After months of testing in Oura Labs with positive feedback, Meals has transitioned to a permanent feature in the Oura App for Oura Ring Gen3 and Oura Ring 4 members using the app in English.
Food has the power to transform how you feel. With Meals, you’ll uncover insights into your dietary choices, including a nutritional breakdown, personalized feedback, and meal timing, to fuel your day and support your health.
Simply snap a photo of your meal in the Oura App, and let Oura Advisor (Oura’s AI-powered health coach) deliver key insights about the nutritional content of your meal. The result: immediate, actionable advice that empowers you to make the best choices for your body.
How to Use Meals
To get started, open the Oura App and access Meals from the ☰ menu in the upper-left corner or the + button in the bottom-right of the Today tab.
To log a meal, snack, or beverage, you can:
- Take a photo of your meal using your camera
- Upload a photo from your camera roll
- Type in (or dictate!) a description of what you ate
Powered by cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI), Oura automatically detects food items in your meal and instantly delivers a detailed overview of its nutritional content.
Once analyzed, Oura Advisor provides immediate feedback on nutritional choices, offering suggestions like simple swaps or small adjustments to help you make informed choices that work for your lifestyle.
Oura also provides a Nutrition Breakdown of each meal, showing estimated levels of the following nutritional aspects.
- Protein: Supports muscle repair and growth, boosts metabolism to aid in weight management, and promotes satiety to reduce hunger and overeating
- Fiber: Aids healthy digestion, helps regulate blood glucose, and promotes satiety and gut health
- Processing level: Gives insight into how refined or whole your meal is, which can impact satiety and nutrition density
- Added sugars: Reducing added sugars helps prevent glucose spikes followed by crashes, supports weight management, and reduces the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease
- Total fats: Essential for hormone production and long-term energy, though types of fat can vary in impact
- Total carbs: One of your body’s main energy sources; carbs play an important part in activity and recovery as well as overall nutrition
Each component is labeled as low, moderate, or high to help you quickly understand the nutritional balance of your meal.
Unlike traditional meal tracking apps that focus heavily on calorie counts and numerical goals, Meals is designed to de-emphasize strict quantification. Instead of encouraging you to fixate on hitting daily targets or limits, it helps you build awareness around a few core concepts—like fiber, protein, and food processing—to support sustainable habits.
Meals is about making small, meaningful changes over time while preserving the enjoyment and flexibility of eating. Rather than penalizing your choices, it offers neutral insights that empower you to understand how your meals may relate to things like energy, recovery, or metabolic health—on your own terms.
Additionally, the Meals feature will display your meals on a 24-hour clock, alongside your sleep and wake times, allowing you to optimize your eating habits for better sleep and energy levels.
Whether you’re working toward a specific health goal or simply aiming to feel your best each day, Meals empowers you to take small, sustainable steps toward better nutrition and metabolic health.
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Oura Ring is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent medical conditions or illnesses. Please do not make any changes to your medication, nutrition, or workouts without first consulting your doctor or another medical professional.