Heartful Sprout
The main patient app for pediatric nutrition. Best when your work with the family centers on what they're feeding — meal planning, food exploration, recipes, allergen tracking, healthy-eating education.
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Quick facts
| Best age range | 6 mo through toddler+ |
| Primary user | Parent / caregiver |
| Premium | Paid in-app, or granted on provider invitation |
| Auth | Email + biometric login (Face ID / fingerprint) |
Tabs
| Tab | What's there |
|---|---|
| Home | Recipe feed (For You + Following); food introduction tracker; guided in-app tours |
| Meal Plan | Calendar with 6 meal slots; auto-generation; MyPlate visualization; live nutrition recompute |
| Health | Growth chart (CDC/WHO); feeding, diaper, pumping logs; food reactions; formula picker; your session notes |
| Grocery | Auto-generated lists from the meal plan; barcode scanning |
| Community | Stream Chat channels, DMs, recipe sharing |
| My Page | Profile, kid profiles, connected providers, account |
Meal Plan tab — deeper detail
The tab most patients spend time in when you're doing nutrition counseling.
Meal slots
Six slots per day, planned independently:
- Breakfast
- AM Snack
- Lunch
- PM Snack
- Dinner
- Night Snack
Generation & editing
- Auto-generate per slot, using the patient's age, allergens, dietary preferences, and provider-set DRI targets
- Or pick manually from the USDA ingredient database + recipe library
- Real-time nutrition recompute when items are added, swapped, or removed
- MyPlate-style food-group donut visualization on each meal
Where your prescribed plans land
If you've published a meal plan in Step 4 of a session, it lands in this tab automatically. The family sees it as a prescribed plan from you.
Health tab — deeper detail
The home of patient-logged health data, plus your session notes.
| Section | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Growth chart | Weight, length, BMI plotted on CDC/WHO percentiles; metric/imperial toggle |
| Feeding | Breast / bottle / pumping sessions with timer + volume |
| Diaper | Wet, soiled, mixed, clean counts |
| Reactions | Food reactions with severity, date, suspect foods, free-text notes |
| Ingredient introduction | Allergen-aware progress |
| Formula picker | 1000+ USDA formulas with brand/variant lookup, mix ratio, per-formula nutrition |
| Provider Notes | Your session notes, timestamped and collapsible |
| Nutrition report | 7-day rollup with macro donut, food-group breakdown, allergen summary |
Grocery tab
Auto-populates from the active meal plan. Supports barcode scanning to add packaged foods, with NutriSense / NOVA scoring, allergen / additive / choking-hazard warnings, and full nutrition facts panels.
Community tab
Patient social layer (Stream Chat). Topic-based channels, threaded replies, URL previews, unread badges, DMs with avatars, user following, discovery feed, recipe sharing with likes and comments.
Heads-up: clinicians can be the subject of patient discussion here. Worth knowing it exists; you don't manage it.
What you see when connected
When a patient has accepted your invitation with provider connection and given HIPAA consent, the following flows back to your patient record:
- Feeding logs (breast, bottle, pumping)
- Growth measurements
- Food reactions and allergen exposure
- Meal-plan adherence
- Ingredient introduction progress
- Nutrition adherence vs. the DRI targets you set
For how to review this clinically, see Working together — between visits.
Onboarding & engagement
- In-app guided tours on every tab (powered by react-native-copilot)
- Push + email reminder cadence for incomplete onboarding
- Clinician-prefilled onboarding when the patient is invited from your practice
- Biometric login (Face ID / fingerprint) for fast return sessions
Premium gating
Most useful features for clinically-connected patients are unlocked when you invite them — see Subscription paths.