Tracked as a goal
Water tracking
- Unit
- ml
- Default goal
- 2,500 ml
- Direction
- Reach
What it is, and why people track it
Water arrives two ways and only one of them involves a glass. Dietary surveys put the food share of total intake at roughly 20–30% for most adults, and higher for anyone eating a lot of fruit, vegetables, soup or yogurt.
Almost no food tracker counts it, because water content is an optional field in the food databases they are built on and it changes with preparation in ways those entries rarely capture. The result is an app that knows you ate a bowl of soup and still says you have had no water today.
Setting your number
AIM targets 2,500 ml a day of total water, food included. That is deliberately higher than a drinks-only target would be, because it is counting a different thing — comparing it against a “eight glasses” rule of thumb is comparing two different quantities.
How good is the estimate?
Good for whole foods with well-known water content, and better than the alternative in every case, because the alternative is counting it as zero.
Questions
- Does the water in food count toward hydration?
- Yes. Food typically supplies 20–30% of daily water intake, and it is absorbed the same way water from a glass is.
- Can I still log drinks?
- Yes — say “large glass of water” and it goes into the same total. AIM does not keep two separate hydration numbers.
Track water without a database search
AIM estimates it on every meal from a photo or a sentence, and lets you correct anything it got wrong just by saying so.