AI Nutritionist — Your Free Nutrition Chat Assistant
Ask nutrition questions in plain language and get specific, usable answers — not generic diet advice.
Most nutrition questions are annoyingly specific. Not 'is rice healthy' but 'I've had 1,400 calories and 60g of protein today, I'm training in two hours, what should I eat.' Search engines answer the first kind of question well and the second kind badly. The AI Nutritionist is built for the second kind: you describe your actual situation in your own words, and it answers in context — using what you have told it about your goals, your day so far, and what you are willing to eat.
What you can actually ask it
The assistant handles the everyday questions that come up while you are cooking, shopping or planning — the ones where a generic article is not enough because the answer depends on your specifics.
- Calorie and macro estimates for a meal you describe, including homemade dishes with no barcode
- Substitutions that respect a constraint — dairy-free, low-FODMAP, no nuts, halal, vegetarian
- What to eat around training, or how to hit a protein target with the food already in your kitchen
- Whether a plan makes sense: 'is 1,200 calories too low for me' style sanity checks
- Fasting questions — what breaks a fast, how to structure an eating window around your schedule
It remembers the context you give it
A conversation is not a series of disconnected searches. Once you tell the assistant your goal, your restrictions or what you have already eaten, follow-up answers take that into account — so you are not restating your dietary situation in every message. That is the practical difference between a chat assistant and a search box.
Connected to the rest of your kitchen
The assistant is not a standalone chatbot bolted onto a recipe site. It sits alongside your meal calendar, grocery list and pantry, so answers can reference what you are actually planning to cook this week rather than an abstract ideal diet. Ask it to build a plan and you can push that plan into your calendar instead of copying it out by hand.
Where to be careful
This is a nutrition assistant, not a clinician. It is genuinely useful for everyday planning, portioning and swaps — and it is the wrong tool for diagnosing a condition, managing a medication interaction, or setting nutrition for a medical diet you were prescribed. If you are pregnant, managing diabetes or an eating disorder, or working from a doctor's plan, treat its output as a starting point to discuss, not as instructions to follow. Calorie and macro figures for described meals are estimates, and estimates for homemade food carry real uncertainty.
How it works
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Describe your situation
Type what you would tell a friend — what you ate, what you want, what you cannot eat. No forms, no food database lookup.
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Get a specific answer
The assistant answers for your case, with numbers where numbers help and reasoning where the trade-off matters.
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Push it into your week
Turn the answer into a meal plan, add items to your grocery list, or save a recipe to cook later.
Frequently asked questions
Is the AI nutritionist free?
Yes — there is a free daily allowance you can use without paying, so you can try it properly before deciding whether a subscription is worth it. Heavier daily use is what the Pro plan covers.
How accurate are the calorie estimates?
They are estimates, and honest ones are worth more than confident ones. Packaged foods and standard portions are reliable; a homemade dish described in a sentence has real uncertainty, because portion size and cooking fat vary enormously. Use the figures for direction and consistency rather than treating them as measured values.
Can it handle allergies and dietary restrictions?
Yes, and it keeps them in mind across the conversation once you have stated them. That said, for a serious allergy always verify ingredients yourself — an assistant working from a text description cannot see the label on the package in your hand.
Do I need an account?
You can start chatting without one. An account is what lets your conversations, meal plans and lists persist across devices and sessions.
Is it a replacement for a dietitian?
No. It is very good at the routine questions that would be an expensive use of a dietitian's time — portioning, swaps, hitting a protein target. It is not a substitute for personalised clinical advice, and it should not be used to manage a medical condition.
Start using it — free
Create a free account to keep your plans, lists and history across devices.
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