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 — rotis, sabzis, 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, and 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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