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Nutrition information for everyday food — without judgment.
Juan Nutrisyon helps Filipinos understand the nutritional content of everyday foods — from lutong bahay meals to common ingredients found in local markets and carinderias. Many foods we eat daily don’t come with nutrition labels, making it difficult to know how they affect our health. This platform aims to make that information more accessible and easier to understand. Whether you’re tracking your diet, planning meals, or simply curious about what’s on your plate, Juan Nutrisyon provides tools and insights to guide your decisions.
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View Nutrients
Search for foods and explore their nutrient content.Create Recipes
Build recipes and see the combined nutrient breakdown of all your ingredients.Analyze your diet
Track your daily intake and discover if you're meeting your nutritional needs, over-consuming, or falling short.Collaborate
Whether you are a dietitian, nutritionist, food technologist, chef/baker/food entrepreneur/carinderia, LGU/policy maker, research specialist, food blogger/vlogger, marketer, or a programmer/developer we need you. Pleasesay hi.Contribute
Juan Nutrisyon is a community-driven project. We rely on contributions from the community to add new foods to the database. Be sure to visit contribute.juanutrisyon.info if you're interested in contributing.Follow Us
We're constantly putting out new features. We also post content all about nutrition and healthy living. So if you want to stay in the loop, be sure to follow us on Facebook.Why Nutrition Matters
In the Philippines, many diet-related health issues such as high blood pressure and diabetes are becoming more common. One challenge is that nutrition information is often difficult to access or understand, especially for everyday meals. By making nutrition information more accessible, we hope to help people make better food choices without removing the cultural importance of Filipino cuisine. This is especially important since many Filipino meals are home-cooked or bought from carinderias, where nutrition labels are not available.
Popular Foods
Explore the nutrition breakdown of commonly eaten Filipino dishes.
- Chicken Adobo
- Adobong Sitaw
- Pinoy Pork Bbq
- Paksiw Na Isda
- Tokwat Baboy
- Tortang Talong
- Bistek
- Lumpiang Shanghai
- Pinoy Style Fried Chicken
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