How EatWell Works
EatWell estimates calories and macros from your description using typical portion sizes. You write the meal in your own words; EatWell fills in the rest with sensible assumptions.
Describing a meal in your own words
There is nothing to search for and nothing to weigh. “Chicken curry and rice from the takeaway” is a perfectly good entry. If you know more — a size, a brand, how much was left — adding it usually gives you a closer estimate.
When you leave the amount out, EatWell assumes a typical portion for that kind of food.
The estimate is approximate, and it can be wrong
- Estimates are not exact measurements
- Portions are assumed unless you adjust them
- Patterns over time matter more than individual meals
- You can edit or correct entries at any time
Two plates of the same dish can differ a lot, so an estimate may be wrong — sometimes by a wide margin. It is there to help you notice roughly how you eat, not to give you a figure to rely on.
You can change anything you log
If an estimate looks off, adjust the portion, edit the meal, or delete it. Your log is yours to correct, and correcting it is normal rather than a failure.
A few days tell you more than one number
A single meal estimate is not very informative. What is useful is what shows up across several days: the meals that repeat, the times you tend to skip, the gaps you had not noticed. That is the level EatWell is designed for, and where a small change is worth making.
How AI is involved
EatWell sends what you write about a meal, along with the context needed to interpret it, to an AI model. The model produces the estimate and any reflection you see back. Because it is working from a description rather than a measurement, its output is an estimate.
The model is provided by OpenAI, and EatWell's platform currently runs on Amazon Web Services in the United States. What you log is not sold, not used for advertising, and not reused to train an EatWell model.
Read the privacy notice for what each AI feature sends, which providers are involved, how long things are kept, and how to get a copy of your data or ask for it to be deleted.
EatWell is designed to reduce friction, not enforce perfection.