Carbs Mentor™ Feature:
- The Carbs Mentor™ feature provides you with greater insight and guidance around food so you can better manage your meals. The information from the Carbs Mentor™ feature helps you better understand the carbs in your food so you can make more informed decisions.
- The Carbs Mentor™ feature adds greater functionality to the way you add a carb event. See Add Carbs.
- When selecting foods and their serving size, remember to use caution to make sure you are choosing the correct portion size and amount of carbohydrates.
- When creating or editing a carb event:
1. Tap the magnifying glass icon on the Add an Event or Edit an Event screen. A search bar appears.
2. Once in the Search screen, tap in the Search bar and start typing the name of the food you plan to eat. Then tap the magnifying glass icon at the side of the Search bar to get search results. To utilize the bar code scanning feature tap on the barcode icon in the Carbs Mentor™ and have the package or wrapper for the meal you intend to eat nearby and ready to scan.
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- The Carbs Mentor™ feature displays results based on your search term. Find the food you are looking for and tap the plus icon to the right of the search result to select it.
- Tap on your selected food to display an adjustable picker. This picker can be used to change the serving size, which changes the amount of carbs.
3. You can also scan a product barcode by tapping the barcode scanner icon.
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- After scanning successfully, adjust your serving size.
4. The JUST ADDED tab includes foods you have added for the current Carb event. The Recent tab includes the last 25 foods you picked from the Carbs Mentor™ feature. If you want to add additional foods, tap the Search bar or barcode scanner again and repeat the process.
5. You can remove a selected food by tapping on its check mark to clear it.
6. You can tap the star to the left of the search result to add the food to your Favorites.
7. Tap Done.
8. After selecting one or more items from the Carbs Mentor™ feature, you will see an up-arrow icon next to the carb value. If you tap it, it expands to display the Carbs Mentor™ items you have selected and the carbs associated with them.
9. Tap Save to add the carb event to your Timeline.
- NOTE:
- The OneTouch Reveal® mobile app will only save the grams of carbs from your Carbs Mentor™ entry. The mobile app will not save the type of food, the number of servings, or anything other than the gram value to your timeline, the logbook, or to any reports.
- Once an entry is saved the number of grams of carbs will be rounded to the nearest whole number.
