How it works
Create your personalized plan
Generate your plan
Generated Meals of Day 1
Grocery List
Features
Downloaded Plan
Generated Plan

🥗 MealCompass AI

💡 Inspiration

Just a few decades ago, the average human lifespan often touched 90 - 100 years. Today, many struggle to reach 60 to 70. Why? Because while medicine has advanced, our eating habits have declined.

Food is no longer just about taste, it determines whether we thrive or fall into illness. Some conditions are genetic, but an even larger share are driven by poor diets: diabetes, hypertension, obesity, heart disease, and malnutrition.

And nutrition isn’t one-size-fits-all:

Patients need carefully designed meals for faster recovery.
Pregnant women require balanced, trimester-specific nutrition.
Fitness enthusiasts push for protein-rich, goal-driven diets.

⚠️ The challenge? Dieticians are expensive and often inaccessible. Families on tight budgets feel that eating healthy is a luxury. Preparing separate meals for everyone at home is time consuming, costly, and stressful. As a result, people compromise leading to worsening health, rising stress, and higher medical expenses.

✨ That’s why I built MealCompass AI - an AI powered web app to make personalized, affordable, and medically relevant nutrition meal plans available to everyone regardless of wealth, education, or location.

🚀 What it does

MealCompass AI is an AI-powered web app that generates personalized, budget-friendly meal plans.
Users enter their diet type, health conditions, allergies, location, and budget. The app then creates weekly plans with:

🌟 Features

✅ Budget-friendly meal plans for any health goal
✅ Supports diet types: Any, Veg, Non-Veg, Vegan, Jain
✅ Dynamic disease selection (e.g., diabetes, pregnancy, recovery)
✅ Allergy filtering
✅ Real-time ingredient pricing and availability
✅ Family mode with portion control
✅ Downloadable grocery lists & PDF meal summaries

🛠️ How we built it

Frontend: React.js + Tailwind CSS for a clean, responsive interface
Backend: Node.js + Express.js for REST APIs
AI Layer: Gemini API for dynamic meal generation
Utilities: Currency & location APIs for pricing, PDF generation for downloadable plans

⚡ Challenges we ran into

Designing intuitive forms that support diverse dietary and medical needs
Handling dynamic ingredient availability and pricing across regions
Ensuring recommendations were culturally appropriate and inclusive
Balancing personalization with a simple, distraction-free user experience

🏆 Accomplishments we’re proud of

Built a platform that serves patients, families, and health-focused individuals equally well
Integrated real-time ingredient pricing and global availability data
Enabled full personalization without requiring a dietician
Delivered a clean, beautiful interface that makes healthy eating approachable

📚 What we learned

How to design inclusive nutrition tech that works across cultures and conditions
The importance of clear UX when handling complex inputs
Techniques to seamlessly connect AI-generated content with web interfaces
Why budget transparency is key to building trust in health apps