RenalShield

Food screening, daily budget, journal, and cookbook cross-reference

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Patient-built educational tool

Patient-built · every table · no login required

A clearer next choice, wherever you are starting.

For people living with kidney disease, the people who cook beside them, and anyone learning to read what they consume. Compare the label in your hand without pretending one diet fits every body.

Photo companion: meals, shopping & cooking · Choose a preset or paste a label. RenalShield flags hidden phosphate additives, potassium additives, sodium load, and practical cookbook swaps.

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Screen a Food

Scan a Barcode

Today

Private by design: this log stays in this browser. RenalShield does not upload it to a shared server.

Quick Add

Common foods can auto-fill from the built-in table; presets fill immediately.

Logged

Journal non-diagnostic

Private by design: check-ins and labs stay in this browser. Clear this site's browser data to remove them.

Daily Check-In

Labs

Recent

VIP / Family Access

Have a VIP code from someone? Redeem it for full premium access — no ads, Dietitian mode on, and a VIP badge.

Your Care-Team Targets

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.

Your Private Browser Data

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.

Special Considerations

Diabetes + Kidney Toolkit

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 toolkit

About and Support

Meet the patient-builder behind RenalShield, review the product boundary, or send a non-sensitive site question.

Credentialed reviewers wanted

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 call

XREF Cookbook

RenalShield Cookbook Index

RenalShield is the active screening and XREF app. NSP cookbook pages stay linked as source archives and public excerpts.

NSP Source Migration Queue

Import-first items should become structured recipes. Supporting lists feed shopping rules, reject lists, and XREF flags.

Structured Candidates

Renal Coach educational, not medical advice

Ask about foods on your renal diet

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.

Try one

Ask a question and the coach's answer will appear here.

Renal Resources books, guides & tools

Companion resources for life on dialysis and CKD — kidney-aware recipes, caregiver guides, and trackers. Digital delivery via Gumroad. Educational materials, not medical advice.

Plans and Licensing

Launch posture

Support RenalShield

RenalShield's screener, scanner, and coach are free for kidney patients. A $5/month supporter subscription pays for hosting and development — it does not unlock medical features, and canceling never removes access to the app.

Become a supporter — $5/month

Payments are processed by Stripe. Educational tool, not medical advice.

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