Recently Told You're Prediabetic? How PrediabetesBasket Can Help With Your Supermarket Shop
By PrediabetesBasket · Published · Last reviewed
PrediabetesBasket is designed to make your online supermarket shopping easier to understand if you’ve been told you are prediabetic — starting with what you already buy and suggesting practical changes based on your own shop.
No scanning. No meal photographs. No daily food logging. Just forward your online supermarket shop and let PrediabetesBasket do the analysis — and your first introductory basket analysis is free.
1. Forward your online receipt. Simply forward your eligible online supermarket receipt or order confirmation and PrediabetesBasket does the analysis for you. At the moment, PrediabetesBasket works with eligible online receipts and order confirmations from Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Ocado. It will analyse your shop and give you clear, personalised feedback based on what you actually buy. Support for more supermarkets may be added in the future. If you are not sure what to change first, you can start with the groceries you already buy.
2. See your Basket Score, Green, Amber and Red feedback — and what to do next. Your Basket Score out of 100 gives you a quick view of your overall shop, with a higher score reflecting more positive choices across the basket. Green highlights what is already going well and worth continuing. Amber shows areas worth another look, while Red highlights areas where a practical change may be useful. PrediabetesBasket explains why and gives you realistic swaps and alternatives to consider.
3. Learns your shopping habits and becomes bespoke to you. Paid members keep a rolling history of their latest five analysed receipts. PrediabetesBasket learns from your shopping habits, so the feedback becomes increasingly bespoke to you and can help highlight what to focus on in your next shop.
4. Built around real supermarket shopping. The suggestions are designed around the kind of shop you already make, with practical alternatives rather than an idealised meal plan.
Your first introductory basket analysis is free. You can try PrediabetesBasket using your own online supermarket shop and see how it works before deciding whether you want to continue.
Feedback Based on What You Actually Buy
PrediabetesBasket does not begin by giving everybody the same standard list of foods.
It begins with your own supermarket basket.
That means your feedback reflects the products you actually buy rather than a hypothetical shopping list created for somebody else.
Two people who are prediabetic may have completely different supermarket shops, so the areas highlighted in their analyses may be very different too.
The feedback starts with your shopping and your choices.
What Do Green, Amber and Red Mean?
PrediabetesBasket uses a simple traffic-light approach to make your analysis easy to follow.
Green highlights choices that are already looking positive and may be worth continuing.
Amber highlights something that may be worth looking at more closely. PrediabetesBasket explains why it has been highlighted and, where appropriate, suggests an alternative you could consider.
Red draws attention to an area where a practical change or swap may be useful.
Red does not mean you have had a “bad” shop, and Green does not mean you have achieved a perfect one.
The colours are there to make your feedback easier to understand, not to judge your choices.
Your Basket Score Gives You a Quick Overview
Alongside the Green, Amber and Red feedback, you receive a Basket Score out of 100.
The score gives you a quick overall view of your shop, while the explanations show you what is contributing to it.
A higher score reflects more positive choices across the basket.
The Basket Score is there to make the overall shop easier to understand before you look at the individual details, explanations and suggested swaps.
Learns From Your Shopping Over Time
Paid PrediabetesBasket members keep a rolling history of their latest five analysed receipts.
As that history builds, PrediabetesBasket learns more about your shopping habits, making the feedback increasingly bespoke to you and helping highlight what’s going well, what keeps appearing, and what may be worth focusing on in your next shop.
Built for Real Supermarket Shopping
PrediabetesBasket works with the products you actually buy, from the supermarket you already use.
The feedback and suggested alternatives are based on your real shop, rather than an idealised meal plan or a list of foods you would never normally buy.
The starting point is what is already in your basket.
That means you can see what is going well, what may be worth another look, and where a realistic change could make sense without feeling that you have to replace your entire weekly shop.
Your Basket Score Is Not a Medical Score
Your Basket Score is an educational assessment of your supermarket shop.
PrediabetesBasket is an educational service, not a medical app. It does not diagnose or treat prediabetes and is not intended to replace advice from your GP, diabetes nurse or registered dietitian.
Your Basket Score is not a blood glucose reading and does not measure your HbA1c.
It cannot tell you whether your prediabetes is improving or predict exactly how an individual food will affect your blood sugar.
Its purpose is much simpler: to give you clearer educational feedback about your supermarket shopping.