Can I look up food details from the nutrition meal id?

The meal id in a nutrition payload is a provider-specific passthrough identifier and cannot be looked up via the API to retrieve food details.

The meal id in a nutrition payload is a provider-specific passthrough identifier and cannot be looked up via the API to retrieve food details.

For many sources (such as Apple Health) the name is driven by what the user types and is often empty, with no upstream way to fill it.

The substantive data lives in the macros and micros objects. If a NOT NULL constraint blocks saving, use a fallback such as Untitled meal or <meal_type> at <timestamp>.