Nutrition

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Yes — on every recipe and on products where the manufacturer publishes it: calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, sugar and sodium. The useful part isn't the numbers sitting there, it's watching them move. Swap an ingredient for a lower-sodium or higher-fiber version and the nutrition recalculates as you go, so you can see what a change actually buys you before deciding it's worth it. When the mobile apps arrive this fall, you'll also be able to see a week of planned meals totalled up in one view.

Not as a number you set for yourself — not yet, and that's deliberate. Telling someone their daily calorie target edges into health advice, and that deserves to be built properly rather than bolted on. What you can do today is see the numbers on everything: every recipe's full nutrition, what a swap changes, and what a meal actually contains before you cook it. On the mobile apps this fall, you'll also be able to pick the health goals that matter to you and see how many of your planned meals line up with them each week — counted honestly, as meals, not dressed up as a score.

Where we're strongest is recipes and planning. Add each person in your household with their allergies, and the meal maker will automatically leave out anything that would put them at risk — you don't have to remember to filter, it just doesn't show you those recipes. You can filter the whole library by nut-free, dairy-free, gluten-free and more. On individual packaged products, we're not there yet. Allergen data from manufacturers is patchy and inconsistent, and a missing warning is far more dangerous than no warning at all — so we don't show one. For anything allergy-critical, read the physical label. We'd rather tell you that plainly than have you trust a field we can't stand behind.

No — and anyone who tells you their nutrition data is perfect isn't being straight with you. We use manufacturer-published data and established nutrition databases, cross-checked against USDA FoodData Central. That's very accurate for packaged goods and a good estimate for recipes, where real cooking varies more than any database can capture. For anything medical or allergy-critical, the label on the package wins.