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Food Tolerance Journal

Record what you ate, how much, when, and what happened afterwards, so the pattern is on paper instead of in your memory.

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Reviewed July 18, 2026

In development — not yet reviewed

This tool is being built. The page describes what it will ask you and what it will hand back, so you can judge whether it is worth waiting for. Nothing here calculates anything yet.

Write down what happened

Food, portion, time, and what followed — including the times nothing followed, which turn out to be the useful ones.

What this will not do

It will not tell you a food accounted for a symptom, and it does not diagnose an intolerance. What it can do is count: how often you wrote a food down, how often a symptom appears in the same entry, and how often it does not. The last of those three is the one that stops a count reading as a verdict.

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Date · Required

Time of day

Roughly is fine.

What you ate or drank · Required

Write it the way you would say it. "Yogurt" and "yogurt" are counted as the same thing.

How much

Portion is often the pattern, not the ingredient.

A few bitesA small portionA moderate portionWhat I used to eat

Medication around this

Timing matters and is easy to forget by the evening.

No medication involvedMedication shortly beforeMedication with itMedication afterwardsMedication on a different day

What followed

Leave every box unticked if nothing did. That is data, and the journal counts it.

NauseaVomitingFull after a few bitesReflux or heartburnBloatingWindStomach painConstipationDiarrhoeaTaste or smell was offVery tired afterwards

How bad it was

Nothing to noteMildModerateSevere

How long it lasted

Not sureUnder half an hourHalf an hour to two hoursTwo to six hoursMost of the day

Drinking that day

Drinking very little that dayDrinking some that dayDrinking plenty that day

Anything else about that day

Sleep, stress, a bad night, an appointment. The things that make a day different from the day before.

Before you carry on writing this down

You have recorded something severe, or vomiting. That is worth a phone call rather than another week of notes — a record is useful to a clinician, and it is not a reason to wait for one.

When this needs a clinician, not a recipe

Some of this is not a food problem. Contact your care team the same day — or use urgent care if you cannot reach them — if any of this is true:

You cannot keep fluids down for a day or more.
You are losing weight quickly without meaning to.
You have signs of dehydration: very dark urine, passing much less than usual, dizziness when you stand, a dry mouth that sipping does not fix, or new confusion.
Pain, vomiting, or trouble swallowing is stopping you eating or drinking at all.
Abdominal pain is severe, or it is not letting up.

If you are the one doing the cooking and you are the one noticing this, you are the right person to make the call. Say what you have seen and when it started — that is the useful part.

Your record

Your data, and how to take it with you

Export before you clear your browser, change device, or hand anything to a clinician. Delete removes every entry from this browser immediately — Appetune has no copy to restore from.

Where this is kept

Every entry is stored in this browser and nowhere else. There is no account, nothing is uploaded, and Appetune has no copy — which also means clearing your browser data clears this. Export it if it matters.

Nothing you type here leaves your device. There is no account and no server.

What this result is not

Not a diagnosis of a food intolerance, an allergy, or a digestive condition. Some of those need testing, and none of them can be read off a list.
Not evidence that a food accounts for a symptom. The record holds everything else about that day in the same line.
Not a reason to drop a food on its own. Take the record to your care team first — a shorter list of safe foods is its own problem.

Where each figure comes from

This tool prints no published figure, so there is no coefficient to trace. Everything it shows is either a count of what you wrote down or a sentence you typed yourself — nothing is borrowed from a study, and nothing is compared against one.

What it asks you

Food, portion, time of day, and what followed: nausea, fullness, reflux, bowel changes, energy, or nothing at all. Context if it is relevant.

What it gives back

A dated record you can read back, with recurring pairings surfaced, and a printable summary for an appointment.

How it works

Every figure a tool produces comes from a structured food record or a published reference, and the working is shown. If a number cannot be traced, the tool does not print it.

How we rate and calculate

What this page is not

A tool output is a starting point for a conversation, not a prescription. It does not know your medical history, your medications, or your labs.

Appetune is nutrition support: educational information and general wellness tools. It does not sell or supply medication, and it does not provide medical diagnosis, medication instructions, or individualized treatment. Contact a qualified healthcare professional about persistent symptoms, dehydration, severe gastrointestinal symptoms, medication concerns, or major changes in food intake.

When this needs a clinician, not a recipe

Some of this is not a food problem. Contact your care team the same day — or use urgent care if you cannot reach them — if any of this is true:

You cannot keep fluids down for a day or more.
You are losing weight quickly without meaning to.
You have signs of dehydration: very dark urine, passing much less than usual, dizziness when you stand, a dry mouth that sipping does not fix, or new confusion.
Pain, vomiting, or trouble swallowing is stopping you eating or drinking at all.
Abdominal pain is severe, or it is not letting up.

If you are the one doing the cooking and you are the one noticing this, you are the right person to make the call. Say what you have seen and when it started — that is the useful part.

Sources

What this draws on

These are the reference works this page is being written against. Specific citations are added, line by line, before it leaves draft.

MedlinePlus — Nutritionmedlineplus.gov

Bring the output to your next appointment.

A page of specifics is a better use of ten minutes than trying to remember how the month went.

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