Dexcom is continuing to evolve Stelo beyond basic glucose tracking, announcing a new wave of AI-powered features designed to help users better understand how food and daily habits affect their metabolic health.
Rolling out in the US over the coming weeks, the update expands Stelo’s ‘Smart Food Logging’ feature with a full nutrition database, giving users a more detailed picture of what’s on their plate—and how it connects to their glucose patterns.
Stelo, which launched last year as the first FDA-cleared over-the-counter glucose biosensor in the US, already introduced AI-assisted meal logging to reduce friction around tracking food.
With this update, Dexcom is adding a database of more than one million food items, offering automatic breakdowns of calories, carbohydrates, protein, fats, fibre, and other nutritional metrics for each logged meal.
Users will be able to log meals via text search, barcode scanning, or photos, to make food tracking faster and more intuitive.
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A refresh of Daily Insights
Alongside the nutrition upgrade, Dexcom is also redesigning Stelo’s Daily Insights feature.
The new interface uses a card-based layout that delivers up to three personalised insights each day, based on glucose trends, activity, sleep, and nutrition data from the previous day. These insights are designed to highlight specific behaviours and patterns, rather than just surface raw metrics.
A fourth card adds a more reflective layer, using behavioural science techniques to encourage users to act on what they’re seeing. Dexcom says the system maintains day-to-day context using AI, allowing recommendations to evolve as user habits change over time.
The company cites early user data suggesting that people who use Stelo for approximately 30 days often report improvements in eating habits, physical activity, and weight management—reinforcing the idea that real-time glucose feedback can drive broader lifestyle changes, even outside of clinical diabetes management.
The enhanced Smart Food Logging and redesigned Daily Insights will be available via a free app update for iOS and Android, with Dexcom also announcing a more comprehensive redesign of the Stelo app later this year.
