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Castle Verde will teach you how to eat a balanced meal by showing you how unbalanced your meals are right now.
HOW TO USE THE APP
add items & get a glucose spike prediction
To get your glucose prediction score, start by entering the food you just ate — or plan to eat. You can do this in three simple ways:
- Scan the label using your phone’s camera to instantly upload the nutrition facts.
- Use voice input to say the meal out loud, like “frozen lasagna, one serving.”
- Use AI Fill — start typing the name of your food, and the system will autofill the nutrition info for you.
Once the item appears, take a moment to adjust the numbers. If you ate more than one serving, just double the portion. If you only had half, cut it down. You can edit protein, fat, carbs, sugar, and fiber to match your actual plate — not the packaging guess.
When it looks right, hit Analyze & Add to Cart. You’ll see your predicted glucose spike instantly, powered by the Castle Verde Index™.
The more accurate your entry, the more useful your prediction. If you're tracking a full meal, enter each food separately — the system will calculate the combined impact. No needles. No guesswork. Just data you can use right now.
UNDERSTAND YOUR PREDICTED SCORE
The gauge shows your predicted glucose spike based on the food you entered.
- 🟢 0–20 mg/dL = Balanced
- 🟡 21–30 mg/dL = Caution
- 🔴 31+ mg/dL = High Spike Risk
Your goal isn’t perfection — it’s progress. If your meal lands in the red, it doesn’t mean you failed. It means you now know, and you can adjust.
That smaller gray line? It shows your score if you had apple cider vinegar (ACV) before your meal. Just 1 tablespoon of ACV in water, taken 15–20 minutes before eating, can reduce your spike by up to 30% for some people.
Castle Verde doesn’t just show you the problem — it shows you how to fix it. Try sequencing your meal (protein → carbs → sugar), pair high-sugar foods with fiber or fat, and consider the ACV trick. These small actions can lead to real control.
this is what your ingredient label should look like
How to Read This Graph
The blue bars show the actual macros in your meal — what you just ate. The orange bars show what a balanced meal would look like, based on the mass of food you just entered.
The bigger the gap between blue and orange, the more unbalanced your meal is — and the more likely it is to spike your glucose.
In this example, your protein and fiber are way down balance, while your fat and fiber are lower than ideal. That imbalance is what pushes your glucose score into the red zone.
What is Anchoring?
The balance anchor lets you choose which macro to build your meal around. If you select protein, the graph shows what the other macros should be relative to your protein intake.
If you had 35g of protein, Macro5™ expects you to pair it with about 18g of fiber, 26g of fat, 9g of sugar, and 17g of net carbs for optimal balance.
You’re not just tracking numbers — you’re calibrating your meal. Anchoring helps you correct imbalance, one plate at a time.
this is the same meal as above...
Why the Graph Changes When You Change the Anchor
You're looking at the same meal — but the graph shifts depending on which macro you choose to anchor.
When you anchor by protein, the graph compares all other nutrients to your protein intake. When you anchor by carbs, it recalibrates everything around your carb intake instead.
This helps you see the imbalance from different angles.
If you anchor by protein and your sugar and carbs shoot way above the orange balance bars, it shows you're under-fueled in protein and overloaded in carbs.
Flip it, and you'll see that your protein and fiber might barely register compared to your carb anchor — a sign the meal is carb-dominant and likely to spike your glucose.
This feature teaches you to rethink your plate. Anchoring helps you understand not just what’s in your meal — but how unbalanced it is compared to what your body actually needs for stability.
Macro5™ isn't about perfection. It's about seeing the gap — and learning how to close it.
yes, you can keep your current diet... for now
If you’re not ready to change what you eat, start with how you eat it. Meshing softens the impact of sugar and carbs by eating protein, fat, or fiber first. Chicken before fries. Veggies before dessert. It’s a small shift that can lower your glucose spike by 10–15 mg/dL — without giving up the foods you love.
You could, in theory, keep your “bad” diet and still see benefits. But the real win is momentum. Once you see how much control you have, better choices come easier — and stick.
One more tip: chew well. Smaller bites mean more surface area for enzymes. Big chunks take more effort to digest — and that can trigger your liver to release extra glucose. Even small changes, like chewing slower, can move the needle.