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Importing a recipe

Paste a recipe link or text and VitalPlate pulls out the ingredients and steps, estimates the nutrients, and scores it for you.

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Found a recipe you like somewhere on the web? You can bring it into VitalPlate in a few seconds. It becomes your recipe — saved to your account, with nutrition filled in and a score against your plan.

How to import

  1. 1Open Recipes and choose Import.
  2. 2Paste a recipe link, or paste the recipe text directly if you already have it copied.
  3. 3Tap Import. VitalPlate reads the page and pulls out the title, ingredient list, and steps.
  4. 4Review what came through and save it to your recipes.

What VitalPlate fills in

For each imported recipe, VitalPlate estimates the six tracked nutrients per serving — sodium, potassium, phosphorus, saturated fat, added sugar, and protein. It tries a structured reader first (many recipe sites publish their details in a format apps can read cleanly), and falls back to an AI estimate when a page is less structured.

Imported nutrition is a best-effort estimate, not a lab measurement. Brands, portion sizes, and substitutions all shift the real numbers. Treat it as a helpful guide, and edit anything you know to be off.

Then it gets scored

Once a recipe is saved, VitalPlate scores it against your health profile and shows a Good fit, Caution, or Avoid verdict with the reasons behind it. To understand what those tiers mean and how the nutrient checks work, see Understanding your food scores and Nutrients we check.

For your security, VitalPlate blocks links that point to private or unsafe addresses. If a link will not import, try copying the recipe text and pasting that instead.
VitalPlate gives you decision support, not medical advice. If a recipe matters for a specific condition or medication, check the details against your own care plan.

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