Custom Nutrients

BRBWaffles

Hello! First post here! I've been using Cronometer to track my nutrition for about two or three months, and I've found it to be a very powerful tool. But, I think it would be useful for some users, including myself, if we were able to create custom nutrients. For example, I would love to be able to distinguish between K1 and K2. I would not at all mind going through the trouble of creating custom foods with the vitamin K2 content included so that I could track it at a glace like other nutrients. I think it would also be useful for people who take supplements that aren't typically considered nutrients. For example, I supplement with creatine, but I spread it out throughout the day. It would be useful to be able to track that so I don't lose track of my intake. I think this feature would seriously augment this app's utility as a general intake tracker. I can see athletes getting a lot out of this in particular.

tcolvinOH

One way you can do this is to create custom biometrics. Ive used this in the past to track various supplements and medications.

Karen_Cronometer

Great idea BRBWaffles! This is on our list of feature requests.

Cheers,

DonnaLH

I agree with the request for a way to track K2, as I only recently became aware that it does not seem to be included in the "Vitamin K" bucket, and/but I am finding different opinions as to the content of K2 in certain foods, especially natto.

BRBWaffles

The vitamin K2 content of foods has only begun to be measured, and is pretty much never included in any of the larger databases. It'll be many years before those databases are updated to include MANY of the more esoteric nutrients of interest, like K2.

Anthony

Not to be gready or anything but within K2 being able to distinguish between Mk4 and Mk7 would be very valuable.