What Bolus does and does not do

Bolus keeps to one job and does it well: taking the weight off deciding what to eat. It is worth being clear about what that includes, and what it does not.

What Bolus does

• Plans your meals a week at a time, around your tastes, your diet, and how much time you want to spend cooking.
• Builds your shopping list to match, grouped by aisle and sized into sensible amounts.
• Adapts each week based on what you liked and what actually happened.
• Shows your glucose, movement and weight back to you to reflect on, if you connect a monitor or Apple Health.
• Coaches you on the food side, through Emily, if you subscribe to Bolus Premium. See what Emily is.

What Bolus does not do

• It does not deliver food. You buy the ingredients yourself, in whichever shop you like.
• It does not give medical or dosing advice. Bolus is not a medical device and does not tell you how to manage your diabetes. See is Bolus a medical device.
• It does not make you describe your food or count calories. Marking each planned meal as eaten, skipped, or eaten out is the whole of it. See Bolus’s approach to nutrition for why.
• It does not predict or manage your glucose. If you connect a monitor, what you see is a look backwards. Bolus does not forecast a reading, promise an outcome from a meal, or change your food because of one. See how your glucose is used.
• It does not score you. No streaks, no grades, and nothing to fail. A week with three meals out is a normal week.
• It does not replace your care team. Carry on with your doctor, nurse, or diabetes team exactly as you do now.

It is not for everyone

Bolus is for adults in the UK making their own day-to-day food choices. It is not suitable for anyone receiving specialist dietary treatment or who needs a medically prescribed diet, including in relation to pregnancy, gestational diabetes, active eating disorders, advanced kidney disease, gastroparesis or recurrent severe hypoglycaemia. The disclaimer you accept at setup lists this in full.

Bolus handles the food side so you have fewer decisions to make. Everything to do with your treatment stays where it belongs, with you and the people who look after your care.