About FoodTrigger AI

Food problems aren't always obvious. That's why I built FoodTrigger AI.

Hi, I'm Sherry Hayes, founder of FoodTrigger AI.

I didn't set out to build a food tracking app.

It started with my family.

First, it was my mom.

After my mom had her gallbladder removed, her stomach never seemed to settle down.

Certain meals would bother her more than others. Sometimes she would be fine after eating, only to have stomach problems later. That made figuring out the cause incredibly frustrating.

Was it something she just ate? Something from lunch? Dairy? Fat? An ingredient hidden in a sauce?

Trying to remember every meal and connect it to a symptom hours later quickly turns into guesswork.

So I started researching.

I read about digestion after gallbladder removal, food sensitivities, IBS, common food triggers, and why the timing of symptoms matters.

Then food triggers became personal for another reason.

Then, it was my son Caleb.

Caleb was always breaking out.

His skin would get red, irritated, and itchy. I finally took him to his doctor, and she told me he had eczema.

Knowing it was eczema answered one question, but it gave me another:

What kept making it flare up?

I started paying much closer attention to what Caleb ate.

And this was a kid who loved pasta. All pasta.

Mac and cheese was his absolute favorite. He drank milk throughout the day, ate bread regularly, and pasta was a normal part of his meals.

As I watched his food and his skin more closely, we began noticing that foods containing gluten seemed to line up with his flare-ups. He eventually stopped eating regular bread, and we started paying much more attention to the wheat and gluten in the foods he ate.

Milk was something we watched separately, too. It wasn't about blaming every food he loved. It was about figuring out whether there was actually a pattern.

That experience taught me something I wish I had understood much earlier:

A food trigger isn't always obvious right after you eat it.

Sometimes enough time passes that you never think to connect the symptom with the food.

Two different problems. The same frustrating question.

My mom was dealing with digestive symptoms.

Caleb was dealing with skin flare-ups.

Their problems were different, but I kept running into the same question:

What did they eat before this happened?

And more importantly, was it happening often enough to be a real pattern or was it just coincidence?

I spent months researching food triggers, digestion, IBS, eczema, food sensitivities, and the connection between food and symptoms.

The more I learned, the more I realized how difficult it is for a regular person to keep all that information straight.

You can write everything in a notebook.

You can try to remember yesterday's meals.

You can scroll through pictures on your phone.

You can eliminate half your diet because you think something is bothering you.

But none of those approaches make it easy to look across days or weeks and ask:

What keeps showing up before my bad days?

That question became FoodTrigger AI.

What FoodTrigger AI does

FoodTrigger AI was created to make food and symptom tracking easier.

Instead of relying on memory, you can keep your meals and symptoms together in one place.

Snap a photo of your food or log your meal manually. Record how you feel afterward. Over time, FoodTrigger AI helps you look for ingredients and foods that repeatedly appear before your symptoms.

The goal isn't to tell you, "This food is definitely the problem."

The goal is to help you notice patterns worth paying attention to.

• Maybe dairy keeps appearing before your worst bloating.
• Maybe certain high-fat meals seem to line up with urgent bathroom trips.
• Maybe wheat keeps showing up before days when you don't feel your best.
• Or maybe the food you were blaming turns out not to be the problem at all.

That information can give you a much better starting point.

Why not just use a normal food diary?

You absolutely can.

In fact, I believe tracking on paper is better than not tracking at all.

The problem comes when you have two weeks of meals, ingredients, symptoms, times, stress levels, and notes and then have to figure out what all of it means.

That's the tedious part I wanted FoodTrigger AI to help with.

You shouldn't need a spreadsheet and a detective board covered in red string just to figure out what you ate Tuesday. 😊

FoodTrigger AI keeps your history together so you can look for repeated patterns instead of depending on memory.

Built to help you have a better conversation with your doctor

What it can do is help you walk into an appointment with something more useful than:

"My stomach hurts sometimes, but I'm not sure what causes it."

You can have a record of what you ate, when symptoms happened, how strong they were, and which foods or ingredients appeared repeatedly beforehand.

That gives you and your healthcare provider something concrete to discuss.

What I believe

Why I'm still working on FoodTrigger AI

FoodTrigger AI grew from watching people I love struggle with two very different problems.

I couldn't cure my mom's stomach problems.

I couldn't make Caleb's eczema disappear overnight.

But I could find a better way to pay attention.

That's really what FoodTrigger AI is about.

Pay attention. Keep a record. Look for patterns. Stop guessing.

If you've ever found yourself wondering, "What did I eat that made me feel like this?" then I built FoodTrigger AI for you.

Ready to start looking for your patterns?

You don't have to change your entire diet today.

Start with your next meal.

Log what you eat. Track what happens afterward. Give yourself enough time to see whether a pattern begins to appear.

FoodTrigger AI is a tracking and pattern-identification tool. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Persistent, severe, or concerning symptoms should always be discussed with a qualified healthcare professional.