The Fooday blog

Plain-language guides to eating more mindfully, counting calories from photos and keeping a food diary you'll actually stick with.

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  How AI counts calories from a photo of your food

  How an AI calorie counter turns a photo of your plate into calories: recognising dishes, estimating portions, and why it is an estimate you can edit.

  9 November 2026
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  Calories in popular dishes: ramen, pho, sushi, pizza and more

  Calorie estimates for 15 popular dishes from real photos scanned with Fooday AI, and why the same dish can land hundreds of calories apart.

  8 November 2026
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  Mindful eating for beginners: a gentle start that doesn't involve counting everything

  Mindful eating means noticing what and how you eat without judging yourself. Five small habits to start, and how a photo diary shows your patterns.

  7 November 2026
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  Why keeping a food diary works, and how to make it effortless

  Writing down what you eat makes habits visible. What research on self-monitoring says, why food diaries get dropped, and how one photo fixes it.

  6 November 2026
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  Eating out and sharing dishes: how to log a family-style meal

  Family-style tables, dim sum and hot pot make food logging hard. How to log the whole table once and count only your share of each dish.

  5 November 2026