# Nutrients - Nutrition Facts — Recipe Manager & Food Journal

> Comprehensive offline food nutrition database, recipe builder, and food journal. (iPhone/iPad app by Pomegranate Apps LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nutrients-nutrition-facts/id396836856 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Pomegranate Apps LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/293619496)
- Category: Food & Drink, Health & Fitness
- Price: $4.99
- Rating: 4.30/5 from 829 App Store ratings · 329 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 13.6 · 32 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2010-10-27
- Data updated: 2026-09-02
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nutrients-nutrition-facts/id396836856/reviews.md

## What is Nutrients?

Nutrients is nutrition at your fingertips! How much sugar is in an apple? How much potassium is in a banana? Discover nutrition facts on tens of thousands of foods complete with all vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fats, fatty acids, sugars, sterols, and more compounds like caffeine.

Nutrients works completely offline with no internet required! Search our entire database of nearly 200,000 foods without using any data.

"After a heart attack, I really needed a good tool to determine the fat content of my diet. Nutrients has a comprehensive, well-tended, and ever-expanding database of nutrition info. It's easy to search and attractively presented. Its built-in unit conversion ability makes it simple to compare servings of like amounts of diverse foods. Best app for this purpose I could find, and I looked at a bunch."
▸ Literally a lifesaver by DanCasali

Create your own recipes! Add ingredients and select the serving size to get the most comprehensive list of nutrition facts for your recipes.

"Being a type 1 diabetic, I have to count carbs in everything I eat. This app has made it easier to look up the nutrition information on many foods. Truly an amazing app!! Every diabetic should have this app."
▸ Great for diabetics by Diabeticfittie

Keep a record of the foods you eat every day! Nutrients features a new and improved food journal with a complete breakdown of your daily nutrition and options to change the specific daily values of each nutrient. Nutrients even syncs your journal to the Health app making it easy to see what nutrients you're consuming with other apps.

"Finally an app that gives a complete nutritional breakdown of food. This holistic approach takes the focus off calories and back onto food as a whole. As a nutritionist, I highly recommend it to all my clients."
▸ iPhone's best food reference guide by The Shazmeister

Find foods highest in specific nutrients like vitamins and minerals.  The nutrient browser sorts foods by the selected nutrient and food category.  Find fruits with the highest amount of potassium or vegetables with the most iron. The combinations are endless!

"I am getting my bachelor's in Nutrition and Dietetics so I am always looking up nutrition information. This is a beautiful, easy to use app that is full of nutritional information! I love it!"
▸ I love this app! by Evbaker92

Create your own list of favorite foods! Use this feature with the nutrient browser to find out which of your favorite foods are highest in specific nutrients such as vitamin A or iron.

"Great app! Especially to nutritionists, when a patient asks for some random ingredient we don't know all its values! Works like a lucky charm!"
▸ Great! by Awesome short stories

Show and hide foods by categories such as hiding meats for vegetarians or dairy & eggs for vegans to customize Nutrients to your diet.

"This app is the best food app ever. It has never frozen on me and it is so informational. It helps my fiance and I keep healthy and buy the right foods."
▸ Amazing!!! by Kana557

Search for Baked Foods, Beef, Beverages, Breakfast Cereals, Cereal Grains & Pasta, Dairy & Eggs, Fish & Shellfish, Fruits, Nuts & Seeds, Oils, Pork, Poultry, Seafood, Spices & Herbs, Vegetables and more in Nutrients!

"An embarrassment of riches! The most thorough and complete nutrition atlas I have ever seen! If you want to know what you eat I strongly suggest this great app!"
▸ Unreal! by Whatrix

Search for foods like "cooked salmon" or "egg whites" and perform unit conversions using natural language such as "tablespoons to 1/4 cup" or "cups in a gallon".

"Love it! The update is amazing. Very informative app. Especially if you are trying to eat healthier or get more of one type of nutrient. You can eat more of that type of food."
▸ Best app ever by Deen1stApps

Nutrition data is provided by the USDA.

## Key features

- Offline nutrition database
- Recipe creation and analysis
- Daily food journal
- Nutrient browser
- Customizable food lists
- Health app sync

## Chart rankings

- #61 in Top Paid · Food & Drink (US App Store)

## What do users think of Nutrients?

Overall sentiment: neutral

**Pros**

- 🚀 Detailed nutrient information
- 👍 Comprehensive food database
- 🚀 Syncs well with Apple Health
- 👍 Helpful for managing dietary restrictions

**Cons**

- 🐛 Barcode scanner not working
- 🐛 Crashes when trying to add items
- 🐛 Inaccurate nutrient data for some foods
- 🔒 Limited to US-based foods, not useful for other regions
- 🐛 Buggy recipe creation and management

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Nutrient values not calculating correctly
- Duplicate items appearing in the database
- Inability to edit or delete past journal entries
- Inconsistent serving size measurements

**Most requested features**

- Add ability to manually enter custom food items
- Improve search and filtering options
- Incorporate glycemic index and glycemic load data
- Add support for supplements and vitamins
- Provide more detailed nutrient breakdowns (e.g. soluble vs. insoluble fiber)

## Recent user reviews (10 of 329)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nutrients-nutrition-facts/id396836856/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Excellent

*2026-02-26, version 10.0*

Great info at your fingertips

### 3/5 — My perspective

*2025-07-29, version 10.0*

The app is a bit outdated. It doesn’t read barcodes. It’s nearly impossible to add items unless you’re using products from certain European countries as it requires all nutrients listed in kcals which of course the US doesn’t use on our labels. So if you don’t mind fudging a bit. It’s not too bad. It seems to integrate well with Apple Health but I’ll have to re-evaluate after a month or two.

