Mijn Eetmeter

Mijn Eetmeter is an online food diary that helps people to eat healthier. You gain insight into your eating pattern and the amount of energy and nutrients you consume. You will also receive concrete tips on how to make healthier choices and how to eat according to the Wheel of Five. Do you want to lose weight? With the My new balance section, we support you in taking small but challenging steps towards a healthier weight.

QUICKLY FILL IN YOUR DIARY WITH THE BARCODE SCANNER

You can scan the barcodes of products in the Mijn Eetmeter app. This way you can easily and quickly add products to your diary.

120,000 BRANDED PRODUCTS

My Eetmeter contains more than 120,000 (private) brand items.

TO LOSE WEIGHT

Many of the users of Mijn Eetmeter use it as an aid in losing weight. My new balance helps with that. You see weekly:

1. How much weight you lost and feedback on your weight progress.

2. How much more you have eaten within the Wheel of Five. Because healthy eating is the basis during weight loss and to keep your good changes later.

3. How many snacks, drinks and sauces you take. This overview can help you figure out the next step. For example, replacing soft drinks with a light version or water.

4. How well you are progressing in terms of movement. This can be sports, but also brisk walking and cycling.

And every week you get new tips that help you lose weight.

BMI TRACKING

In My Eating Meter you can keep track of how your weight is developing. To do this, you regularly enter your weight. You can see on a graph how much you gain or lose weight and whether your BMI is already healthy.

MOVEMENT METER

Enough exercise is part of a healthy lifestyle, just like healthy eating. If you want, you can therefore also keep track of how much you exercise and whether this is enough to meet the exercise guideline.

WHAT MAKES MY DINING METER UNIQUE?

1. Completely free and without commercial interest

My Eetmeter is and will remain free. The Nutrition Center can offer this app for free because we are 100% funded by the government to help people eat healthier. Because we have no commercial interest, our information is independent and reliable. We will also never share your personal information with third parties.

2. Always up to date

In Mijn Eetmeter you will find general foods, but also many branded products. Mijn Eetmeter retrieves the product information from the Food Database. We receive the product information of branded products in this database directly from manufacturers.

3. Nutritional value as you eat it

If the values ​​of the raw pasta are stated on the label, we will convert this for you in Mijn Eetmeter.

4. Advice also on vitamins and minerals.

The label states how much energy, fat, saturated fat, protein, carbohydrates, salt and sometimes also fiber is in the product. In Mijn Eetmeter you will immediately receive tailor-made advice for these nutrients. But you can also pay attention to vitamins and minerals in Mijn Eetmeter.

5. According to the Wheel of Five

We offer a Wheel of Five advice to people who would like to eat more according to the Wheel of Five. In it you will see how much you already eat according to the Wheel of Five and you will receive tips on how to make healthier choices.

6. Link with the app 'Do I choose Healthy?'

Users of our 'Do I Choose Healthy?' app can favorite products from that app in Mijn Eetmeter. In this app you can see per product whether it is healthy.

MY FOOD CENTER

Mijn Eetmeter exchanges data with the website www.mijnvoedingscentrum.nl. On this website you can log in with the same data as with Mijn Eetmeter. You will find more useful tools there. You can also download and print your diary and the results.

GOOD LUCK

The app has since been downloaded more than 2.5 million times and has many enthusiastic users, such as Elly: “It provided insight. With some things I thought: gee, so many calories, or so much sugar or fat. You know it, but you are still shocked when you see those numbers.”