API-first nutrition infrastructure

The nutrition API to power your health product.

Integrate personalised meal planning, adaptive recipes, health-aware nutrition, intelligent food tracking and more into your product through a single API.

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Built for digital health, diagnostics, weight management and wellness platforms.

A woman looking at a personalised meal plan on her smartphone at a kitchen table, with a balanced plate of salmon, grains and greens in the foreground.

The seven dimensions of nutrition intelligence: Health Parameter Mapping, Metabolic Logic, Nutrient Constraints, Allergens & Exclusions, Programme Logic, Partner-Defined Nutrition Rules, Meal Structure & Calorie Splits.

Health Parameter Mapping
Metabolic Logic
Nutrient Constraints
Allergens & Exclusions
Programme Logic
Partner-Defined Nutrition Rules
Meal Structure & Calorie Splits

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See it in action

API-first nutrition infrastructure, from rules to results.

Define the rules, personalise the plan, adapt as people change. Every step is available as structured JSON.

Illustrative preview

Step 01

Define nutrition rules

Clinical and regulatory teams create nutrition policies, dietary constraints, biomarker mappings and health protocols.

Meal distribution
Nutrition targets
Dietary constraints
Food groups
Allergens
Biomarker mappings

Available as JSON through the MealIQ API

POST /v1/programsAbridged example

{  "name": "Diabetes programme",  "programDefinition": {    "mealDefinitionsPerDay": [      {"type": "BREAKFAST", "calorieSplit": 0.2},      {"type": "LUNCH", "calorieSplit": 0.3},      {"type": "DINNER", "calorieSplit": 0.4},      {"type": "SNACK", "calorieSplit": 0.1}    ],    "constraints": [{      "scope": "PER_DAY",      "nutritionMetricConstraints": [        {"nutritionMetric": "CALORIES", "operator": "LESS_THAN",         "value": 2000, "units": "KCAL"},        {"nutritionMetric": "CARBOHYDRATE", "operator": "LESS_THAN",         "value": 150, "units": "GRAMS"}      ],      "excludeIngredients": ["sugar"],      "allergens": ["sesame"]    }]  }}

Structured, machine-readable rules that govern meal generation

Step 02

Personalise the plan

Calculate the nutrition targets each patient needs using personalised BMR calculations, wearable activity data, health goals and dietary preferences.

Personalised BMR
Wearable integrations
Personalised meals
Swap meals

MealIQ weekly plan. Targets and wearable cards are illustrative overlays.

Available as JSON through the MealIQ API

MealIQ weekly meal plan for program td2.program.01: one column per day, each listing generated meals with photos, energy and macronutrients and a swap button.

Daily plans and meals

Meal swaps

BMR & TDEE targets

Your calculated targets

BMR: 1,422 kcal
TDEE: 2,203 kcal
Daily target: 2,000 kcal

Carbs ≤ 150 g
Protein ≥ 70 g
Fat ≤ 100 g

Activity data

Wearable activity

8,432steps

7 h 24 msleep

Steps set activity level: Moderately active

POST /v1/body-metrics/tdeeAbridged example

{  "weightKg": 70,  "heightCm": 170,  "ageYears": 36,  "biologicalSex": "FEMALE",  "formula": "MIFFLIN_ST_JEOR",  "activityLevel": "MODERATELY_ACTIVE"}

Personalised BMR and TDEE from body metrics and wearable activity

Step 03

Adapt and improve

Track nutritional intake, review progress and continually adapt meal plans with users and/or clinicians.

Photo logging
Meal swaps
Recalculate the day
Recalculate targets

Illustrative interface, not an existing MealIQ screen. MealIQ is API-first: you build the experience.

Available as JSON through the MealIQ API

Today's meals

Illustrative

BreakfastSavory Grain Bowl with Soy & Sesame
395 kcal
Meal logged and swapped
LunchSesame & Garlic Stir Fry
556 kcal620 kcal
Remaining meals recalculated
DinnerSalmon en Papillote with Wholegrain Couscous
747 kcal718 kcal
SnackProtein Berry Bowl
302 kcal267 kcal

Daily target preserved

395 kcal logged1,015 kcal loggedof 2,000 kcal

✓ Daily target unchanged at 2,000 kcal

Photo logging

Log a meal

Sesame & Garlic Stir Fry620 kcal · 42 g proteinLogged

PhotoSearch

POST /v1/recipesAbridged example

{  "locale": "en-GB",  "replacedMealType": "LUNCH",  "replacedMealNutrition": {"calories": 620, "protein": 42},  "otherMealsTotalNutrition": {"calories": 1380},  "appliedNutritionConstraints": {    "day": {      "scope": "PER_DAY",      "nutritionMetricConstraints": [        {"nutritionMetric": "CALORIES", "operator": "LESS_THAN",         "value": 2000, "units": "KCAL"}      ]    }  }}

Real-time adaptation with API-driven meal swaps and recalculation

Platform capabilities

One infrastructure. Multiple capabilities.

Everything you need to build sophisticated, personalised nutrition experiences into your own applications.