### 1/5 — Not for UK residents

*2025-07-24, version 10.0*

Waste of money.  Pity it doesn’t give any indication it only covers US food just leads you on to pay for something you can’t use.

### 1/5 — Average

*2025-07-17, version 10.0*

The barcode scanner on this app does not work.

### 3/5 — Good but buggy

*2025-05-15, version 10.0*

As a vegetarian, I use the app to track protein macros. However, many common items (Ex: Trader Joe’s Almond Butter Cups) are not in the database and the app crashes if you open the barcode scanner. There is no feature on the app to request help so there’s no ability to troubleshoot. It’s good for estimating, but since the exact item is likely not listed, it can vary widely. Feels like it was published too soon with no efforts to revise.

### 1/5 — Used to be better. Now dumbed down and basic.

*2024-10-08, version 10.0*

I have had this app for years. I used to really like it. A couple of years ago however, they really dumbed it down. It used to have detailed nutrient information, for example, both soluble and insoluble fiber. Now, it just has very basic info for each food that you can get from any food label. 

You used to be able to see a very comprehensive list of foods that were high or low in a specific nutrient. (For example, “Im trying to eat more magnesium,” or “I have a relative who can’t eat vitamin K”.) Now this will show you the top 100 foods for a given nutrient, but unfortunately, these ingredients or foods are not de-duped so you tended to get a list that has a lot of repeats, or very odd and obscure foods and you can’t scroll past the end of the 100 items.

It’s basically just like every other super simple calorie counting app out there, and I don’t think this is very differentiated or special any more.

### 4/5 — Good app but Omega fats missing

*2024-10-03, version 10.0*

Regarding the 'Nutrients' app for the iphone, it would be great to see Omega fats included in the nutrient breakdown.

### 1/5 — Can you add CoQ10

*2024-09-11, version 10.0*

Also the older version was a lot more intuitive

### 3/5 — Not as good as it was

*2024-08-29, version 10.0*

You can no longer add foods via the camera and adding a new food manually consistently fail to populate properly. inputting (iPhone iOS 17). It has been over a year since any effort to update has happened. 

The time setting on an entry is egregiously slow. The only reason I continue to use the app is because it tracks details most diet tracking apps leave out, such as potassium - when it works. 

Have gotten no response or fixes from developers.

### 1/5 — New items make it less functional

*2024-07-05, version 10.0*

I’ve used this app for years to help me find ingredients with particular vitamins and minerals that I run low on. With recent updates, my favorites history has been removed (🙁), but also the sorting by vitamin/mineral content has become useless to me because every result is some kind of Native American plant or meat that I absolutely have no access to. (Caribou ice cream??? In central USA???? We don’t even have caribou here, much less caribou ice cream!)
I really appreciate that these foods are in the app, but it would be wonderful if there was an option to omit certain categories from the searches and sorting. I also cannot eat fish, so it would help me there too for the nutrient categories that are 90% fish.
The sorting limits also appear to be broken, so when I select “all” it still only displays the top 100 results.

Just feeling very disappointed in this app in recent years. It used to be my go to for nutrient packed meal plans, but now I can rarely find anything relevant. I will revise this review again if positive changes are made in the future. Currently: if you can eat fish and live in Alaska or among the Plains Indians this may be great for you. If you live in a typical city? Eh.

## Frequently asked questions about Nutrients

### What does the Nutrients app do?

Nutrients provides detailed nutritional information for tens of thousands of foods, including vitamins, minerals, sugars, and fats. It allows users to create their own recipes, track daily food intake with a journal, and discover foods high in specific nutrients. The app is designed to be comprehensive and works completely offline.

### What are the key features of Nutrients?

Key features include an extensive offline nutrition database, the ability to create and analyze custom recipes, a daily food journal with detailed breakdowns, a nutrient browser to find foods rich in specific compounds, customizable favorite food lists, and synchronization with the Health app. Users can also hide food categories to suit their dietary needs.

### Is Nutrients free to use?

Yes, the application is available for free. Based on the provided information, there are no in-app purchases or advertisements mentioned, indicating it is a completely free application.

### What devices is Nutrients compatible with?

The application is designed for mobile devices. While specific operating system versions are not detailed, it is implied to be compatible with iOS devices as it mentions syncing with the Health app, which is an Apple feature.

### Who would benefit from using Nutrients?

This app is beneficial for a wide range of users, including individuals managing health conditions like diabetes or heart disease, nutrition students, nutritionists, vegans, vegetarians, and anyone interested in understanding the nutritional content of their food for healthier eating habits.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 10.0 — 2023-06-26

Updated for iOS 16.4

### 9.1 — 2021-11-04

Nutrients now supports iCloud! Tap the "Profile" tab on iPad or the "Profile" button in the navigation bar on the first tab on iPhone to enable iCloud on your devices.

### 9.0.3 — 2021-10-30

Bug fixes and interface improvements.

### 9.0.2 — 2021-10-26

Bug fixes and interface improvements.

### 9.0.1 — 2021-10-21

Ready for iOS 15!

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