After-meal marker (an apple core)
This result is labelled as taken after a meal. The meter compares it with an after-meal range, which is usually wider than the before-meal one, and counts it in the after-meal average.
Check your meter’s manual — makers differ.
What it is for
Choose it when the manual says to: the Contour guide (Ascensia) says “within 2 hours after the first bite of a meal”. The Accu-Chek Guide (Roche) can also remind you to take an after-meal test (Post Meal reminder).
These pages report what each maker’s manual says and quote it wherever health is involved. They do not diagnose anything, they are not medical advice, and they never tell you how to treat a result; only your own meter’s manual and your healthcare team can do that for your model.
- What it looks like
- An apple core — the eaten apple, narrow in the middle with the top and bottom left — beside the result or in a list of tags.
- Names makers use
- After meal (Accu-Chek); After Meal marker (Contour); After Meal tag (OneTouch Verio Reflect)
Where makes differ
The three makers that use it pre-set the same after-meal range in these manuals, 70–180 mg/dL on the Accu-Chek Guide (Roche) and 70 to 180 mg/dL on the Contour Next One (Ascensia) and the OneTouch Verio Reflect (LifeScan), but each can be changed. The timing differs: Ascensia gives 2 hours after the first bite; the Roche and LifeScan manuals read do not give a time for the marker.
What it does not mean
It does not mean the result is high. It is not the fasting marker (a crossed-out apple on the Contour).
Other symbols with the same shapes
Sources
No published standard we could check defines blood glucose meter control icons, so this meaning is taken from 3 makers’ own manuals and support pages, each fetched and read on the date shown:
- Roche: Accu-Chek Guide blood glucose meter — user manual (US, PDF) — Symbol list: an apple core for After meal; After Meal Range “70–180 mg/dL (pre-set target range)”; Post Meal reminder. Checked 2026-09-28.
- Ascensia: CONTOUR NEXT ONE blood glucose monitoring system — user guide (US, PDF) — Symbol table: After Meal marker; About Meal Markers: “within 2 hours after the first bite of a meal”, After Meal Target Range preset to 70 mg/dL–180 mg/dL. Checked 2026-09-28.
- LifeScan: OneTouch Verio Reflect — owner’s booklet (US, PDF) — Meal and Event tags: After Meal tag (an apple core); After Meal range pre-set low limit 70 mg/dL, high limit 180 mg/dL. Checked 2026-09-28.
Written in our own words; quotations are the makers’ wording.