Understand what you eat — no jargon, no surveillance.
Seven in-depth guides — each one takes the blog's benchmarks and puts them in context.
Scan, search, photo, description, recipe, custom food: the six ways Radish lets you log a meal, and which one fits what's actually on your plate.
Radish writes where every figure comes from: official table, label, your own measurement, or an estimate. The seven tags, and what each one means.
Recents, Frequents, Favourites, My foods, copying a whole meal from another day: the Radish shortcuts that take logging from thirty seconds to three.
Name, servings, ingredients: how to save a personal recipe in Radish, and what the app does when an ingredient's energy is unknown.
Diary, scanning, Nutri-Score, micronutrients: free, no limit. What Premium (subscription) and Lifetime (one-time payment, BYOK AI) actually add, feature by feature.
Profile and calorie goal, Apple Health or Health Connect sync, JSON backup: the 3 settings that actually change the experience, in 5 minutes.
From Japan to Mexico, via India, Spain and the Caribbean: how the recipe library grew, cuisine by cuisine, sourced from CIQUAL, USDA, CoFID or BLS.
Mass balance, cooking yields, Atwater check, CIQUAL priority: the method used for every recipe, including your own personal recipes.
Tonkatsu, katsudon, okonomiyaki, yakitori, kare raisu: 10 Japanese dishes added to the library, with calories per portion and detailed CIQUAL sourcing.
No sign-up, no password, no server keeping your log. The architecture choice behind Radish having no account, and what it actually changes.
Free calorie tracker, no account. Your food log stays on your phone — never sent to our servers (except AI or barcode scanning, if you use them).
CoFID (UK), BLS (Germany), CNF (Canada) and AUSNUT (Australia) joined the database on August 30, 2026: 14,669 foods, verified open licenses, systematic deduplication.
CIQUAL (ANSES, France) and USDA FoodData Central (United States) don't measure food the same way. Why Radish keeps them separate rather than averaging the two.
CIQUAL, USDA, "measured," "estimated," "queued": what each colored badge on a food entry means, and what actually counts as sourced.
On August 30, 2026, an internal review found our "Our Promise" page didn't mention the Firebase audience measurement, already disclosed elsewhere for two days. What happened, what was fixed, the same day.
There is no single number that applies to "women": age, height, weight, activity level and life stage all move the real energy requirement. BMR, TDEE and official reference values, no strict diet.
App Privacy label, in-app purchases, data sources, Nutri-Score, Health permissions, airplane mode: the 6 things to check, and where to check them.
The “%” on a label follows the European NRVs, not the ANSES references — a threefold gap on vitamin D. Official reference values, EFSA safety limits and real food contents from CIQUAL/USDA.
A product can carry a Nutri-Score C but score 70/100 on Yuka, or the reverse. It's not an error: two different calculation methods, explained with official sources.
Your calorie tracker went paywall in 2026? Here's how to count calories for free, with no subscription and no account: scanning, Nutri-Score, counting without a connection. The facts, sourced.
Noom settled a $56 million class action in 2022 over its subscription and cancellation practices. The facts, sourced (Bloomberg Law, NC Journal of Law & Tech).
The WHO benchmark (under 10%, ideally under 5% of energy) and the ANSES benchmark (100 g/day excluding lactose and galactose): where hidden sugar comes from and how to track it.
The WHO benchmark (under 5 g of salt, 2 g of sodium) and why 75-80% of salt comes from processed foods, not the salt shaker.
The ANSES benchmark: at least 25 g a day, 30 g as a target. Where to find your fibre, and why most calorie counters leave it out.
How we cross-check every nutrition figure against official sources (ANSES, EFSA, WHO, CIQUAL/USDA, French Public Health) and how health topics are reviewed before publishing.
What each macro does, the % of calories split recommended by ANSES, the 4 and 9 kcal/g rule, and how to track your macros without overthinking it.
Yuka rates your products at the scan, Radish keeps your journal (calories, macros, 11 vitamins and minerals). Not the same job — many people keep both.
Visual cues (palm, fist, thumb), realistic ranges, the 80/20 rule and after-the-fact estimating — without pulling out the app at the table.
Iron, vitamin D, B12: the 3 most common nutrient deficiencies — general signs, who's most at risk, and where to find them in food. Sources ANSES, HAS, French Public Health, WHO.
Mifflin-St Jeor, Harris-Benedict, the WHO/FAO equation: the real basal metabolic rate formulas compared, with their documented error margins.
EU INCO regulation vs FDA Nutrition Facts: calculation basis, reference percentages, mandatory fields. The full side-by-side comparison.
NOVA groups 1 to 4: how this scientific classification tells apart unprocessed, culinary, processed and ultra-processed foods.
Negative points, positive points, 3 scoring grids, the 2023-2025 revision: the full detail of the calculation and its documented limits.
4 kcal/g for carbs, 4 for protein, 9 for fat: the Atwater method explained, its origin, and its limits documented by the FAO.
Average requirement, standard deviation, population reference: how a nutrition recommendation number is actually calculated.
Vitamins and minerals: the ANSES/EFSA benchmarks to know, where to find them, and how Radish displays them using real CIQUAL data.
A new scoring scale for solids, fats and beverages, enacted into French law by the decree of 14 March 2025. The details, category by category, sourced.
Nutri-Score display is still voluntary today. Where the push for mandatory labeling stands in 2026, what's been voted and rejected, and what Radish already shows.
Radish or Foodllama? An honest comparison: privacy, price, counting without a connection, Nutri-Score, with public sources cited and dated.
Radish or Cal AI? An honest comparison: privacy, price, counting without a connection, Nutri-Score, with public sources cited and dated.
Radish or MyFitnessPal? An honest comparison: privacy, price, counting without a connection, Nutri-Score. Why pick a calorie counter that doesn't sell your data.
Yazio or Radish? An honest comparison: account + cloud vs a local food log, price (Yazio PRO ~$47.90/year), Nutri-Score and 11 vitamins and minerals free with Radish.
The best free MyFitnessPal alternative in 2026: free barcode scanner, no account, counting without a connection, Nutri-Score. Count calories without a subscription.
MyFitnessPal locked barcode scanning behind Premium (~$80/year). Scan calories for free in 2026: no account, counting without a connection, Nutri-Score included.
Here's exactly what stays on your phone — never sent to our servers (except AI or barcode scanning, if you use them), the one exception (AI meal analysis, which you trigger yourself), and how to turn it off. Your food log stays on your phone — never sent to our servers (except AI or barcode scanning, if you use them). No account, free.
Named table, release year, entry code: the three signs that tell a sourced number from an estimate. Official editor pages checked on 25 Aug 2026.
Why an offline calorie counter changes everything: privacy, speed, travel. How to track calories with no internet and no account.
Intermittent fasting 16/8 explained simply: how it works, the phases, beginner mistakes, and how to track it easily.
How much protein per day for your weight and goal? The simple g/kg calculation, the best sources, and how to track it easily.
Radish is a free calorie tracker that shows the Nutri-Score (A to E) on every food where the data allows: 19,462 foods, 922 recipes, no account, no ads.
How many calories a day? Understand BMR, TDEE, activity factors and a reasonable deficit or surplus, explained simply.
Data collected, resale, the free = you're the product model: what calorie apps know about you and how local, offline storage protects your privacy.
Realistic calorie ballparks for a burger, a meal, a pizza slice, a kebab and fries, plus how to choose a little better.
A 2026 comparison of 5 calorie apps: Radish, MyFitnessPal, Yazio, Cronometer, FatSecret. Price, account, counting without a connection and Nutri-Score, checked on 26 July 2026.
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