The UK AI meal scanner
that fills the diary in
for you.

Photograph the plate. We pick the food, estimate the portions, work out the calories, the macros and the ingredients. You tap save, the diary updates.

Pro feature £3.99/month or £34.99/year on iOS Cancel any time

NutraSafe diary view showing food entries with calories and macros logged from the AI meal scan
Photo to diary
01 Photo to diary, in four taps

From a plate
to a logged meal.

No weighing scales, no typing. We're looking at the picture and you're confirming what we got right.

The bit that used to take a minute of typing.

The scanner names the food, estimates the portion, and pulls the calories and macros from UK food composition data. You see each component before it saves, so you can swap, edit or remove anything that's off.

i. Open the app, tap the camera, take a photo of the plate. One shot. Good light helps.
ii. We name the components and estimate the portion sizes. Chicken thigh, rice, broccoli. About this much of each.
iii. You see the calories, macros and ingredients before anything saves. Swap a component or nudge a portion if we got it wrong.
iv. Tap save. The meal lands in your diary, totals update for the day. Counts against your goal, your NRVs, your protein target.
02 What the AI scan covers

Plates, takeaways,
and the bits without a barcode.

The photo path is for everything the barcode can't read. Home cooking. Restaurant plates. Sunday roast. The Pret salad pot you can't remember the name of.

i

Home-cooked plates, scanned.

Roast dinner. Spag bol. Tomato pasta with the bits you added on top. Snap, edit, save.

Sunday roast Chicken, roasties, veg, gravy
812 kcal
Spaghetti Bolognese Pasta, mince, sauce
654 kcal
Stir-fry Chicken, noodles, peppers
578 kcal
ii

Restaurant and takeaway.

Photograph the plate before you tuck in. The scan estimates calories and macros for things you'll never get a barcode for.

RESTAURANT · PHOTO LOG Pad Thai with chicken Estimated portion against UK CoFID and standard restaurant servings. You can nudge the portion size if it looks generous or small.
iii

Adds straight to your daily totals.

Calories, macros, vitamins, minerals. As soon as you save the scan, the diary updates and the bars move.

Calories 62%
Protein 75%
Sugar 96%
iv

Edit a component before it saves.

We get it wrong sometimes: similar-looking foods, oblique angles. Swap the wrong one, nudge the portion, save the right meal.

Swap brown rice → white Tap to confirm · No re-photo
Edit·
v

Faster than typing.

The whole point. Snap, glance, save. Beats hunting "homemade lasagne" in a food database.

Snap·Save two taps
vi

Pair it with a reaction note.

Photograph the meal, log how you felt after. Two taps each. Over a few weeks, you'll see which plates keep showing up when you feel rubbish.

Heavy lunch then sleepy 4 / 7
Takeaway then bloated 3 / 7
Home-cooked then good 5 / 7
vii

Barcode when there is one, photo when there isn't.

Same diary. Barcode for the packet, photo for the plate. Both add to the day, both count toward your totals, both keep the additive flag on.

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03 What the AI scan does and doesn't

A good estimate,
not a kitchen scale.

Honest about what the photo can and can't tell us. So you use the right tool for the meal.

Single-plate accuracy
Good

Well-lit photos of a clear plate read best. Chicken, rice, veg. Beans on toast. Jacket potato. Stir-fry.

Mixed dishes
Estimate

Curries, stews, layered bakes are harder. You'll often want to edit a component. Still faster than typing it.

Packaged foods
Use barcode

If the food has a UK barcode, scan the packet. We pull the manufacturer's data straight off the label.

Your data, your control
Edit first

Nothing lands in the diary without you tapping save. Edit a component, change a portion, swap the brand.

04 Questions people ask

AI meal scan,
answered.

Six questions people send in over and over. If yours isn't here, ping us from the support page.

How accurate is AI meal scanning?

AI meal scanning gives a useful estimate for home-cooked plates, takeaways and meal-deal items. Accuracy is best on well-lit photos of a single plate with the food clearly visible. Mixed dishes (curries, stews, layered bakes) are harder to estimate precisely. For exact tracking, barcode scanning of packaged food is more reliable; most people use both.

How does AI food recognition work?

A vision model has learned what common foods look like. From your photo it picks the components, estimates portion sizes from visual cues, and matches each component to a food entry to calculate calories, macros and ingredients. You can edit anything before it saves to your diary.

Should I use photo scanning or barcode scanning?

Barcode for packaged food (it pulls the manufacturer's data straight off the label) and photo for plates without a barcode: home cooking, restaurant meals, takeaways, deli items, fresh produce. Most people use both: barcode for the weekly shop, photo for meals.

Can the scanner recognise UK foods?

Yes. We've tuned it on UK plates and UK supermarket items: full English, beans on toast, jacket potato, shepherd's pie, fish and chips, Tesco meal deals, Pret salad pots and the like. The calorie and macro numbers reference UK food composition data first.

Does the AI meal scanner work for restaurants and takeaways?

Yes. Photograph your plate before eating. The scanner picks the components and estimates calories and macros. It won't match a weighed at-home log, but it's usually closer than guessing and faster than typing it all in. This is one of the most common uses.

Is the AI meal scan included in the free tier?

No. AI meal scan is a NutraSafe Pro feature at £3.99 a month or £34.99 a year on iOS. The free tier covers barcode scanning, typing in foods and logging up to 25 items a day. Pro removes the daily cap and unlocks the AI meal scan, AI Coach, workouts, fasting and suspected triggers.

Photograph the plate.
Save the meal. The diary does the maths.

Get NutraSafe on the App Store

AI meal scan is a Pro feature at £3.99 a month or £34.99 a year. The barcode scanner and the diary are free to use. Try those first, then upgrade when you want the photo path.

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