You've created a custom food, recipe or set, but it doesn't come up when you search in Add to Diary. It's almost always one of the reasons below.

The profile uses a different food database

Every action belongs to one food database — you chose it when you created the action — and every profile has its own food database too. An action only appears in a diary's search when the profile uses the same database the action was created in.

To check the two match:

  1. On the Actions page, find the item — each row shows the database it belongs to.
  2. From the diary you're searching in, select Profile in the header and check the Food database under Preferences.

If they differ, either switch the profile to the action's database — see Choose a food database — or recreate the action in the database the profile uses. An action's database is fixed once it's created — see Custom foods, recipes and sets.

A search filter is hiding it

In Add to Diary, the Food, Recipe and Set chips narrow the results to one type. If a chip is selected, items of the other types don't appear — clear it or pick the chip matching what you're looking for.

You're signed in to a different account

Actions live in the workspace that created them. If you have more than one Foodzone account, check you're signed in to the right one — your account email is shown in Settings.