For clinics and diabetes educators
A carbohydrate log for an Indian kitchen, and the lines it will not cross
Kulraise is a family app. One part of it keeps a carbohydrate and blood-sugar log for a child, using a food table written for Indian portions. This page is for you rather than for a parent: what it records, what it refuses to do, and what we are not claiming. It prints to one sheet.
What it never does
It never calculates or suggests an insulin dose, and there is no route in the software by which it could. Carbohydrate grams, a blood-sugar reading and a ratio from you are the three inputs to that arithmetic; the app deliberately puts all three on one screen so that whoever does it can see them, and does none of it.
Carbohydrate is a range, never a point. Two kitchens do not make the same thepla. A single figure would claim a precision the underlying measurement does not have, and a number a family chose and a number an app chose look identical to you three weeks later.
Every figure is credited on the screen — our own starting figure, a packet, or a dietitian’s number for that family’s own kitchen. Where nobody has measured something, the field stays empty rather than getting a plausible guess.
It is not a medical device and does not try to be one. It gives no advice, no alerts about what to do, and no interpretation of a reading.
What it records
- Blood-sugar readings with the time each was taken, and the context a family gives them.
- Food eaten, with a carbohydrate range attached and the portion in the family’s own words.
- Insulin doses that somebody has already decided and given, recorded after the fact.
- A report that puts the lot in a readable shape for an appointment, and a CSV if you would rather have the rows.
The food table
A little over a hundred Indian dishes, by the portion a kitchen actually serves them in, with the carbohydrate as a range and the source of each figure named beside it. It is readable without an account, so you can look at it now and a parent can use it without installing anything.
See the tableA family’s own dietitian beats our table, always, and the app is built to take your figure and keep your name on it.
What we are not claiming
Two families use Kulraise. There is no trial, no evidence that it improves anything clinically, and we are not going to pretend otherwise to you.
The Indian randomised trial of carbohydrate counting against a fixed meal plan (125 children aged 6–18, six months, Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2024) found HbA1c was not significantly different between the groups — 8.9% to 8.6% with counting, 9.1% to 8.8% without. What did move was diabetes distress, significantly lower in the counting group.
So the honest claim is the small one: a log can make the same day take less out of a family, and give them something real to bring to you instead of a memory.
What it costs a family
The health side is free on every plan, for everybody, and always has been. Not a trial and not a tier — there is no setting anywhere in the app that turns it off. Nothing about it is behind a payment, and no card is ever taken.
Something better than this page
If you are handing a newly diagnosed family one thing, make it the free ISPAD and Life for a Child book, Healthy Eating and Carbohydrate Counting for Children and Adults with Type 1 Diabetes: Indian Foods (2021). It will do more for them in an evening than any app will do in a month.
Download it (free, PDF)If you want to give a parent something
Print this page — it is laid out to come out as one sheet — or just say the address out loud: kulraise.com/clinics. If you would rather ask something first, the help pages say who can see what, and there is a way to reach us there.
Kulraise is an organisational aid for families. It is not a medical device, gives no medical advice, and never suggests an insulin dose.