Food Measurement Unit: the Google Health API food-measurement-unit data type

Food Measurement Unit at a glance

From the Food Measurement Unit row of Google’s data-types table, joined to the discovery document’s DataPoint schema.

Display name

Food Measurement Unit

dataType (in endpoint URLs)

food-measurement-unit

filter parameter

food_measurement_unitGoogle: “The identifier separated by underscores (for example, active_minutes) used as the value for the dataType filter parameter in daily rollup and rollup requests.”

Record type

Food — Google: “Represents a food item or nutrition-related data entity.”

Storage resolution

not stated in Google’s table

Webhook support

Not marked in Google’s table

True zeros support

Not marked in Google’s table

Channel

v4

DataPoint field

DataPoint.foodMeasurementUnit → FoodMeasurementUnitMatched by the kebab-case rule; its description: “Optional. The food measurement unit details.”

Compatible devices

16 in Google’s table

Operations and request paths

The operations Google’s table lists for food-measurement-unit, each matched to its users.dataTypes.dataPoints method in the discovery document. The path is the documented path template (the method’s flatPath on https://health.googleapis.com/) with {dataTypesId} filled in as food-measurement-unit. Google on {user}: “The {user} can be either the alias me or the authenticated user's numeric Health User ID (retrieved via GetIdentity).”

Every method, and how many of the data types list it: the methods overview.

Scopes

The scopes Google’s table lists for food-measurement-unit, as full URLs, with the consent text Google’s Scopes page gives each. Every Google Health API scope.

Fields of Food Measurement Unit

The schema the discovery document gives DataPoint.foodMeasurementUnit, required fields first. Types are as the discovery document states them; the label is the word Google’s description opens with. The schemas its fields refer to follow, one level deep.

Fitbit Web API predecessor

Fitbit Web API scopes Google maps to food-measurement-unit’s scopes: nutrition.

Google’s full Fitbit Web API mapping tables · the migration playbook

Where Google’s pages disagree

Published as found, with the texts that disagree; nothing here is corrected by us.

• Scope missing from the discovery document

  The table lists .nutrition.readonly for food-measurement-unit, but the v4 discovery document defines no https://www.googleapis.com/auth/googlehealth.nutrition.readonly scope, and none of its methods accepts it.

  • Google's data-types page: “.nutrition.readonly”
  • Google's Scopes page: “See your Google Health nutrition data.”

Compatible devices

The 16 devices Google’s table lists as able to record and sync food-measurement-unit.

• Fitbit Air
• Fitbit Blaze
• Fitbit Charge 2
• Fitbit Charge 3
• Fitbit Charge 4
• Fitbit Ionic
• Pixel Watch
• Pixel Watch 2
• Pixel Watch 3
• Pixel Watch 4
• Fitbit Sense
• Fitbit Sense 2
• Fitbit Versa
• Fitbit Versa 2
• Fitbit Versa 3
• Fitbit Versa 4