# Food Sense Guide

> Track Your Food Sensitivities

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1457896728](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1457896728)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1457896728`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Melanie Avalon Inc.
- **Category:** Food & Drink
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (328 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.5.0
- **Last updated:** 2023-11-11
- **First published:** 2019-03-29
- **Size:** 50 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/food-sense-guide/id1457896728)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://melanieavalon.com/food-sense-privacy-policy](https://melanieavalon.com/food-sense-privacy-policy)

## Description

Food Sense Guide helps you identify potential food sensitivities with a catalog of 300+ foods, showing levels for amines, FODMAPs, glutamates, gluten, histamine, lectins, oxalates, sulfites, thiols, nightshade, and AIP status. You can create personal lists and notes, and export data for sharing or printing.

The app offers free basic features and a premium plan for advanced tools, designed for both individuals and practitioners to quickly identify triggers and plan meals to support GI and hormonal health.

## Rankings

- #85,676 — Overall

## Review summary

Users find Food Sense Guide easy to use and highly comprehensive for food sensitivities, with strong list-building and cross-referencing features. But recurring complaints focus on misleading free access and premium gating, gaps in food coverage, and outdated resources, plus a desire for built-in symptom tracking that the app currently lacks.

### Pros

- Easy to use and user-friendly interface
- Comprehensive, well-researched information on food sensitivities
- Ability to create and manage custom lists of foods
- Helpful cross-referencing of compounds and potential triggers
- Valuable overall reference with extensive resources and data

### Cons

- Premium subscription gates core features and free-use claims mislead users
- Incomplete food coverage; some items are missing or not listed (e.g., chickpea)
- Resources and links can be outdated or broken
- Lack of built-in symptom tracking and data gaps (e.g., certain health metrics)

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