Mijn Eetmeter is an online food diary that helps people eat more healthily. You gain insight into your eating pattern and the amount of energy and nutrients you consume. You also receive practical tips on how to make healthier choices. All of this can also help you lose weight. Many users had two wishes: being able to scan products and being able to choose from more products. These wishes have now been fulfilled.
Quickly fill in your diary with the barcode scanner
You can now scan product barcodes in the Mijn Eetmeter app. This makes it easier and faster to add products to your diary.
90,000 branded products added
Mijn Eetmeter previously only contained products with average nutritional values. We have now added around 90,000 store-brand and branded products with their specific values. This makes the selection more complete and precise. By choosing your specific products, you make your food diary more personal.
Why Mijn Eetmeter?
1. Always up to date
Mijn Eetmeter obtains its product information from the Food Products Database. We receive the product information in this database directly from manufacturers. When manufacturers change the label, we automatically receive the most up-to-date product data.
2. Completely free and without commercial interests
Mijn Eetmeter is and will remain free. The Voedingscentrum can offer this app free of charge because we are funded 100% by the government to help people eat more healthily. Since we have no commercial interests, our information is independent and reliable. We will also never share your personal information with third parties.
3. Nutritional values as you eat the food
For example, if you scan or select pasta, you naturally want to add the nutritional values of the cooked pasta; after all, that is how you eat it. If the label lists the values for uncooked pasta, we convert them for you in Mijn Eetmeter. Or if you eat vegetables, you can choose whether you eat them raw or stir-fried, for example.
4. Advice on vitamins and minerals too
The label states how much energy, fat, saturated fat, protein, carbohydrates, fibre and salt the product contains. In Mijn Eetmeter, you immediately receive personalised advice for these nutrients. But in Mijn Eetmeter you can also monitor your vitamins and minerals. We link all products to general nutritional values. This enables us to give you insight into a wide range of nutrients.
5. Based on the Wheel of Five
For people who would like to eat more in line with the Wheel of Five, we offer Wheel of Five advice. This shows you how much you already eat in accordance with the Wheel of Five and gives you tips on how to make healthier choices.
6. Link with the ‘Kies ik Gezond?’ app
Users of our ‘Kies ik Gezond?’ app can mark products as favourites in Mijn Eetmeter from that app. In this app, you can see for each product whether it is healthy.
View or download
The app has been downloaded more than one million times. Mijn Eetmeter is also available through the Mijn Voedingscentrum website.