How do I check if a recipe is suitable for diabetes?

Paste your recipe text, a recipe URL, or a YouTube cooking video into MedMenu's recipe checker. Select 'Diabetes' as a condition, and the tool will analyze the recipe's nutrition against ADA (American Diabetes Association) dietary guidelines, including net carbs, glycemic load, added sugar, and fiber per serving.

Can I check a recipe for multiple health conditions at once?

Yes. MedMenu lets you check any recipe against multiple conditions simultaneously — diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, chronic kidney disease, and celiac disease. The analysis shows per-condition suitability based on published dietary guidelines from organizations like the ADA, AHA, and KDIGO.

Where does the nutrition data come from?

All nutrition values are computed from USDA FoodData Central, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's comprehensive food composition database. Each ingredient in your recipe is matched to a USDA entry, and per-serving nutrition is calculated based on the quantities and number of servings you specify.

Can I analyze a recipe from a YouTube video?

Yes. Paste a YouTube cooking video URL and MedMenu will extract the recipe from the video's transcript, then run a full nutrition analysis against your selected health conditions. This works with most English-language cooking videos that include ingredient lists.

How accurate is the nutrition analysis?

We benchmark our pipeline against dietitian-verified recipes from the ADA Diabetes Food Hub and DaVita. For example, our analysis of DaVita's Sweet and Sour Chicken estimated 301 calories vs the dietitian-verified 310 calories, and the ADA's Lentil Stew matched carbohydrates exactly at 29g per serving. See the comparison tables on our Check My Recipe page for full details.

Recipe Nutrition Checker for Health Conditions

Paste any recipe, URL, or YouTube cooking video. Get instant per-serving nutrition analysis checked against dietary guidelines for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, CKD, and celiac disease.

MedMenu reads the ingredient list, matches each item to USDA food composition data, and divides by the number of servings the recipe makes. You get the potassium, sodium, phosphorus, protein and carbohydrate in one portion, next to the published guideline figure for each condition you pick, so you can see where the dish lands before you cook it.

Every threshold we compare against is named, and the recipes in MedMenu are checked the same way.

What you get back

Calories, protein, carbohydrate, fat and fiber for one serving, not for the whole pot.
The minerals that matter most on a kidney diet: potassium, phosphorus and sodium in milligrams.
How each of those numbers compares with the published guideline figure for the conditions you select.
A portion note when the dish fits at a smaller serving rather than the one the recipe suggests.
Which ingredients are driving the numbers, so you know what to swap.

Which conditions it checks

Chronic kidney disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and celiac disease. Pick more than one and the analysis holds the recipe against all of them at once, which is the situation most people are actually in.

MedMenu is an information tool and does not give medical advice. Talk to your own care team about what belongs in your diet.