Your daily totals over time
Where your data is kept
Backup or text export: which one do you need?
Download a backup when you want to keep your log safe or move it to another phone or computer. The backup is a JSON file with everything in it, and restoring it brings your log back exactly as it was. The text export is meant for reading. It lists what you ate on each day in plain words, so you can print it, share it or keep it as a record. The app can also read a text export back in through Import from text.
Import a log from text
Paste a text export from this app here, or type a list of dates and foods yourself. You first see a preview of what will happen, and nothing changes until you press Import.
What the text should look like
Put a date on a line of its own to start a new day. Below it, write one food
per line with the amount first, for example 150g strawberries.
Amounts work the same way as in the box on the Day tab, so 1.5 kg rice
works too, and a number without a unit counts as grams. Each day is imported in
full or not at all. A day that is already in your log stays as it is, unless you
choose to replace it.
How much land does your food need?
ⓘEverything you eat needs land to grow. Here you can see how much land your diet takes compared with the average person in the Netherlands, and what the world's farmland would look like if everyone ate the way you do.
What you are compared with
Your land use per day is compared with that of the average person in the Netherlands, because the measurements behind this app were made for the Dutch food system. That gives a ratio: more or less land than average. The map applies this ratio to all the farmland in the world. Your own number of square metres is not used directly.
What your diet would do to the atmosphere
Food does not only take land. Growing, processing and transporting it also releases greenhouse gases every year. Land that goes back to nature works the other way and takes carbon out of the air. This chart adds both effects together over the next hundred years, so you can see what your way of eating would mean if the whole world ate like this.
Food as a share of all human emissions
About a third of all the greenhouse gases people emit comes from food. This chart shows the same hundred years, now with the other two thirds included, such as energy, industry and transport. That way you can weigh a change in diet against total emissions, and not only against the emissions from food.