Edit/delete food or recipe. Clear search history.

Open Manage My Foods from the Me tab and pick the Custom, Recipes or Meals tab. Tap the food, then choose an action from the menu that appears. Only custom foods and recipes can be removed, and they are hidden from future searches rather than deleted, because your past entries may still use them.

You can use Manage My Foods screen, available on the Me tab.

There, you can select the tab corresponding to the kind of food you want to update - either Custom, Recipes, or Meals, and locate the food in the list displayed.

Tap the food, and then, in the displayed popup menu, tap one of the actions. You can edit or update foods and recipes.

MyNetDiary and PlateAI do not delete foods completely as they might be used in a food log already. Still, you can "delete" a food, hiding it from future food searches (On the Android, the option is named Retire). Only custom foods or recipes can be deleted/retired:

What is Search history? Аfter you search for food and log it, this food will be displayed in future search results with these words, e.g., if you enter search "whole milk" and select "Milk whole 3.25% fat", in future search results, you'll see "whole milk" for food "Milk whole 3.25% fat". You can remove system food searches from history, so they do not appear instantly with the attached short names of your previous logs (you can find them anyway with their original names).

For more guidance, please check our Recipe Editor video.

Related questions

How do I edit or retire a custom food, recipe, or meal?

Open Manage My Foods from the Me tab, choose Custom, Recipes, or Meals, and locate the entry. Tap it to open the action menu, where a custom food or recipe can be edited or hidden from future searches by deleting or retiring it.

Why are foods retired instead of completely deleted?

A food may already be used in an existing food log, so MyNetDiary and PlateAI do not remove it completely. Deleting a custom food or recipe hides it from future food searches; on Android, this action is named Retire.

What does removing a food search from history change?

It removes the remembered search words and attached short name that appeared immediately from an earlier log. The system food itself is not removed; you can still find it later by searching for its original name.

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