Why Bissbilanz has you build your own database, and how to edit, merge, label and add photos to foods.
Bissbilanz doesn't ship a catalogue of millions of half-correct entries — you build your own food database instead. Every food you add once is yours, with your serving sizes and the values from the packaging you actually bought, and it's a tap away from then on. Barcode scanning, label scanning and the Open Food Facts lookup are there to fill in that first entry for you, not to replace it.
The quickest way to build it up is an AI assistant connected over MCP (see AI assistant): describe what you ate in plain language and the assistant creates the foods and recipes and logs the entries for you. After a couple of weeks of normal use, most of what you eat regularly is already in your own list — and it's more accurate than a generic database, because the values are the ones you entered.
Tap any food on the Foods page to edit its name, brand, serving size, macros, extended nutrients, barcode and image. A value looked wrong after a scan? Fix it here — the change only affects your copy, and every entry that already used the old value keeps it (only new entries use the corrected one).
If the same food ends up added twice — once by hand, once from a scan — a banner at the top of the Foods page flags likely duplicates. Open it to merge them: pick which one to keep, and every diary entry, recipe and favorite that pointed at the other one is moved over before it's removed.
Labels are short English words for what a food physically is — banana, bread, bottle — even if its name is in German. They make search smarter: searching "bread" finds a food named "Vollkornbrot" once it's labelled. Scanning a barcode fills them in automatically from the product's category; edit them yourself from the food's edit form.
iPhone Visual Intelligence can also match what the camera sees to a labelled food in your database — see iPhone & Android extras.
Add a photo to a food from its edit form — it shows up next to the food everywhere it's listed, which makes scanning a long list for the right item faster than reading names.
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