For cholesterol · Updated October 2026

A food journal for a lower cholesterol diet

The American Heart Association puts saturated fat at about 13 g a day on 2,000 calories, and one chicken Caesar salad carries an estimated 12 g. Tell Cloche what you ate or take a photo. It estimates the saturated fat, fiber and cholesterol in the plate.

Best for: People eating to lower cholesterol who want to see where the saturated fat comes from.
Price: Free on TestFlight. After that, logging stays free and meal readings cost $12.99 a month or $79 a year.

Made for iPhone. First invitations via TestFlight.

Chicken Caesar Salad, the plate this page reads — Chicken Caesar Salad 1 large bowl, logged at 12:30 pm
Estimated saturated fat · 12 g saturated fat

**12 g**Saturated fat, 91% of 13 g, a sample amount for a day, not your target

**6.5 g**Fiber, 23% of 28 g, a sample amount for a day, not your target

**140 mg**Cholesterol, 47% of 300 mg, a sample amount for a day, not your target

Sample reading from Cloche’s nutrient estimates, with reference amounts for this demo. See how the estimates are checked against USDA reference foods.

Which plates carry most of a day’s saturated fat?

Saturated fat tells the liver to make more cholesterol and to pull less of it back out of the blood. These six carry the most in Cloche’s food data, next to the 13 g the demo compares against for a day. The Caesar salad above carries 12 g, close behind every plate on this list, which is the reason to log a salad at all. Recipes and portions vary.

Plate	Portion	Estimated saturated fat	Of 13 g reference
Chicken Curry with Rice	1 plate	16 g	122%
Mac and Cheese	1 bowl	16 g	119%
Pad Thai	1 plate	14 g	108%
Grilled Cheese	1 sandwich	14 g	105%
Steak	8 oz	14 g	105%
Cheeseburger	1 burger	13 g	96%

Estimates from Cloche’s food data, compared with the demo’s 13 g saturated fat reference for the day. These amounts are not measurements of your meal.

Why 13 g of saturated fat, and not the 20 g on the label?

Both numbers are real and they answer different questions. The American Heart Association puts the ideal at under 6% of the day’s calories, which is about 13 g on a 2,000-calorie day. The Daily Value printed on a nutrition label is 20 g, under 10%. Cloche reads a plate against the tighter figure and shows you the amount, so either one is yours to use.

Food is one part of it. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute describes medicine and eating changes as a combination. For many people the medicine moves the number further than the plate does. A falling result belongs to the treatment, not to a meal.

Your panel, your family history and any prescription belong in a conversation with your clinician. Cloche helps you read the food record between those visits.

Say what you ate. Cloche reads the saturated fat against your day.

If searching for every ingredient keeps you from logging meals, start with a sentence. Say “the chicken Caesar,” or take a photo. Cloche creates an entry you can review and correct.

See estimated calories, protein, carbs, fat and 26 nutrients, including saturated fat and fiber. A tracker would add the salad to a total. Cloche reads it for your cholesterol as it lands, then answers questions about the week. We check the estimates against USDA reference foods. They remain estimates.

Your doctor may be watching more than one number. Cloche reads the same plate for high blood pressure and fatty liver as well.

To check one meal right now, without the app, try the free saturated fat calculator.

A food list helps you shop. Your journal shows the week you ate.

Every 3 to 12 monthsa blood draw, often covered

A lipid panel
The panel measures the particles themselves, which no food estimate can do. It arrives a few times a year.

Cloche estimates the saturated fat in the meals between panels.
$60 to $80a year, listed

MyFitnessPal, Cronometer
Keep a record of foods and nutrients. Useful when you already have a logging routine that works.

A tracker adds the meal to a total. Cloche reads the same meal for your cholesterol and says what saturated fat it carried against the day, as you log it.
$0often, with insurance

A dietitian
Individual nutrition guidance, with someone who can help you make a plan.

Keep your doctor and dietitian involved. Cloche gives you a record of the meals between visits.
Freeno app, no notebook

Remembering it yourself
You know roughly what you ate. The amounts are the part that slips, and a week later so does the meal.

Cloche keeps the record and reads it for what you are watching, so the week is there when you want it.
Freefood guidance

A food list
A list of what to eat more of and less of, easy to keep at hand.

A list helps you plan. A journal adds a record of the meals you actually ate.
$79a year, or $12.99 a month

Cloche
A sentence or a photo becomes an entry, and it comes back read for what you are watching.

Ask which lunches carried the most saturated fat. Review and correct entries in the same conversation. Read our published accuracy check before relying on the estimates.

Other prices as listed on 6 September 2026; a year figure is the listed monthly price multiplied by 12. App Store ratings from the iTunes lookup on 12 September 2026. Cloche is free on TestFlight while we build, and nothing charges yet. Keep your doctor and your dietitian; Cloche is the part between visits.

An estimate of the plate. Never a promise about your next panel.

Cloche describes the food you log and estimates its nutrients. It does not promise that a plate will lower your cholesterol, and it never credits a result to a meal.

Your treatment and your targets belong to you and your clinician. Cloche does not ask about your medication.

Free on TestFlight while we build, then $12.99 a month.

Cloche is on TestFlight by invitation and free while it is. After that, logging stays free and meal readings will be $12.99 a month, or $79 a year. Nothing charges yet.

Join the waitlist for an invitation to describe a meal, review its nutrient estimate and ask which plates carried the most saturated fat. Your invitation comes from [email protected].