Inside RealFoods
The RealFoods app has four features: a Metabolic Timeline that models your day from what and when you eat, AI photo scanning, a 1 to 10 Weight Impact Score for every meal, and daily and weekly journals. No database searching, no measuring cups, no streaks. Just a few simple features designed to change how you see your food.
1. The Metabolic Timeline
Most apps show you what you ate. The Metabolic Timeline estimates what those meals are likely doing, across your day.
Your homescreen maps your whole day, from your first coffee to your last bite, across four modelled zones: Burning Fat, Mostly Neutral, Fat-Burning Paused and Keeping Fat. Every meal you log moves the curve. A meal with a higher estimated insulin impact pushes the curve toward Keeping Fat, then it settles back toward Burning Fat as the estimated effect fades.
One glance shows the app's estimate of whether your day is leaning toward burning fat or keeping it. It models all of this from what and when you eat, so it is an estimate, not a measurement. No CGM, no patch, no breath device, just your meals.
2. AI Photo Scanning
Logging your food shouldn't feel like a part-time job. With RealFoods, you don't have to search a database for "medium banana" or weigh your chicken breast.
You just point your camera and snap a photo.
Our AI recognizes the meal quickly, estimates the nutritional profile, and, most importantly, estimates how that combination of ingredients is likely to affect blood sugar and insulin. It takes about 3 seconds, so logging stays easy.
3. The Weight Impact (WI) Score
Calories only tell you how much energy is in a food. They don't tell you how your body will process that energy.
A 200-calorie soda and 200 calories of almonds have very different estimated effects on blood sugar and insulin. The soda is likely to send blood sugar soaring and call in a lot of insulin. The almonds are likely to keep your energy steadier.
Weight Impact is RealFoods' 1 to 10 score for how strongly a meal is likely to raise blood sugar and call in insulin, where lower is better: 1 to 2 is Burning Fat, 3 to 4 Mostly Neutral, 5 to 6 Fat-Burning Paused and 7 to 10 Keeping Fat. It is a modelled estimate from the meal's foods, not a medical measurement. Instead of counting calories, you get one simple number per meal, shown with its zone:
- Scores 1 to 2, Burning Fat: likely keeps you burning fat, running on stored fat.
- Scores 3 to 4, Mostly Neutral: a small ripple your body handles easily.
- Scores 5 to 6, Fat-Burning Paused: likely pauses fat-burning for a while, then it picks back up.
- Scores 7 to 10, Keeping Fat: likely switches fat-burning off for a few hours, so the meal is more likely stored than burned. Swapping some refined carbs for protein, fibre and whole foods is the usual lever.
Want to see the score in action? The Weight Impact Score of 23 popular foods shows how everyday meals rank.
Ready to stop guessing what to eat?
4. Daily & Weekly Journals
Traditional apps use red numbers and broken "streaks" to guilt you into submission. RealFoods uses intelligence to guide you.
At the end of each day, instead of just staring at a spreadsheet of macros, you get a personalized Daily Journal. It highlights what worked, explains why certain cravings hit when they did, and offers one specific, easy adjustment for tomorrow.
It feels less like a calculator and more like a supportive partner helping you build habits that actually stick.
Questions about how any of this works? The RealFoods FAQ covers the most common ones.
