Hi Product Hunt, I'm Anthony, I make Palate.

Some afternoons I was useless after lunch and had no idea why. Calorie counters never helped, because the question wasn't how much I ate. It was what I ate, and how I felt after. So that's all Palate asks.

You type what you ate in plain words, like "eggs and toast with butter", and it picks out the ingredients. A few hours later you rate your energy, mood and digestion from 1 to 5. Once an ingredient has a few meals and check-ins behind it, Palate compares it with your own average and says so in a sentence, like "Your energy tends to dip after meals with cheese."

What it does:

- Plain-text meal logging, with ingredients detected from a library of 200+ tags

- Quick check-ins for energy, mood and digestion, and optional reminders at breakfast, lunch and dinner

- Patterns per ingredient, always compared with your own average

- With Pro: weekly and monthly reports, trend charts, and deeper patterns across ingredient pairs, time of day and day of week

Free covers unlimited logging and check-ins, ingredient detection and insights over your last 30 days. Pro is a one-time purchase that adds reports, trend charts, deep patterns, meal photos, your own ingredient tags, full-history analysis and export. No subscription.

It doesn't diagnose anything and it won't tell you you're intolerant to a food. It shows what lines up in your own data, which is worth taking to a doctor or dietitian if it matters to you.

Privacy, plainly: no account needed, no ads, works offline, and the analysis runs on your phone, with no AI or cloud model involved. If you want your log on another device, Sapplify Sync is free and opt-in, encrypted in transit and at rest on EU servers, not end to end. There's anonymous usage analytics, and you can switch it off in the app.

It's on Android and Huawei AppGallery today; the iPhone version is in App Store review.

Which food do you suspect but have never actually checked?