What you need to know
- Google Health app introduces v5.04 with focus on Nutrition Log.
- Users are introduced to “custom meals”, which give them more freedom to record what they eat, with more seamless and personalized touches and inputs.
- The health app also adds Quick Logging for food, pinpoints Cycle trends, and more.
We just got comfortable with the latest update to Google Health, and now the company is rolling out a new one. This time your daily food intake takes center stage.
Google later this week announced Version 5.04 of the Health app is rolling out to Android and iOS. This update “builds on improvements” made in recent history, but the main highlight is its Nutrition Update. Google introduces “custom dishes” with v5.04. The goal is to make access seamless and personalized. With custom dishes, users can “create, edit and delete” their entries with more freedom.
A search function for specific meals is included, making it easy to record what you ate throughout the day. Joining this is Quick Logging “calorie and macro estimates.” This is an alternative way to record what you eat. Google says users don’t have to “search for or add” the specific name of what they eat. Users can “enter the entry by simply adding calories and macronutrients.” Nutrition Update rounding is an adjustment for macronutrient percentages.
Cycle Health is cleaning up this week. Google makes it easy for users to view trends in chronological order (intended for long-term viewing).
Google offers a fix for “incomplete heart rate charts and maps that don’t reflect the full duration of the workout” when Naps switches to the “Today” tab. This latest fix applies to iOS users. Google says that iPhone users can now properly invite friends.
Continuing the trend
since Presented by Google Healthhas been a company fairly consistent in solving problems and implementing new functions. Latest update, Health program v5.03it was released just a week ago. Health metrics were where Google focused. A large selection of sizes through tiles has been added to the application. Added tiles for “Heart Rate Variability, Respiration Rate, Oxygen Saturation (SpO2), Resting Heart Rate, Skin Temperature Change, Blood Glucose, Mindful Days, Mindful Minutes, Stamina, Protein Intake, Fat Intake, Carb Intake, and Your Friend’s Leaderboard.”
On the other hand, what we see during sleep in this week’s version is based on what we got last week. The Google Health app will include the naps you take (20 minutes or more) in your basic sleep session statistics.
Android Central’s Take
Nutrition is a big part of our daily life. They always say “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”, but many of us skip it. For many reasons I’m sure. What we eat matters. Enough calories, protein, carbs, what have you. If you exercise or manage your diet, this is also important to monitor. I like that the wellness program takes this seriously because it is important to most of us.