Sliders for calories, protein and fibre balanced within their nutrient targets.

Personalised Meal Planning

Generate personalised meal plans that satisfy complex nutritional requirements across 27 nutritional dimensions, including calories, macronutrients, micronutrients and more.

Combine nutrient targets with allergens, dietary restrictions, food preferences and individual goals. Meal IQ's optimisation engine finds nutritionally valid solutions in near real time, with support for meal replacement, ingredient adaptation and recalculation.

A plate separated into protein, grain, vegetable, sauce and garnish, each linked to a colour-coded role.

Adaptive Smart Recipes

Recipes that adapt to the individual, not the other way around.

Dynamically adjust ingredients, quantities and substitutions to satisfy nutritional requirements while preserving culinary integrity. Generate cuisine-aware variations and localise recipes for different regions, tastes and languages.

A health insight from a lab result turned into structured nutrition rules and a resulting meal plan.

Health-Aware Nutrition

Turn health insights into personalised nutritional action.

Connect provider-defined health parameters, diagnostic categories and clinical programme rules to structured nutrition constraints, enabling personalised meal plans aligned with your own health and wellness programmes.

A camera viewfinder framing a plate of food, recognised as chicken, rice and greens.

Intelligent Tracking & AI Feedback

Close the loop between planning and actual consumption.

Enable users to log meals through photographs, compare their intake against nutrition targets and receive AI-assisted feedback to help them make informed dietary adjustments.

In development.

A POST request for a meal plan with a protein target and an exclusion, and its fast response.

Developer-First APIs

Power your existing products with sophisticated nutrition capabilities, without rebuilding your technology stack.

Integrate meal planning, recipe personalisation, nutrition intelligence and related functionality directly into your own applications, workflows and user experiences through structured APIs.

Our differentiator

Real-time personalisation. Mathematical precision.

Personalised meal planning is an NP-hard optimisation problem. We've engineered a way to solve it in near real time.

Finding meals that simultaneously satisfy daily nutritional targets, dietary restrictions, allergens, individual preferences and culinary requirements is an extraordinarily hard computational challenge. In fact, it's known as an NP-hard optimisation problem.

Even the most advanced frontier language models cannot be relied upon to consistently solve these combinatorial optimisation problems through generative reasoning alone.

Meal IQ takes a fundamentally different approach.

Our proprietary nutrition engine combines structured food intelligence, deterministic and mathematical optimisation to produce personalised meal plans that satisfy complex nutritional constraints in near real time.

AI creates the experience. Mathematics guarantees the nutritional logic.

Illustration using a real example plan, in three screens. Screen 1, set the constraints for the optimiser: nine constraint chips, namely Calories 1,900–2,000 kcal; Protein 100–160 g; Carbs 120–160 g; Fat 80–100 g; Sat. fat ≤ 25 g; Fibre 30–45 g; Pork-free; Mollusc-free; Lupin-free. Only the calorie range is a real programme target; the other ranges are examples chosen to suit this plan. The pork, mollusc and lupin exclusions were checked against the ingredients of the nine recipes shown, not against snacks. Screen 2, choose and optimise the recipes to fit: the chips leave, and from a scrolling strip of twelve recipes nine are picked and placed into a three-day plan with breakfast, lunch and dinner each day. Screen 3, all 9 rules respected for all days in the plan in near real time: for each day a calorie gauge and protein, fat and carbs donuts show the day's total against its range. Fibre and saturated fat are also within their ranges but are not drawn. All figures are illustrative, and day totals include snacks, which are not shown.
Example three-day plan, with each day's totals against the nine constraints
Meal Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
Breakfast Savory Grain Bowl with Soy & Sesame, 395 kcal Protein Pain Perdu with Blueberry, 379 kcal Keto-Style Protein Berry Breakfast Bowl, 381 kcal
Lunch Sesame & Garlic Stir Fry, 556 kcal Soy & Ginger Stir Fry, 588 kcal Salmon en Papillote with Wholegrain Couscous, 565 kcal
Dinner Keto-Inspired Chicken, Sweet Potato & Broccoli Skillet Bowl, 747 kcal Cod Provençal en Papillote with Warm Lentil–Potato Salad, 748 kcal Tikka-Style Curry, 757 kcal
Calories, target 1,900–2,000 kcal, including snacks 1,902 kcal, within range 1,908 kcal, within range 1,907 kcal, within range
Protein, target 100–160 g, including snacks 133 g, within range 150 g, within range 120 g, within range
Carbs, target 120–160 g, including snacks 140 g, within range 139 g, within range 150 g, within range
Fat, target 80–100 g, including snacks 97 g, within range 87 g, within range 97 g, within range
Sat. fat, target ≤ 25 g, including snacks 16 g, within range 15 g, within range 24 g, within range
Fibre, target 30–45 g, including snacks 40 g, within range 37 g, within range 35 g, within range
Exclusions: pork, molluscs, lupin none in the meals shown none in the meals shown none in the meals shown

