What’s NEW in the App?

December 2024

NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS

• Full menu added for Joe & The Juice
• Latest foods & drinks added for Starbucks

NEW BARCODE FOODS

• Another 1,347 foods imported into the barcode database.

November 2024

NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS

• Full menu added for Slim Chickens
• Latest foods added for Caffe Nero, Wasabi, Wimpy and YO! Sushi
• Nutritional values updated for some Wasabi, Wimpy and YO! Sushi foods & drinks

NEW BARCODE FOODS

• This month we imported 5,992 + 1,065 + 1,894 + 1,019 + 1,004 foods to the barcode database, making the total foods in the app = 234,753!

October 2024

NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS

• Full menu added from Ask Italian
• Nutritional values have been updated for food & drink items from KFC, Papa John’s, Pizza Hut, Subway and Zizzi (to reflect their latest recipes)

NEW GLUCOSE FOODS

• By popular request from our diabetes audience, we’ve added items from GlucoTabs, Lift and Dextro Energy

September 2024

NEW FEATURE!

• We’re committed to continually improving the Carbs & Cals, and to help you keep up-to-date with all the improvements we’re making to the app, we’ve introduced a What’s New section!
• This will include new features, new restaurant & cafe menus, extra barcode foods, updates to any nutritional info (e.g. when a restaurant changes their recipes / nutritional values), as well as behind-the-scenes stuff like bug fixes

IMPROVEMENTS

• When you export any days from your diary as a PDF, it now includes diary notes (which is super useful for sharing with your healthcare professional, so they can see your blood glucose and insulin log in your diary)

NEW BARCODE FOODS

• This month, we’ve added a further 1,736 barcode food items

August 2024

NEW FEATURE!

• By popular request, we’ve now added Diary Notes!  This useful feature allows you to write a note for every meal, and also record your blood glucose level & insulin units

NEW BARCODE FOODS

• More foods added to the barcode database! This month we imported 2,376 + 870 branded / supermarket foods. Happy scanning!

July 2024

NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS

• Full menus added for Coffee#1, Cooplands Bakery & Pilpel
• Latest foods have been added to the Burger King menu (and a few existing foods have had their nutritional values updated)

NEW BARCODE FOODS

• This month we imported 1,802 + 1,600 foods to the barcode database, making the total foods in the app = 214,477!

June 2024

NEW BARCODE FOODS

• Early this month we imported 1,219 foods to the barcode database, and a further 1,198 towards the end of the month, making the total foods in the app = 206,705!

May 2024

NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS

• Full menus added for Bagel Factory, Crepeaffair, and Frankie & Benny’s
• Existing food items from McDonald’s, Taco Bell & Wagamama have all been updated, reflecting their latest recipes and nutritional values

NEW BARCODE FOODS

• This month we imported 2,414 foods to the barcode database, making the total foods in the app = 204,288!

April 2024

NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS

• Full menus added for Toby Carvery & Tortilla
• 252 latest food items added to Papa John’s, Taco Bell & YO! Sushi menus

NEW BARCODE FOODS

• Early this month we imported 1,780 foods to the barcode database, a further 699 foods mid-month, and 1,461 later in the month (bringing the total foods in the app to over 200,000!)

March 2024

UPDATED RESTAURANTS

• 109 latest food items added to Itsu, McDonald’s & Wagamama menus

NEW BARCODE FOODS

• This month, we’ve imported a further 2,359 foods, bringing the total foods in the app to 195,650!

February 2024

UPDATED RESTAURANTS

• 146 new food & drink items added to Caffe Nero, Costa, Greggs, Leon, Pret, Pure & Starbucks
• All existing Domino’s, Krispy Kreme & Nando’s foods have been updated to their latest nutrition values

NEW BARCODE FOODS

• Every few weeks we import new foods to the barcode database, and this month we’ve imported a further 782 foods, bringing the total foods in the app to 192,604!

January 2024

NEW RESTAURANTS

• Full menus from Neat Burgers and Wetherspoons

December 2023

NEW RESTAURANTS

• Full menus from Cote, Honest Burgers, Pepe’s Piri Piri, and West Cornwall Pasty Co

November 2023

IMPROVEMENTS

• By popular request, we’ve now added Timestamps!  This useful feature records and displays the time you add each food to the diary, to give you a more accurate picture of when each food was consumed (and a simple left-to-right swipe on a food allows you to change the time if needed)

October 2023

UPDATED RESTAURANTS

• Winter menus from Caffe Nero, Costa, Greggs, Leon, Pret, Pure & Starbucks has been added, so you’ve got all their latest foods & drinks, ready for the Xmas season!

September 2023

NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS

• Full menus added from Ben’s Cookies, Las Iguanas & Popeyes
• 147 new food & drink items added to Krispy Kreme, Nando’s & Pizza Hut

August 2023

NEW RESTAURANTS

• Full menus from Franco Manca, Mr Pretzels, Ping Pong & Pure

July 2023

IMPROVEMENTS

• We’ve implemented the much-requested feature of syncing the Carbs & Cals app with Apple Health Kit, so the data for Carbs, Calories, Protein & Fat for foods logged in the Carbs & Cals app will be sent to your Apple Health app
• Recently we added a HUGE amount of foods to the app by introducing a barcode scanner database, but now those foods are also available when you search for a food. Happy searching (and scanning)!

NEW & UPDATED RESTAURANTS

• Full menu from Rosa’s Thai has been added
• Summer menus from Costa, Pret & Starbucks has been added too, so you’ve got all their latest foods & drinks

NEW BARCODE FOODS

• Between the early July and mid July imports, we’ve added nearly 4,000 more barcode foods, making the total foods in the app 166,177!

June 2023

NEW BARCODE FOODS

• Early June we added 16,533 more foods to the barcode scanner database, and mid June we added another 1502, making the total foods in the app 162,186