What is a food group in the flexible meal plan?

The idea of a flexible meal plan is to give the patient more options. That’s why each meal in a flexible plan is organized in groups. A group contains foods that can replace one another. If you put, for example, 70 g of kiwi, 1 cup of banana and 7 strawberries in a group, the patient can choose any of those foods, in its quantity.

In other words, you’re telling the patient “pick any of these 3 options”. A meal can have several groups: for example, a fruit group and a dairy group for breakfast.

In the flexible editor, each group appears as Group 1, Group 2, and so on, with the number of options it has. To build them:

• + Group adds a new group to the meal.
• The group’s search bar adds options one by one.
• The green + button next to the search bar (Add equivalents group) adds foods from one of your equivalents groups in one go. You create those groups in the Equivalents section of the sidebar. We explain it in How do I add an equivalent food?.

Since the patient eats only one option from each group, the meal’s calories and macros are calculated from the average of the options.

If you want the patient to eat 2 or more foods from a group, say so in that meal’s comment.