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Free Performance Nutrition Tool
Track Calories. See The Full Day.
Search trusted foods, choose the serving you actually ate, and track calories plus the macros that drive performance. Start now—no signup wall.
Trusted USDA nutrition
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Daily intake
Your daily nutrition
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Review the USDA-verified meal and choose where it belongs in your day.
Enter a food name or use the common-food list.
Daily food log
Your meals and totals
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Search your first food above. Each food updates your calories and macros instantly.
Built for repeatable tracking
How to track calories accurately without slowing down
Search for the food as you ate it—raw, cooked, roasted, branded, or generic. Choose the closest match, select your serving, and enter the quantity. The tracker calculates the nutrition for the amount you ate.
Match the preparation
Cooked rice and dry rice give different results. Choose the description that matches the food on your plate.
Measure the serving
Choose a listed household portion when available or enter the gram amount for the closest result.
Read the trend
One meal is context. Repeated daily tracking shows whether your intake consistently supports your target.
Common Questions & Answers
Macro and calorie tracking related questions
What is the difference between tracking calories and tracking macros?
Calories measure total food energy. Macros show where much of that energy comes from: protein, carbohydrates, and fat. StrengthCode tracks both, plus fiber, so you can see the daily energy total and the nutritional structure behind it.
Should I log food raw or cooked?
Log the preparation state that matches the amount you measured. If you weighed chicken after cooking, choose a cooked chicken result. If you weighed dry rice before cooking, choose a dry rice result. Water gained or lost during cooking changes weight, so mixing states can distort the calculation.
How do grams, servings, and quantity change the nutrition total?
Each USDA food has nutrition values tied to a measured amount. StrengthCode converts the serving you select into grams, multiplies it by your quantity, and scales calories and nutrients from the food's per-100-gram values.
Why can a product label differ from the tracker?
Recipes, serving definitions, rounding rules, and product reformulations can create differences. For a packaged food you are holding, use its current Nutrition Facts label when it conflicts with a database result, and check that the brand and serving size match.
What happens when a nutrient value is missing?
StrengthCode marks an unavailable nutrient as unavailable instead of turning it into a false zero. The food can still be logged, but you should treat the affected daily nutrient total as incomplete.
Can I use the tracker for muscle gain, maintenance, or fat loss?
Yes. Set a daily calorie target that fits your goal, then use repeated food logs and body-weight trends to judge whether the target is working. A calculator gives you a starting estimate; your consistent real-world trend tells you when to adjust.
Does the tracker choose my protein target?
The tracker totals the protein in the foods you log, but it does not prescribe an individual protein target. Your appropriate target depends on body size, training, total energy intake, health context, and professional guidance when needed.
Where is my food log saved?
You can start without an account, in which case the log stays in this browser on this device. When you sign in, StrengthCode can synchronize the tracker data associated with your account so it is available across your signed-in sessions.
Nutrition information is educational and is not medical advice. Product recipes and food composition can vary; check the product label when it differs from the food you selected.