Meal glucose response

Meal glucose response is the per-dish view: not how your glucose went in general, but how it went after this particular meal, drawn from the times you have eaten it.

It needs a connected CGM, and it is part of Bolus Premium. Your trace and your time in range stay free.

Reading it

Dishes are grouped by breakfast, lunch and dinner, and each sits on a shared scale marked at 4, 10 and above. A dish that has not come round often enough yet says so, for example “Eat 2 more times to see impact”, rather than drawing a line through a single sitting.

Tap a dish to open its own page: the curve of the hours after eating, with the median and the spread around it, and the figures underneath.

The figures

• Times eaten — how many sittings the curve is built from.
• Avg peak — the average highest value after the meal.
• Normal — the share of readings between 4 and 10.
• Peak time — how long after eating the peak typically came.

Why a dish is not there yet

Three things have to line up: you marked the meal as eaten, your sensor was sharing readings around it, and the dish has come round enough times to say anything useful about. Until then Bolus tells you what is missing rather than drawing something it cannot stand behind.

It also needs your meal times to be roughly right, so readings line up with the correct meal. If you ate at a very different time, correct it on the meal. See cooking effort and meal times.

What this is not

It is not a prediction, a diagnosis or dosing guidance, and Bolus does not promise a glucose outcome from any meal. What happened after a meal depends on much more than the meal.

If something here concerns you, it is a good thing to take to your diabetes team, and Emily can put it into a summary for them. See a summary for your care team.

On the free tier

The card shows that a ranking exists without naming a dish or a verdict, and offers Premium. Nothing you already had is taken away: your day chart and your time in range are free. See what is free and what is Premium.