It’s fine if the food tracking app is either on iOS or Android, and preferably the food tracking also has a website to enter in food info. I had been losing weight steadily until the start of the school year. At my college, all of the foods in the dining halls have labels [like this](https://imgur.com/gallery/MaMXsC7), they don’t have barcodes nor official nutrition labels to go with them.
I thought that if I kept the number of calories in my head that I could stay on a caloric deficit and lose more weight, but I haven’t. It seems like the only solution is to go back to using a food tracking app to precisely count my calories. but it would be very cumbersome to enter in the info for all of the foods manually.
I spent lots of time looking for apps that would allow me to enter in food information with an API (with code), scan food labels like the one above, or copy and paste text to automatically log food. I haven’t found any apps that can do any of those or are good. However, on my iPhone and iPad, I can use the [Toolbox Pro](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/toolbox-pro-for-shortcuts/id1476205977) app to get all the text from the info, plus easily run code on either device to automatically get the relevant info like so:
California Sushi Bowl
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Calories: 168
Serving Size: 1 roll
Protein: 5
Carbs: 33.7
It would be great if I could copy and paste this into a food tracking app and have it log the food into a diary automatically, rather than have to enter the name and each macro one by one.
by TheTwelveYearOld