PAC-DIARI · Food (formerly PAC-NUTRI)

Log what you eat, step by step.

From your first meal to the PDF report for your appointment.

Before you start

The first time, the app asks for your year of birth, weight, height, activity and goal, and what you want to keep an eye on (diabetes, cholesterol, weight or blood pressure). From this it calculates indicative daily targets, which you can change in Settings → My profile.

  • Search
  • Barcode
  • Label
  • Dishes and recipes
  • Fasting
  • PDF reports

At the bottom is the navigation bar, as in PAC-SALUT: Records, Charts, Reports and Settings. At the top, the ? icon opens help and this manual; Charts and Reports also have the PDF icon. Change the language in Settings → Language.

In this guide

1Records

The day’s summary

At the top you see energy, carbohydrates, protein and fat against your targets. The pie chart shows how energy is split, with the percentage of each part.

Use the arrows to go to the previous or next day. All nutrients opens the detail with minerals and vitamins. The calendar icon at the top opens History.

Today screen

Meals

Only meals that have foods are shown (breakfast, lunch, snack…). To add another one, use Add to… at the end of the list.

Each meal has four buttons: chart, same time (only if entries have different times), copy and + to add a food at the same time.

Chart for each meal

The chart button expands that meal’s pie chart and what percentage of the day’s energy it represents, with sugars, saturated fat and salt. This shows which meal is pushing you over.

Expanded meal chart

2Adding what you eat

Three ways

Tap the round + button (bottom right of Records) (or a meal’s +) and choose:

  • Search: type the name in any language (chicken, pollo, pollastre, oilaskoa).
  • Barcode: scan the barcode with the camera.
  • Label: copy the nutrition table from the pack.

Search

Generic foods come from the official Anses-Ciqual 2025 table. Items you have saved (products and recipes) appear first.

If you can’t find it, tap Create “…” from the label.

Search results

Barcode

Point the camera at the code. If the product is in Open Food Facts, its values are loaded; compare them with the label and correct anything needed before saving.

Open Food Facts is a collaborative database: always check the values. Once saved, the product stays on your device.

Barcode tab

Label

Copy the values per 100 g or 100 ml. If the label gives kJ or salt, the app converts to kcal and sodium. You can enter the weight of one unit (a biscuit, a slice) to log it by units.

Nutrition label form

3Amounts: grams or units

Choosing the amount

If the product has a unit weight or a pack serving, By pieces opens: use − and + to choose how many you eat and the app calculates the grams.

With By weight you type the grams. The table shows the nutrients for the chosen amount, including carb exchanges (10 g).

Amount by units

Changing it later

In the meal editor, the button next to the amount (g or the unit name) switches between grams and units: 40.5 g ↔ 3 biscuits.

Saved instantly

Each food is logged as soon as you tap Add: there is nothing to save at the end. At the top you choose the meal and time, and you can add another one straight away.

If you made a mistake, tap Undo in the notice or the ✕ in the list. When you finish, tap Done.

Tapping a food in “Recent” adds it straight away with the same amount as last time.

Foods saved as they are added

Usual meals

If a meal repeats (e.g. breakfast: juice, omelette, bread and oil), tap Save as usual meal after adding it, or the ⇄ icon of the label in Today.

Next day you will find it above the search box: tap it, adjust the amounts or untick what you didn’t have, and Add. Manage them in Settings → Usual meals.

Usual meal with editable amounts

4Dishes and recipes

It’s a dish

When a meal has several ingredients (a vegetable soup with chicken), turn on It’s a dish and give it a name. It will show as a single line in the day, with the total weight and kcal.

Leave Also save as a recipe ticked to reuse it.

It’s a dish switch in the editor

Reusing a recipe

Search for the recipe by name in a new meal. The ingredients are loaded scaled to the amount you eat and you can change any of them, for example the chicken.

If you want the saved recipe to change too, tick Also update the saved recipe.

If you cook the whole pot, include the water too (0 kcal) or enter the final weight in Settings → Recipes, so the value per 100 g is that of the cooked dish.

Tap to correct

Tap a food in Today and it opens with the amount ready to change (in grams or units); tap Save. The bin removes it and ··· opens the detail, where you can change the date and time, copy or delete.

Tap a dish to open its ingredients: you can change, for example, just the chicken in the soup.

Tap a meal’s name (Breakfast, Lunch…) to fold it so only the summary line remains. The app remembers how you left it.

Dish detail

5Copying and times

Copy

A meal’s copy button (or Copy day) opens a dialog where you choose:

  • the date: yesterday, today, tomorrow or any date;
  • the time: the original one, now or a specific time;
  • where it goes: the same meal or another one;
  • which foods to copy.

Nothing is copied until you tap the “Copy” button.

Copy dialog

Same time

If a meal has foods at different times, the clock button sets them all to the same time. Foods you add with a meal’s + take that meal’s time.

6History and fasting

History

Opens from the calendar icon in Records. Shows the average of the last few days and the list of days with entries. Tap a day to go to it.

Intermittent fasting

From History, Intermittent fasting shows for each day the longest fast between two entries, by week or month, with the average, the maximum and a 16 h reference. You also see it in Charts.

It is calculated from entry times: it is only reliable if you log everything. If the previous day has no entries, that day is not calculated.

Fasting chart

7Charts

Day, week or month

In Charts you choose the period as in PAC-SALUT: Day, Week or Month, and use the arrows (or tap the date) to move between days, weeks or months.

There is a chart for each item: energy, carbohydrates, sugars, fibre, protein, fat, saturated fat, salt and fasting. In Day each bar is a meal; in week and month each bar is a day, with the average, minimum, maximum and the target line.

With Another nutrient you add any mineral or vitamin.

Charts screen

8Reports: the nutrition diary

Week and month

In Reports you have the Nutrition diary with the same structure as the PAC-SALUT reports: header, a table of items per day with the average, and the legend.

Week (Monday to Sunday): day-by-day table, energy per meal and food record. Month: calendar with each day’s kcal against the target, day summary, averages and summary by week.

Weekly report

Daily report

Choose Day: every food of each meal is listed with its nutrients, a subtotal per meal, the day’s total and the percentage of the target.

Macronutrients are always included; + Minerals and + Vitamins add the micronutrient tables (with the % of the EU reference value).

“—” means the food has no data for that nutrient. Foods with doubtful data are numbered under Values to review.

Daily report

Correcting a value

In a daily report, tap a food to see its values per 100 g or 100 ml. The app warns you if something doesn’t add up (for example, a juice with no sugars or energy that doesn’t match the macronutrients).

Correct the value with the label in hand and tap Save correction: it is applied to the food database, to every record that uses it and to the recipes that contain it.

Correcting a food’s values

PDF to share or print

In Charts and Reports, the PDF icon creates the document in A4 landscape and opens the phone’s Share menu: Drive, Gmail, WhatsApp… and printing.

The PDF carries the PAC-SALUT footer (PACientActiu ©, website, date and page) and the data sources.

9Your data

Food database

In Settings → Food database you find your Products, Recipes and Usual meals.

Where it is

Everything is saved on your device. In Settings → Your data:

  • Save backup: choose where to keep it (Drive, Dropbox, email…). The file name includes the date and time (.txt file).
  • Restore: recovers a backup (on this device or another).
  • Export log: CSV file to open in a spreadsheet.

Make backups often and keep them off your phone. If you clear the browser data or uninstall the app, your data is lost.

Settings: language, profile and data

Help

The ? icon opens this manual, the PAC-NUTRI page (to install it on another device) and the suggestions email.

Help window