You Eat Variety, made visible.
A weekly record of the different plants recognised in your saved meals, alongside your food groups. It’s one part of your nutrition picture.
Example: four recognised plants. Spinach at another meal still counts as spinach.
Count the plant, not every appearance.
You Eat groups recognised plant names across meals in the same week. Fresh and frozen spinach are the same plant. Red and green peppers also count together. Different bean names, such as black beans and kidney beans, are kept separate.
Look beyond fruit and vegetables.
Recognised plant ingredients can include grains, beans and lentils, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices. Mixed meals contribute the plant ingredients that are recorded, not an assumed count for the recipe’s name.
Understand what is missing.
The record depends on recognised and confirmed ingredients. An unseen ingredient or an unlogged meal can be absent. The count is an estimate of your logs, not a measurement of your microbiome or a guarantee that you ate a complete diet.
You Eat’s counting method is a product convention; other plant trackers may group ingredients differently.
A count with context.
You Eat also shows your food-group picture and practical ideas. Plant variety is a useful record to explore, rather than the whole product or a health grade.
Read our counting examples or see how the photo food diary works.