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Weekly nutrition view

When your meal plan has recipes scheduled, Forktastic aggregates their nutrition data into a daily and weekly view. It’s useful for two things: keeping a rough eye on your nutrition, and answering “do I have enough variety this week?”

It’s not a calorie-counting app — it doesn’t track what you actually ate, just what you planned. But for meal planning, that’s usually what matters.

How to see it

From the Meal Plan tab:

  • Week view: tap the chart icon in the top-right.
  • Day view: scroll to the bottom of the day; the nutrition panel is there.

The view shows:

  • Per-day totals — calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber for each day of the week
  • Per-week totals — same metrics summed across the 7 days
  • Targets (if set) — daily targets you’ve configured, with a progress bar showing where you are
  • Variance — how much your week varies from day to day (high variance is more interesting than a flat line of identical days)

How the numbers are calculated

For each scheduled meal:

  1. Forktastic looks up the recipe’s per-serving nutrition.
  2. Multiplies by the servings scheduled in the meal slot (default 1).
  3. Adds to that day’s totals.

Sources of nutrition data:

  • Imported recipes — calculated from ingredients at import time, then cached.
  • Recipes from Explore — same calculation when you save them.
  • Hand-typed recipes (Write from scratch) — calculated on save from your ingredient list, where possible.

If a recipe has missing nutrition data (e.g., one ingredient was unparseable), the day’s total is shown as an estimate with a small “Partial data” badge.

Setting nutrition targets

You can optionally set daily targets so the view shows progress bars:

  1. Open Options → Account settings → Nutrition targets.
  2. Enter target values for calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber. Leave any blank if you don’t care to track them.
  3. Save.

The nutrition view now shows a colored progress bar per metric: green if you’re within ±10% of target, yellow if you’re significantly under, red if you’re significantly over.

Macronutrient breakdown

Each day’s view includes a pie chart showing the percentage of calories from protein, carbs, and fat. If you follow a specific macro ratio (keto, balanced, etc.), this is the at-a-glance view for whether your plan matches.

Micronutrients

For users who want more depth: tap Show micronutrients at the bottom of the nutrition view. Forktastic includes (when ingredient data supports it):

  • Sodium, potassium
  • Calcium, iron
  • Vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D
  • Saturated fat, cholesterol, sugar

Micronutrient estimation is less precise than macros (especially for vitamins). Treat these as rough indicators, not medical-grade.

Exporting

Tap More → Export nutrition data to download a CSV of the week’s nutrition for use in another app. Includes one row per day with all tracked metrics.

Logging to Apple Health

On iOS, you can sync the meal plan to Apple Health so nutrition appears in the Health app. See Log meals to Apple Health.