We got tired of guessing.

Mentzer is a small team of lifters and engineers in Bengaluru. We build the tracker we always wanted: one that knows Indian food and never hides where a number came from.

Every tracker we tried was built for someone else's kitchen. So the numbers were guesses, and we were the ones paying for them.

It started in a gym group chat. One of us cut for twelve weeks on numbers from a popular app, stalled for six of them, and later found the app's "dal makhani" was off by nearly half. Not a typo. A guess, dressed up as a fact.

We went looking for the real numbers. India's everyday plates, the rotis, sabzis and katoris of dal, were either missing from the big databases or copied between them with no source attached. Nobody could tell us where a number came from. That felt like the actual problem. Not logging speed, not streaks. Trust.

So we started building the record: lab tests where it matters most, brand labels, USDA reference data, and community entries, each one tagged with its source, with estimates marked as estimates. Then we put a tracker on top of it that you talk to like a person.

The rule we run the company on is the same rule in the app: grams, not guesswork. If we don't know, we say so. That's it. That's the company.

The house rules.

01

Grams, not guesswork

A precise-looking number that's secretly a guess is worse than no number. We'd rather show you a marked estimate than a confident lie.

02

Every number shows its source

Tap any food and see exactly where its numbers came from: lab, label, reference, or community. If we can't trace it, we tag it.

03

Built for Indian kitchens

Katori, not "cup, cooked". Roti, not "flatbread (generic)". The food you actually eat is the default, not a workaround.

04

Your data is yours

Export everything, any time. Delete everything, for good. We never sell your data. The business is the subscription, not you.

The record so far.

3,500,000+Foods on record
640,000+Entries from verified sources
1,556Foods we sent to the lab ourselves

Why "Mentzer"?

A nod to Mike Mentzer, the bodybuilder who treated training like engineering. He measured, questioned, and cut everything that didn't hold up. We try to treat nutrition data the same way. No affiliation; just respect.

The team.

Small on purpose. Everyone here logs their food and lifts. We are user zero.

ABAbhinav R.Founder · Product

Started the group chat that started the company. Owns the app, the record's roadmap, and the house rules.

KSK. SharmaEngineering

Built the parser that turns "2 rotis, a katori rajma" into grams. Cares about milliseconds and decimal places.

NMN. MenonFood data

Runs the lab pipeline and the source tiers. The reason 1,556 foods carry a lab certificate instead of a shrug.

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