Plate Pal

Calories, protein, carbs, fat, sugar and salt for everyday foods, restaurant and fast-food dishes, whole meals and packaged products, scaled to the amount you…

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What it can do

  • Get Food Nutrition: Calories and macros for a food, dish or product, for the amount the user says. Use for "how many calories in a Big Mac?", "protein in 200g chicken breast", "calories in chicken bir
  • Get Barcode Nutrition: Nutrition for a packaged product by barcode, with UK traffic lights. Use for "is this barcode high in sugar?", "how many calories in this?" after a scan, or "what's the salt in
  • Get Meal Ideas: Simple meal ideas by goal, diet and meal, with rough macros. Use for "give me a high protein halal dinner idea", "a quick vegan lunch", "cheap vegetarian breakfast ideas". Goals: high

What data it sees

Do you need an account

No: the server works without sign-in

Calories, protein, carbs, fat, sugar and salt for everyday foods, restaurant and fast-food dishes, whole meals and packaged products, scaled to the amount you say (grams, servings, sizes, or items like 2 eggs). Barcode lookups with UK traffic-light flags, and simple meal ideas by goal and diet, including halal. General information, not medical or dietetic advice.

Free and read-only: no sign-in, no key, and nothing about you is stored. Built by Good Turn Studio.

How to connect

How to connect Plate Pal to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://platepal--goodturnstudio.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect Plate Pal to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://platepal--goodturnstudio.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect Plate Pal to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://platepal--goodturnstudio.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (3)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

get_food_nutritionCalories and macros for a food, dish or product, for the amount the user says. Use for "how many calories in a Big Mac?", "protein in 200g chicken breast", "calories in chicken biryani", "a slice of pepperoni pizza", "a large latte" or a whole meal like "2 eggs, 2 slices of toast and a coffee". Put the whole amount and food in q, or pass grams or servings separately. Generic foods and dishes (thousands, including fast food and restaurant dishes) use USDA values with real portion weights (slice, cup, small, medium, large, one item); brands come from Open Food Facts. Chain items ("McDonald's large fries", "a Greggs sausage roll", "KFC Zinger burger", "grande latte from Starbucks", "6 inch Italian BMT from Subway", "20 piece McNuggets") use the chain's own published figures for that size, UK or US by country, and return a chain object (name, region, item, size, weight_published); when the chain doesn't publish a weight, amount.grams is null and per_100 values are null. For a chain item not in the table, a typical USDA version is used and the say line says so. A whole meal returns items (each food with its amount and nutrition) and total. Returns nutrition for the amount, per_100 values, portions, UK traffic lights (per 100 g, or per 100 ml for drinks) and caffeine_mg for drinks that have it.
get_barcode_nutritionNutrition for a packaged product by barcode, with UK traffic lights. Use for "is this barcode high in sugar?", "how many calories in this?" after a scan, or "what's the salt in 5000157024886?". Returns per 100 g (or 100 ml) and per serving values, traffic lights for fat, saturates, sugars and salt, Nutri-Score, allergens and a Halal or Not? link for checking the ingredients
get_meal_ideasSimple meal ideas by goal, diet and meal, with rough macros. Use for "give me a high protein halal dinner idea", "a quick vegan lunch", "cheap vegetarian breakfast ideas". Goals: high protein, low carb, budget, quick, high fibre. Diets: vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, halal. Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack. You can pass the user's words in q instead. Ideas rotate daily. It does not set calorie or weight targets; a weight-loss request gets lighter, filling ideas (goal lighter, 450 calories or less) and a pointer to a doctor or dietitian, with no shop links.