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Heartburn meal checker: will this meal bother you tonight?
A large, fatty dinner within three hours of bed is the meal most likely to bring on heartburn. Type a meal or snap a photo, and pick when you ate it. See its fat, its size and how close it sits to bedtime.
- Best for checking tonight’s dinner
- Free, no account, no email
- Results in a few seconds
- Estimated from USDA values
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What makes a meal more likely to cause heartburn?
The American College of Gastroenterology’s 2022 guideline recommends not eating within two to three hours of lying down. The evidence for cutting single foods is weaker, and it suggests avoiding only the foods that bother you.
Fat slows how fast the stomach empties, and a big meal stretches it. The checker compares your meal with 35 g of fat, a sample amount Cloche uses for one meal, not a guideline number.
Which everyday plates carry the most fat?
These six plates carry the most fat in Cloche’s food data, next to 35 g for one meal.
| Plate | Portion | Estimated fat | Of 35 g in one meal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steak | 8 oz | 36 g | 103% |
| Cheeseburger | 1 burger | 34 g | 97% |
| Chicken Caesar Salad | 1 large bowl | 30 g | 86% |
| Cheesecake | 1 slice | 28 g | 80% |
| Pepperoni Pizza | 2 slices | 28 g | 80% |
| Chicken Burrito | 1 burrito | 28 g | 80% |
How does the heartburn checker work?
Describe the meal and pick the time. Cloche splits it into foods, estimates the fat and calories from USDA values, and reads the meal against the hour you ate. It can’t know your own foods; a journal kept for two weeks shows those.
For the whole day, not one meal, see Cloche for heartburn. More free tools: the saturated fat calculator and the fiber calculator. Every number is an estimate; we publish how far off the estimates run against USDA reference foods.
Questions people ask
How long before bed should I stop eating for acid reflux?
Two to three hours, by the American College of Gastroenterology’s 2022 guideline. Raising the head of the bed helps with night-time symptoms.
What foods cause heartburn the most?
Fatty and fried food, large meals, alcohol, coffee, chocolate, mint, citrus, tomato and spicy food are the usual ones, but they differ from person to person.
Is a high-fat meal worse for reflux?
Fat slows how fast the stomach empties, which keeps it full longer. A large, fatty meal late in the evening is a common pattern behind night-time heartburn.
How do I find my own heartburn foods?
Keep a food journal with the time of each meal for two weeks and note the nights with symptoms. The pattern shows which meals and hours to change.
Find your own heartburn meals
Cloche is a food journal for iPhone. It keeps the hour of every meal with its fat and size, so after a bad night you can see what you ate and when.
Cloche is on TestFlight, Apple’s app for trying an app before its release. It’s free while it is. Leave your email and the invite comes from [email protected].