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Does food ever feel… off?
Too dry. Too sticky. Hard to chew. Hard to swallow. Fine one day and difficult the next.
Food Feel helps you put words to what you notice across foods, drinks and pills. Those words become a picture you can keep, track and share.
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Understand
Put words to what you notice.
Track
See what changes over time.
Learn
Without being diagnosed.
Which of these sounds familiar?
Pick the one closest to you and we will start there. You can change your mind at any point. Nothing here is scored, and nothing you tap decides what your profile says.
You are not the only one
This is far more common than it feels.
Trouble with swallowing is usually managed quietly. People cut food smaller, take smaller sips, avoid the bread, sit a bit longer at the table, and say nothing about any of it for years.
15 million
adults in the United States reported a swallowing problem in a single year.
5.91 in every 100 adults
US adults, National Health Interview Survey, 2022. Bhattacharyya et al., American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2024.
15 to 22%
of older adults living at home are affected.
Out of every 100 older adults at home
Community-dwelling adults over 50. ASHA Practice Portal, Adult Dysphagia, 2024.
Fewer than 1 in 4
people with a swallowing problem saw a health professional about it.
1 spoke to someone. 3 did not.
US adults reporting a swallowing problem, National Health Interview Survey. Disparities in self-reported dysphagia and treatment among U.S. adults, 2022.
About 1 in 4
adults has heard of the medical word for it, compared with 99 in 100 for insomnia.
Recognise the word
- Dysphagia25 in 100
- Insomnia99 in 100
2,000 US adults, census-matched survey. Assessing Public Awareness and Understanding of Dysphagia, 2025.
“It feels weird when I eat” is hard to say out loud. Harder still to a doctor.
Food Feel gives you the words. You decide who sees them.
Start my Food Feel ProfileNothing else asks this.
Swallowing apps teach exercises. Food trackers count calories.
Neither has a box for “it felt stuck”, or “dinner was fine tonight”.
Every number above counts groups of people in published research, not you. Food Feel does not diagnose anything.
Explore
Different things feel different going down.
Drinks move fast. Dry food needs saliva. A pill is nothing like a bite of anything. Food Feel walks you through all seven, and you skip whatever you never eat.
The same bowl
Same food. Different story.
Smooth to one person, sticky to the next.
Easy on Tuesday, hard on Thursday. The granola is the best part or the entire problem.
A month later, “it was fine, mostly” tells you nothing. Food Feel keeps the words you picked, and when.
Start my Food Feel Profile
People described this same bowl as:
smoothcrunchystickydryHow it works
Your free profile, in four steps.
Describe your experience
Tell us what you notice with different foods, drinks and pills. No right answers, and skip anything you never eat.
See your profile
A visual summary of what you said: every item on the meter, where you felt things, and what stood out.
Track over time
Log meals in seconds and watch what changes. One snapshot is useful. A month of them is more so.
Learn and get support
Short lessons picked from your own answers, and a clear account of when something is worth asking about.
Your result
You see the whole thing, immediately.
No email, no account, no paywall. Not on the summary, not on the charts, and never on safety information.
- A plain-language summary, built only from what you selected
- Every item on the difficulty meter, and where you felt things
- No score, no risk level, no diagnosis anywhere in it
- Save it as a PDF, or take it to an appointment
How each kind went
- PillsDifficult to Very difficult
- DryTakes some work
- ChewyEasy to Takes some work
- DrinksVery easy
Where it was felt
Example answers. Food Feel describes what you noticed. It never gives a score, a risk level, or a diagnosis.
Tracking
One profile is a snapshot. Tracking shows the story.
A comfortable meal takes one tap. A harder one asks what you noticed, where, when, and what helped. After a few weeks, patterns you could not see in one sitting become obvious.
- No streaks, no scores, no good or bad days
- Comfortable meals count, not just the hard ones
- Your words stay yours: never read by anything automatic
Step 1 of 2
What did you have?
Log one of these again
- Morning tablets
- Porridge
- Tea and toast
Pick something you logged before. One tap.
Create a free account after your profile to keep it and start tracking.
Learn
Understand the things you notice.
Plain-language explanations of how eating and swallowing actually work. Every page says what it does not know, and when something is worth asking a professional about.
Why can pills feel harder to swallow?
A pill is small, but it behaves nothing like food. Here is what actually changes how a pill feels going down, and what to ask your pharmacist.
Read itWhy do dry or sticky foods feel so different?
Dry, sticky, crunchy and mixed foods each cause trouble in a completely different way. Here is what each one is actually doing.
Read itWhat does it mean when food feels stuck?
"It feels stuck" is one of the most common things people say and one of the least specific. Location and timing are what turn it into useful information.
Read it
Designed with swallowing expertise.
The vocabulary, the difficulty meter and the body map all came out of clinical work on how people describe eating and swallowing. Food Feel is an educational tool rather than a clinical test, and it says so everywhere it matters, including on every lesson a clinician has not yet signed off.
How Food Feel was madeYour answers are yours.
- The profile works with no account and never leaves your browser until you choose to save it
- No advertising pixel or third-party tracker exists anywhere in this product
- Nothing you type is ever read, interpreted or sold
- Take everything out, or delete all of it, whenever you like
Food feels different for everyone. Start with yours.
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