How Timiya works
Log a meal, check it, and see what your body is likely to take from it. The same plate can count for more or less, depending on how it was cooked and what you drank with it.
Step 1
Log it
Take a photo of your plate, now or later from your camera roll, or type what you ate in your own words. Pick the meal and the time, even yesterday’s dinner. Recent meals are a tap away.
Snap
Step 2
Check it
Timiya names the foods it sees and estimates how much of each you had, in portions you’d recognize. If it gets something wrong, you fix it before it counts. Then it asks up to three quick questions, such as when you had your tea or how the greens were cooked.
Confirm
Confirm your meal
Quick questions
2 quick questions
How were the greens cooked?
Did you have any tea or coffee around this meal?
Step 3
See it
Each meal shows you four things.
- How much of your day’s key nutrients it covered, in the ring.
- A quality band, for how good the food was for its size.
- Each nutrient, with what you ate, what it counts as, and why.
- Often, one simple change to try.
Same dinner, different greens
Ugali 300 g, sukuma wiki 150 g, and bean stew 200 g at dinner, for an adult woman.
The plate is the same both ways. With a little oil, the greens’ vitamin A counts in full: from 59% of the day’s target to 147%.
Greens boiled, no oil
Greens cooked without any fat give up much less vitamin A. A little oil next time helps.
Greens fried with oil
Why
Iron, eaten and counts as
- Vitamin C in the greens and tomatoes helps.
- Beans and maize hold on to some of their iron.
- The calcium in the meal gets in the way a little.
A change to try
Cook your greens with a little oil
Your body may need a little fat to use the vitamin A in leafy greens.
About these figures
Measured on Timiya’s current estimates (version 3), against the default targets for an adult woman. The ring is the meal’s score. The bars are shares of the day’s target.
Ideas for your next meal
Timiya suggests ideas for your next meal, and shows how much each could add to today.
Your targets
My nutritional targets lists every daily target and where it comes from. They follow your age, gender, activity, and pregnancy, and change with you.
Your day, week, and year
Every meal adds to today’s ring. After a week of logging, the Nutrition page sorts your nutrients into Watch, Improving, and Comfortable.
Today
Today’s nutritional completeness
After a week
Each week
What improved
Where to focus
Each nutrient
Below target on 20 of last 28 days
7-day trend
Below target on 5 of last 7 days
counts as 22% · eaten 77% (average)
Day by day
Iron, 7-day trend
Each month
Weekly: 26% → 31% → 38% → 45%
Weekly: 64% → 58% → 51% → 47%
Top food sources
The foods you eat that are richest in iron
Per 100 g · times you ate it
Your year
Your logging at a glance
As your log grows
With months of meals, Timiya is designed to spot your habits and help you build on them.
Your habits
Greens cooked without oil on most days this month.
A little oil helps your body use the vitamin A in greens. The peaks are the days you added it.
Seasons
Vitamin A · 12 months
Your vitamin A follows mango season
Changes that stick
Your changes · past 3 months
Which changes stuck
What it does for you
Iron · What it does
Iron helps your blood carry oxygen around your body.
Iron · What helps
Lemon or kachumbari with your beans helps. Tea right with the meal gets in the way.
Your plan
Iron · Your plan
Three changes, from foods you already eat
Lemon or kachumbari on beans
You do this at most bean meals.
Tea an hour after meals
You tried this for two weeks.
Add omena to a stew
A new food for you, rich in iron.
Your health, your way
Your clinic’s advice comes first. We ask before using your health details.
Goals
Choose what you’re working toward, and your targets and meal ideas follow.
Conditions, medicines, and clinic values
Watching your blood pressure? Add it as a goal. Timiya helps you keep an eye on salt. If your clinic gave you limits, add them and Timiya uses those.
Pregnancy and breastfeeding
Your targets change with each trimester and while you breastfeed, with food-safety notes such as skipping liver. Keep taking the supplements your clinic gave you. Check with your antenatal clinic.
Supplements
Tick off your supplements on Home, with tips on when to take them.
Fasting
Timiya doesn’t recommend fasting. If you already fast, tell it your days and times, and Home follows your fast. Check with your clinic first.
Diet and allergies
Tell Timiya how you eat and what you’re allergic to, and its ideas take that into account.
Your family
Add your children, aged 2 to 17, and log the family pot once. Each child gets a simple view of their week’s food, and their clinic comes first. Invite another adult, or let a carer log for you.
Your data
Meal photos are read by an AI service to spot the foods, and then you check them. We ask before using your health details. Download or delete them any time.
On your phone
Timiya opens in your phone’s browser, with nothing to download. Add it to your home screen and it opens like any other app.
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