Garmin reportedly developing food logging feature: Track your meals in Connect and enable nutrition guidance

Garmin appears to be preparing to integrate new features into Garmin Connect, or more generally, the Garmin ecosystem. Gadgets & Wearables, in an APK analysis of Garmin Connect 5.20, found strong indications of what appears to be a planned expansion of food tracking. This would essentially be a completely new feature, as Garmin Connect can already access data from sources like MyFitnessPal and use this data to calculate remaining calorie intake for a given goal, but cannot track food intake itself.

The software strongly suggests that users will be able to photograph and save their meals, and there appear to be restrictions on the number of photos that can be uploaded. Several questions remain unanswered. For example, it is unclear whether this food tracking feature will be a premium feature, which would mean that it would only be available to Garmin Connect+ subscribers. It is also unclear whether Garmin will be able to evaluate the photos; there are already AI-powered systems that provide at least an approximate estimation of the energy content and macronutrients from a photo.

Nutrition tracking is not the only planned feature, as users are expected to also receive recommendations for their food and drink intake. When combined with training plans, this could prove very useful for specialized athletes such as runners who require carbo-loading for an upcoming marathon.