What you need to know
- The Google Health app is rolling out version 5.04, which focuses on nutrition tracking.
- Users are introduced to “personalized foods,” which provide a more seamless and personalized touch when recording what they’ve eaten, as well as more freedom with inputs.
- The Health app also adds Quick Log for food, refines cycle trends, and more.
We just got comfortable with the latest Google Health update and now the company is rolling out another one. This time, your daily food intake takes center stage.
Later this week, Google announced Version 5.04 of its Health app is rolling out to Android and iOS. This update “builds on improvements” made in recent history, but the highlight is its Nutritional Update. Google introduces “custom foods” with version 5.04. The goal is to make registration seamless and personalized. With custom feeds, users can “create, edit and delete” their entries more freely.
A custom food search feature is included, making it easy to log what you’ve eaten throughout the day. Added to this are Quick Logging’s “macro and calorie estimates.” This is an alternative route to recording what you have eaten. Google says users don’t have to “search or add” the specific name of what they’ve eaten. Users can “log an entry simply by adding calories and macronutrients.” The nutritional update is completed with a solution for macronutrient percentages.
Cycle Health is being refined this week. Google is making it easier for users to view trends in chronological order (designed for long-term viewing).
Naps go to the Today tab, while Google rolls out a fix for “incomplete heart rate graphs and maps that don’t represent the total duration of exercise.” This final solution concerns iOS users. Google claims that users with an iPhone can now successfully invite friends.
Continuing with the trend
From introducing Google Healththe company has been pretty consistent to fix problems and introduce new features. The latest update, Health app v5.03released just a week ago. Health metrics were where Google put its attention. A large selection of metrics has been added to the app via tiles. Added tiles for “heart rate variability, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation (SpO2), resting heart rate, skin temperature variation, blood glucose, conscious days, conscious minutes, resilience, protein intake, fat intake, carbohydrate intake, and your friends’ leaderboard.”
On the other hand, what we’re looking at for naps in this week’s version is based on what we received last week. The Google Health app will include any naps you’ve taken (20 minutes or more) in your main sleep session statistics.
Android Central’s opinion
Nutrition is a big part of our daily lives. They always say that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”, but many of us skip it. For multiple reasons, I’m sure. What we eat matters. Get enough calories, protein, carbs, whatever. It’s also important to keep track of that, if you’re exercising or watching your diet. I like that the Health app is taking this seriously, as it’s important to many of us.
