Changelog

Jul 20, 2023

The Journal page search string is cleared when a meal or activity is duplicated. We’ve found that users expect the search to be “completed” once a meal has been duplicated.

Mar 30, 2023

Easier food entry

Saltie now includes a button to use your phone’s camera which will automatically pull nutritional data and ingredients from the packaging, which cuts time to enter new food entries down substantially. You can also use a barcode scanner to add the UPC code.

Mar 23, 2023

Meal Guidance

We’ve introduced some simple guidance on meals that are especially high in carbs, fat or protein.

Mar 19, 2023

New Hypos Report

The Glucose Trends page now displays number of hypos per day. One hypo event is calculated as at least 15 minutes under 70 mg/dL.

Mar 15, 2023

Native iOS App

iPhone app

Saltie is now available as a native iOS app on the App Store! Get it here.

Barcode Scanning

Saltie can now access native functionality and libraries that aren’t available as a progressive web app. The first of these improvements is a barcode scanner that can very quickly scan and match a food item against Saltie’s database of 400k foods.

Feb 7, 2023

Faster Data Input

Medication autocomplete

  • The slider component has been redesigned to allow for faster input.
  • The medication input field now has an autocomplete with common medications.

Jan 8, 2023

Meal Creation Improvements

  • When you first open up the meal dialog, Saltie now offers suggestions for initial food items based on what you most commonly eat at the current time of day.

  • You can add any food to the current meal draft from any food page. Just click into the ellipsis (…) icon and click “Add to Meal”.

Dec 30, 2022

Faster Meal Entry

As you create meals, Saltie now offers suggestions for foods you’re likely to add to the meal based on past use. This reduces the amount of time and effort needed to add a new meal.

Recipes as checklists

Recipes now use checkboxes instead of bullet points to denote ingredients - this allows you to check off ingredients as you assemble them.

Bug fixes

  • Meal carb calculations happen on keyup instead of on change, so that you can save a meal while a particular food amount input field is still in focus.

Dec 4, 2022

Drag and Drop Improvements

Ingredients can now be re-ordered on mobile and desktop clients, either in the ingredients form dialog, or right on the food page.

Nov 24, 2022

Public Food Dataset

Just in time for Thanksgiving, we’ve made Saltie’s food dataset public for anyone to use. Head over to https://food.saltie.app to try it out.

Nov 17, 2022

Highlighting Allergens in Foods

Highlighting Allergies

  • You can now add a list of ingredients you’re allergic or sensitive to on the Account Settings page. Saltie will use this to highlight ingredients in foods that you may be allergic to.

Glooko Integration

  • Saltie now integrates with Glooko. This integration automatically imports your basal and bolus data from Glooko daily. Note that there currently is an issue between Insulet and Glooko which has meant that Glooko isn’t receiving all of the Omnipod 5 data. Glooko has acknoweldged this issue and says they are working to fix it. In the meantime, some basal and bolus data may be missing.

Nov 11, 2022

New Generic Food Library

Generic Foods

  • We’ve added a new “Generic” library of foods, so that a search for pantry staples like “ketchup” or “olive oil” return a reliable standard entry, so you don’t have to scan through hundreds of different but similar entries. The nutritional profiles of these foods are averages from dozens or even hundreds of existing branded entries.

Food Serving Sizes

  • Almost all 400k food entries now include multiple serving sizes (beyond gram/ml measurements). Based on first-hand experience and user feedback we expect this to significantly improve the process of creating recipes.

Nutritional Trends Redesign

  • The Nutrition Trends page design has been simplified to be less information-dense, and displays averages for each nutrient in a grid on desktop/tablet displays.

International Support

  • Saltie now enables real-time updates from Dexcom users outside the US.

Nov 1, 2022

Barcode Scanning

  • Using Mobile Safari’s “Scan Text” feature, you can now scan barcodes to search for food entries by UPC code.

UX Improvements

Holiday Emojis

  • We’ve decorated a few holidays with emojis on the Journal page.
  • Ensure Journal page will only render after all data is loaded to prevent layout jitter during page load.
  • Guard against double-clicking on all form submit buttons.

October 27, 2022

Duplication Improvements

  • Activities can now be duplicated.
  • Bug fix: when recipes are duplicated, their ingredients are now duplicated as well.

Real-time Dexcom Updates

  • Saltie now pulls in Dexcom CGM data every 5 minutes, instead of twice daily.

October 4, 2022

Custom Activity

  • Saltie now allows you to log custom activities like exercise, insulin injections, fingerstick readings, medication, illness, menstrual cycles, even arbitrary notes. These appear in chronological order along with your meals on the Journal page.
  • The Nutrition Trends report has been visually redesigned to highlight averages instead of individual daily values.

New Meal Report Page

  • A new “Meal Report” page has been added, which displays macronutrient composition and postprandial effect on blood glucose for each meal.
  • Based on macronutrient composition of the meal, the Glucose chart now highlights anywhere from 2 to 5 hours beyond from meal time as a rough estimate of glycemic response time.

Food search improvements

  • Added pagination to food search results.
  • Added a name: food search operator, to display exact name matches.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where search results would occasionally appear after selecting a food due to network latency.

September 19, 2022

Dataset & UX Improvements

  • The entire USDA dataset has been merged into the food library. Going forward, a person can use all of the 400k food entries right away in meals without first needing to make a copy into their own food library.
  • Many foods in the dataset now have multiple serving sizes. Before this update they only had a single measurement (most often it was in grams or mL).

mmol/L Support

  • Added support for importing and displaying glucose log data in mmol/L in addition to mg/dL.
  • If a person imports data in mmol/L and the account is configured to use mg/dL, or vice versa, a message will be shown prompting the person to use the correct unit.

September 9, 2022

Recipe Organization

  • Recipe ingredients can now be organized into named sections, and re-ordered. Drag-and-drop re-ordering works better on desktop currently - mobile web support is coming soon.

Journal Page Filtering

  • The Journal page can now be filtered down to only show meals that fall within 2 hours of the current time. This allows for easier viewing of recent meals that you’re likely to duplicate or modify.

July 29, 2022

Food Search Improvements

  • The food search algorithm now supports using a dash (-) character to exclude results, for example potato -chip.
  • The 6 month and 1 year date ranges display monthly averages instead of weekly averages, which makes long-term trends easier to interpret.
  • 3, 6 and 1 year date ranges display a 20th and 80th percentile range in addition to min and max ranges.
  • Standard Deviation has been added to the list of metrics.

Food Library Dataset

  • Several hundred additional verified foods have been added to the common food library, all with data sourced directly from packaging or the USDA.

July 8, 2022

USDA Data

  • Saltie now includes the entire 400k food dataset from the USDA, so searching for brands, food items, or even UPC/barcodes will much more likely turn up what you’re looking for. We built an in-memory index of the entire dataset so that searches respond in milliseconds.

July 1, 2022

We’re Live!

  • Saltie v1.0 is launched into private beta.
  • Sign up here to be added to the list for beta access.