entry to show what symptoms showed up in the first 6 hours, 2nd 6 hours, 12 hours 24 etc.

Food dye: Jan 6: anxious / insomnia / aggression Jan 9: insomnia Jan 10: n/a

Dairy: Jan 5: drowsy Jan 10: nausea / drowsy

I was going to suggest the same thing

I agree with the need to represent food items in insights. Maybe what I miss is the ability to compare in a graph just anything with anything (be it a factor, food item, mood, symptom,…) and not only three parameters at a time but more. Like for example I would have in one graph a factor, energy levels, total symptoms and then say four suspected food items so I can quickly see if any of them correlate. This might add to an already great customizability. But i can imagine this could be a graphical challenge to fit it on a small mobile screens though. Otherwise great app, thank you!

Adding my vote to graphing food diary entries as factors in some form. I’m using Bearable at my GI’s recommendation that I keep a log of foods, individual ingredients, and symptoms. I got the Bearable subscription because I thought the feature was hidden behind the paywall. Pretty bummed it’s not being considered as a feature yet. What’s the value in putting food entries into the diary if there’s no way to compare that information to anything?

Exactly the same for me too!

I spent awhile trying to decide the best food tracker for my GI diet (IBS) and ultimately chose Bearable, and then ultimately paid for Premium only because I thought the unlocked filters including specific items.

Very disappointed!

What is the point of adding the specific food items if we can’t track them? Can we even go back and look for them if we wanted to even do it manually?

Jumping on this train. Trying to track down digestion issues and was hoping this app would help with that.

Jumping on this train. Trying to track down digestion issues and was hoping this app would help with that.

Yes. People who need to correlate food and symptoms are a huge part of the population, and therefore could be customers if you did this. I’m one of them an I’m reconsidering getting this app, now realizing that it doesn’t do that.

One more upvote! I think this would make the app more powerful in the domain that most users use it for (tracking food and looking for outcomes)

Pro data scientist here. This is the main feature I wanted as I’m on a restricted diet for long covid. Trying to add foods back in is a pain to keep track of and I thought maybe this app was just the thing to help. It would be great if the diet section had the same charts as factors and would probably do the job. But I’m imagining it also having a hybrid of the one time events section as a panel, where the days after eating the food showed your scaled symptoms. Definitely a drop-down for the symptom selection, so it has more than mood. Adding stool scale to the drop down would probably be useful for those with IBS. Also having a slider for the number of days being averaged would be useful too since digestion is specific to the individual, though three days digestion would probably cover most people. Also maybe a selector for how far back foods entries are pulled for the # day average. So chicken from all time or just the last 30 days and then taking the # day average for those. That would allow people with lots of data to look at recent changes in food tolerances. So in summary this chart would have foods on the left, and symptom average in the right like the one time events tab but have a drop-down to change the symptoms being averaged and a slider to change the days being averaged. Possibly also a selector for recent data only. Honestly this one panel would give most of the diet info needed and as a bonus this same panel could replace the one time event section and make it much more robust by adding more symptoms and days to be averaged.

Pro data scientist here. This is the main feature I wanted as I’m on a restricted diet for long covid. Trying to add foods back in is a pain to keep track of and I thought maybe this app was just the thing to help. It would be great if the diet section had the same charts as factors and would probably do the job. But I’m imagining it also having a hybrid of the one time events section as a panel, where the days after eating the food showed your scaled symptoms. Definitely a drop-down for the symptom selection, so it has more than mood. Adding stool scale to the drop down would probably be useful for those with IBS. Also having a slider for the number of days being averaged would be useful too since digestion is specific to the individual, though three days digestion would probably cover most people. Also maybe a selector for how far back foods entries are pulled for the # day average. So chicken from all time or just the last 30 days and then taking the # day average for those. That would allow people with lots of data to look at recent changes in food tolerances. So in summary this chart would have foods on the left, and symptom average in the right like the one time events tab but have a drop-down to change the symptoms being averaged and a slider to change the days being averaged. Possibly also a selector for recent data only. Honestly this one panel would give most of the diet info needed and as a bonus this same panel could replace the one time event section and make it much more robust by adding more symptoms and days to be averaged.

I strongly agree! As several others described, this was the main feature I was expecting while signing up. I am right now using the free version, but I will gladly pay for premium if it includes this feature. Especially if it also tracks symptoms occurring day/days after intake!

We had a similar suggestion submitted by a member of the community:

“Food Effect Diary.

List what you ate all day to and have a statistics tracker so you can correlate it in patterns to see which foods contributed most often to matching to pain or mood or energy level etc days. The point is to detect a pattern of what foods are causing what by seeing correlations.”

Agreed!