# Natural food guide

> Low glycemic index food diary

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id621496642](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id621496642)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id621496642`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Baliza GmbH
- **Category:** Food & Drink
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (111 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.6
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-15
- **First published:** 2013-04-29
- **Size:** 73 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/natural-food-guide/id621496642)
- **Website:** [https://www.baliza.de/en/apps/natural-food-guide.html](https://www.baliza.de/en/apps/natural-food-guide.html)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.baliza.de/en/privacy/](https://www.baliza.de/en/privacy/)

## Description

**Natural Food Guide** is a nutrition reference, food diary, and recipe calculator for people who want to understand and improve their eating habits. Explore more than 1,300 foods, compare calories and nutrients, check glycemic index and load, and review detailed vitamins, minerals, fats, proteins, and carbohydrate data.

Create recipes, adjust portion sizes, track daily meals, set personal nutrition requirements, and export food diary analyses as PDFs. Customized profiles support low-salt, healthy fat, low-glycemic, low-carb, natural food, low-added-sugar, vegetarian, vegan, and low-nickel diets. The free version includes core nutrition tracking, a shopping list, barcode scanning, favorites, notes, and offline access, while the Pro version adds unlimited diary entries, advanced nutrient data, dietary profiles, filters, and recipe analysis with a one-time purchase.

## Rankings

- #132,762 — Overall

## Review summary

Users largely praise the app for its extensive nutrition database and strong GL/carb tracking, plus useful diet customization and easy, time-saving features. Recurrent drawbacks focus on data accuracy due to generic entries, the inability to add custom or brand-specific foods, gaps in coverage of common items, and a desire for more nutrient breadth and brand variety.

### Pros

- Extensive, searchable nutrition database with a very large list of foods and detailed nutritional data.
- Strong glycemic load and carbohydrate tracking, helpful for diabetics and GL-focused diets.
- Diet customization and recipe features, including planning for goals like lower cholesterol, higher omega-3, and the ability to create/evaluate recipes.
- Time-saving and convenient all-in-one tool for nutrition calculations; generally easy to use.
- Intuitive interface and easy navigation.

### Cons

- Data accuracy issues due to generic ingredients and lack of brand-specific items, leading to incorrect values (examples include iodine data and certain foods).
- Inability to add your own foods or input unusual/brand-specific ingredients; noticeable gaps in the database.
- Incomplete coverage of common foods and brands, with some items missing or outdated.
- Desire for broader nutrient data and more brands/foods (e.g., potassium, sodium) as well as more comprehensive ingredient coverage.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id621496642)