Read a label. Keep your notes. Bring questions to your care team.
Free food-label screening · no account needed
Enter ingredients and any listed nutrition amounts, or choose a food from the library. RenalShield is an educational tool for people living with CKD or dialysis and those who cook with them.
Educational, not medical advice. Your care team sets your personal targets.
Prefer a photo? Open Photo Companion. New to the tools? Find your starting point or explore the diabetes + kidney toolkit.
Copy what the package lists. Leave amounts blank when they are unknown; do not guess.
Nutrition per serving · optional
Or enter the barcode number
Private by design: this log stays in this browser. RenalShield does not upload it to a shared server.
Common foods can auto-fill from the built-in table; presets fill immediately.
Private by design: check-ins and labs stay in this browser. Clear this site's browser data to remove them.
Have a family or trial code? Redeem it here. Code access is separate from optional support and Consumer Plus subscriptions.
The examples below are educational only, not prescriptions. Personal targets vary with labs, treatment, urine output, medicines, and your care plan. Save values only when they came from your kidney or dialysis care team.
Educational examples — selecting one only fills the form. It does not make the values personal or save them.
Food logs, limits, check-ins, and lab notes stay in this browser. Export a private backup before clearing this device. Before restoring, RenalShield shows the selected backup's date and record counts. Restoring a backup replaces the health data currently in this browser. Exported files can contain sensitive health information—store them carefully.
Kidney-specific low-glucose and sick-day cautions, clinician-ready questions, trusted guidance, and a private browser-local pattern log. No medication changes and no one-size-fits-all targets.
Open the diabetes + kidney toolkitMeet the patient-builder behind RenalShield, review the product boundary, or send a non-sensitive site question.
RenalShield is recruiting renal dietitians, nephrology and dialysis clinicians, pharmacists, clinical-safety reviewers, and plain-language reviewers for bounded private assignments.
See the volunteer review callRenalShield is the active screening and XREF app. NSP cookbook pages stay linked as source archives and public excerpts.
Import-first items should become structured recipes. Supporting lists feed shopping rules, reject lists, and XREF flags.
Simple = plain language · Dietitian = clinical detail. Pick any language. The coach is constrained to RenalShield's food table, clinical knowledge base, and cookbook; values it cannot ground must be treated as unknown and confirmed clinically. Personal details are scrubbed before your question is sent.
Companion resources for life on dialysis and CKD — kidney-aware recipes, caregiver guides, and trackers. Digital delivery via Gumroad. Educational materials, not medical advice.
Start free. Support is optional. Professional use begins with a conversation.
Free personal use
Use food-label screening, barcode lookup, educational questions, guides, and your browser-local logs without an account.
Food logs and journal entries stay in this browser. Screening, barcode lookup, and the coach need an internet connection.
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Keep initial inquiries non-sensitive. Do not include patient information or medical records.