When the food is not in the database, photograph the plate and correct the portion. Do not pick the first "chicken" result with a random calorie count. That is the 1-star complaint on crowdsourced apps: forty duplicate entries, none of them your aunt's maqluba, none of them last night's Swedish leftovers. The database failed because it was built for barcodes. Your dinner was not.
Khatwa is built for unlabeled food: photo, search, or type, in Arabic and English. Save the meal as a favorite the second time. You stop fighting search. You log what was on the table.
Skip the 40-result chicken list. Photograph the actual dish.
If search cannot name it, the camera can still log it
Khatwa logs homemade and regional food from a photo. Free on iOS and Android.
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