Mealime nutrition.

Open nutrition facts before comparing recipes.

Mealime’s nutrition guide, updated 29 July 2019, documents these routes:

• iOS and Android: open a recipe from Meal Plan or Favorites, then More → Nutrition facts.
• Web: open the recipe, select Nutrition Facts beneath its image, then More nutrition facts for the expanded details.
• While planning: nutrition is also available when previewing a recipe in the builder.

Read the serving label alongside calories, macronutrients and micronutrients. A per-serving figure describes the recipe’s stated serving, which may differ from the portion on your plate. Compare recipes on a consistent basis; a whole-recipe total and a per-serving number do not answer the same question.

Filter recipes, then inspect your selection.

The calorie-filter guide, updated 29 July 2019, says to start a new meal plan, tap the magnifying-glass Search icon and select a preset under Calories. The displayed recipes then fall within that range. This narrows recipe choices; it does not record food eaten or account for the rest of your day.

For more controls, the 3 December 2020 getting-started guide places Advanced Filters in Settings. It documents greater-than/less-than rules for calories, carbohydrate/protein/fat as percentages of calories, and sodium per serving. A protein percentage is a different measure from grams of protein; retain the unit when copying a filter.

Save enough context to recognise the same meal.

A number such as “300” becomes ambiguous once separated from its panel. Keep the title, source link, recipe yield, nutrition units and date checked together. If you use a screenshot, include the serving heading and every part of the panel you need, then check that the text is readable.

Keep your changes beside that record: ingredient replacements, quantities, product details and additions prepared separately. Label the original panel as the published recipe’s information. If you later cook a different version, do not silently reuse the old figures as though they describe the new ingredients.

A useful record might read: “Published recipe, four servings; original nutrition panel saved; my version uses a different sauce.” That preserves what you know without inventing a revised total. The date a recipe was saved and the date a portion was eaten are also different fields.

Send the consumed servings to Apple Health.

Mealime’s December 2020 guide documents a deliberate logging action: after cooking, open the recipe’s top-right menu → nutrition facts, choose the number of servings consumed, then tap Add to Health App. Adding a dish to your plan alone is not this logging step.

The current US iOS listing also advertises Health integration. This newer evidence supersedes the 21 February 2018 tracker article for Apple Health; that older article said integrations had not yet been built. It does not establish current connections to MyFitnessPal, Fitbit or Weight Watchers.

If a record is missing, inspect permission and destination.

Apple’s Health data guide, published 13 April 2026, gives the permission route: Health → profile picture → Privacy → Apps → the relevant app. Review its available categories; the source app may also have a sharing setting. The exact fields offered by Mealime should be read from your installed version.

In Health, open Search on iPhone, then the relevant category and subcategory. Show All Data displays records; Data Sources & Access identifies contributing apps. Inspect the date, amount and source before repeating a logging action. On iPad, use the sidebar to reach categories. An absent record calls for checking these details, not assuming a recipe backup will repair it.

One recipe, different portion counts.

This fictional example uses a recipe labelled four servings, 300 calories per serving. Assume the ingredients stay unchanged and each new portion contains an equal share of the complete dish. These are arithmetic examples, not values for a tested recipe or suggested intake.

The serving selector used for logging must match the recipe’s definition. In this example, selecting two original servings would describe half the recipe, whereas two of the six new portions describe one-third. If the available control cannot represent your actual portion, avoid selecting a convenient but incorrect quantity.

Simple division also assumes an even mixture: one container with more of a separate topping is not necessarily the same as another. Keep dry and cooked ingredient weights distinct when documenting changes. Portion arithmetic changes the share of an estimate; it does not establish that the underlying nutrition estimate is exact.

Keep the panel as a separate readable record.

The free website backup tool produces TXT or JSON from supported recipe inputs, concentrating on ingredients and cooking steps. Source data available through a public link may omit nutrition shown inside the app. Inspect the preview and downloaded file; missing nutrition should stay missing rather than becoming a precise-looking guess.

Save the original nutrition panel and its serving context beside your checked recipe copy while you can access them. Include personal substitutions separately. A link alone is not a readable record of the panel, and a recipe download is not an Apple Health export or a transfer of your food diary.

Choose recipe storage and tracking deliberately.

Mealime’s official continuation is free Meals Hub, with its recipe catalogue in Albertsons Companies apps and websites. Recipes, plans and lists can be used without a nearby store. The announcement does not establish that your Health logging workflow or private records transfer, so evaluate that requirement separately.

MealPot Pro offers individual recipe-link import: Recipes → + → Import Recipe → review → save to My Recipes. Check the fields actually present, including the serving count, and keep the original nutrition record if you need it. This app import is separate from the free website backup, and neither is a promised food-diary migration.

If tracking drives your choice, use the Eat This Much comparison and calorie and weight-loss questions to examine that workflow. For recipe storage and planning, see the alternatives, switch checklist and practical cooking guides.

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