The first time you need to accept the license conditions. After scrolling down, you can chose ‘Ok’.

Then it will read the complete food composition table that is built in. This may take a minute.

If you use a touchscreen phone, then touch the screen once. The application will detect that you use a touchscreen phone. Where necessary, a keyboard will be displayed that you can use the enter characters. You can also resize the keyboard, or hide it.  

After having selected a food item, you can choose the amount. The unit is shown and is always 'gram' for the standard fooddatabase.

Example, assume the selected food item is 'Bread White', press on numeric key '6' and then '0'. The application will immediately count the amount of carbs (gram) for 60 grams of 'Bread White' and show the result. Also the amount of proteins, fat and kilocalories are calculated. For these elements, only the total amounts are shown, being the total for all the food items that have been selected by you and added to the list with your chosen amounts. If not all information can be shown on one screen, a scrollbar will appear on the right. Use keys 'UP' and 'DOWN' to scroll.

It is also possible to enter digits after the decimal point (eg 0,5 piece of apple, assuming an apple would be there with unit 'piece' – which is not the case in the standard table). Choose game button 'RIGHT', and the cursor will move to the decimal part, choose game button 'LEFT' and the cursor moves back to the Integer part. Chosing game button 'LEFT' also removes already entered digits.

Once you've chosen the amount, you can add the food item to a list by choosing option 'Add'.

From the first screen, using option 'Show current total' and you can see the total amounts of carbohydrates, fats, porteins and kilocalories for the chosen food items and amounts in the list. Remark : whenever the source fooddatabase contains no value for proteins, fats or kilocalories for one of the items in the list of chosen items, then the totals are not calculated.

The amount of insuline needed is also shown here, based on the personal carbohydrate-to-insulin ratio (see Settings).

Option ‘% carbs’ calculates the percentage of carbs in the list of food items selected. This can be useful  when calculating the amounts of carbs in a receipt. This calculation is correct only if all items added to the list use ‘grams’ as unit.

With this option you can view the list of food items selected so far with the amounts. It's possible to modify one of the amounts : scroll 'UP' or 'DOWN' to scroll to the item you want to change, press 'SELECT', now you can change the amount. Choose 'Save' to store the new amount or 'back' to cancel.

With this option you remove the food items that you selected and have added to the list. You do this typically at start of a new meal.

1. -carb-to-insulin ratio : what you enter is the amount of grams of carbohydrates that you can have per unit of insuline. This you can do for breakfast, dinner, snack, supper. The application uses the Rule of Three to calculate the needed amount of insulin. If you need more insulin for the same amount of carbohydrates, you'll need to decrease the values that are entered here.
   

1. -Set the times you switch from breakfast to dinner, dinner to snack, snack to supper. The application will use these times to use the correct value of amounts of carbohydates per unit insuline.
   If you always want to use the same value of carbs per unit of insulin , no matter the time, then you can set these values respectively to 23:57, 23:58 and 23:59 (assuming you're not having supper or dinner at 23:57 or 23:59)
   

1. -Font size : This is to set the size of the font in the application. Changing this value does not always work, this is device dependent.
   

1. -Detailed calculation for : Choose for which column you want to see detailed calculation in the screen ‘Add’.
   

1. -Remove the list at startup of the application ? Each time you start the application, it will check if your list of food items is empty. If it is not empty, you can chose to delete it : ‘Always’, ‘Never, ‘Ask’.
   

1. -Speed of Search : this is a setting which allows to take into account the different capacities of cellular phones. The initial value is calculated during installation. If the searching does not work well, set it to a lower value.

HelpDiabetes 2.3

carb counter on your cellular phone

With this option you can add an own food item to the list (not to the permanent food composition table).

Enter

1. -Name : chose any name
   

2. -Percentage of carbs : enter the percentage of carbohydrates in the food item.
   

3. -Amount in grams : enter the amount that you will have in your meal