Appetite Changes

Appetite Changes records a reported change in the desire to eat. It describes direction relative to the user’s usual appetite, not food consumed, nutritional adequacy or a diagnosis.

Unspecified is not noChange. These labels describe direction, not a severity ranking: averaging their integer codes does not produce a meaningful appetite score.

No. A decreased-appetite entry does not say how much was eaten, and an increased-appetite entry does not establish a calorie surplus. Dietary Energy Consumed is a separate food log, while Body Mass is a separately measured weight.

Compare these histories only when each has adequate coverage. An empty food log is not zero intake. Weight is best considered over repeated comparable measurements, rather than matched to an isolated appetite report. Nausea can be logged alongside appetite, but the category does not identify why appetite changed.

Entries follow the source’s logging behavior, with no fixed sensor sampling interval. Missing dates mean no available report, rather than an explicit negative observation. A saved interval need not describe a continuous episode, and overlapping records from different sources should be reviewed before counting reports or days.

This HealthKit type is not listed in the current PulsHealth sync catalog. The selected database review contained no corresponding records; that does not establish whether entries exist in Apple Health. No example distribution or logging cadence could be measured.