An assessment, not a diary
Most nutrition apps ask you to log everything you eat, every day, forever. Vittelio inverts that. It borrows the shape of a food-frequency questionnaire — the kind of instrument nutrition researchers use to measure eating patterns — and turns it into a quick, friendly setup step: you report the dishes of your usual week and roughly how often each one appears.
That single report is enough to compute a real MIND diet score, because the MIND diet is defined by weekly frequency — how often leafy greens, berries, fish, or red meat show up across your week — not by any single day or plate.
How it works
- Search more than 600 dishes across breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks — from pancakes and cheeseburgers to chili, salads, and mixed nuts.
- Pick a rough frequency for each dish. “Most days” or “a few times a week” is exactly the level of precision the score needs.
- Be honest. The point of the first score is a true baseline. There is no judgment attached to it — a lower number simply means more room to improve.
Vittelio also runs a few gentle plausibility checks — for example, if too few meals are filled in — so an accidental or incomplete report doesn't produce a misleading score.
A few minutes, once
The assessment is the only real setup the app asks of you. Afterwards, meals log themselves as you cook and there is nothing to enter every day. If your eating changes for good — a move, a new routine — you can re-assess any time from the Profile tab and set a fresh baseline.