Example three-day plan, with each day's totals against the nine constraints
Meal	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3
Breakfast	Savory Grain Bowl with Soy & Sesame, 395 kcal	Protein Pain Perdu with Blueberry, 379 kcal	Keto-Style Protein Berry Breakfast Bowl, 381 kcal
Lunch	Sesame & Garlic Stir Fry, 556 kcal	Soy & Ginger Stir Fry, 588 kcal	Salmon en Papillote with Wholegrain Couscous, 565 kcal
Dinner	Keto-Inspired Chicken, Sweet Potato & Broccoli Skillet Bowl, 747 kcal	Cod Provençal en Papillote with Warm Lentil–Potato Salad, 748 kcal	Tikka-Style Curry, 757 kcal
Calories, target 1,900–2,000 kcal, including snacks	1,902 kcal, within range	1,908 kcal, within range	1,907 kcal, within range
Protein, target 100–160 g, including snacks	133 g, within range	150 g, within range	120 g, within range
Carbs, target 120–160 g, including snacks	140 g, within range	139 g, within range	150 g, within range
Fat, target 80–100 g, including snacks	97 g, within range	87 g, within range	97 g, within range
Sat. fat, target ≤ 25 g, including snacks	16 g, within range	15 g, within range	24 g, within range
Fibre, target 30–45 g, including snacks	40 g, within range	37 g, within range	35 g, within range
Exclusions: pork, molluscs, lupin	none in the meals shown	none in the meals shown	none in the meals shown

Adaptive Smart Recipes

Beyond static recipe libraries.

Traditional recipe platforms rely on fixed catalogues of recipes with predetermined ingredients, quantities and nutritional profiles.

Meal IQ takes a different approach.

Our Smart Recipe system uses structured food intelligence to dynamically adapt recipes according to each individual's nutritional requirements, dietary restrictions and preferences.

Recipes that adapt to your targets

Automatically adjust ingredient quantities and portions to bring recipes into alignment with individual nutritional requirements.

Intelligent ingredient substitutions

Replace ingredients while respecting allergens, dietary preferences, nutritional requirements and culinary compatibility.

Cuisine-aware personalisation

Go beyond translating recipe instructions. Support regional cuisines through culturally appropriate ingredients, preparation methods, flavours and culinary patterns.

Multilingual recipe experiences

Deliver localised recipe titles, ingredients and cooking instructions, with the architecture designed to support a wide range of languages and regional variants.

Continuously adaptable content

Create personalised variations without depending entirely on a fixed number of pre-written recipes.

Overhead view of a grain bowl with sliced grilled chicken, quinoa, arugula, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, red onion and avocado, sprinkled with seeds, on a light table.

Smart recipe flexible by design: it adapts dynamically, supports substitutions, satisfies nutritional constraints and maintains culinary plausibility. Ingredient roles, bounded portions, substitution pathways such as chicken to tofu and rice to quinoa, and cuisine tags such as Mediterranean and high-protein.

Who it's for

Built for your industry.

Digital Health & Telehealth →

Embed personalised nutrition and structured dietary programmes directly into your existing digital healthcare experience.

Diagnostics & Medical Laboratories →

Translate provider-approved health insights and diagnostic categories into actionable, personalised nutrition programmes.

Weight Management & GLP-1 →

Support tailored nutrition programmes with configurable calorie, protein, fibre and dietary requirements that can evolve with individual goals.

Nutrition & Wellness Platforms →

Deliver advanced nutrition personalisation, intelligent meal recommendations and adaptive experiences without building your own nutrition engine.

AI Agents & Health Assistants →

Give AI-powered health experiences access to structured, deterministic nutrition execution rather than relying on free-form language generation.

Enterprise readiness

Built for enterprise healthcare.

The flexibility developers need. The controls healthcare organisations expect.

Privacy by Design

Designed to operate using opaque user identifiers, without requiring patient-identifiable information.

EU-Hosted Infrastructure

EU-hosted infrastructure, GDPR-aligned data processing and support for Data Processing Agreements.

Configurable Nutrition Policies

Apply partner-defined nutritional objectives, dietary restrictions, exclusions and approved health programme rules.

International Deployment

Deliver personalised nutrition content across over 200 supported languages and regional markets.

Integration & Operational Support

Access API documentation, testing environments, technical onboarding and ongoing platform maintenance.

For developers

Powerful nutrition APIs. Seamless integration.

Your product. Your experience. Our nutrition intelligence.

Meal IQ exposes its nutrition capabilities through APIs designed to integrate with existing digital health, telehealth, wellness and AI-powered applications.

Your team retains control over the user experience, branding, customer relationships and underlying clinical workflows.

Meal IQ provides the specialist infrastructure needed to deliver personalised nutrition at scale.

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API / STRUCTURED RESPONSE

{
  "plan_id": "example",
  "days": [ ... ],
  "nutrition": { ... },
  "recipes": [ ... ]
}

[ Visual placeholder: a real API request alongside its structured response, with expandable nutrition data and recipe details ]

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Whether you're developing a digital health platform, diagnostic service or personalised wellness product, Meal IQ provides the nutrition infrastructure to bring your vision to life.

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