Lagos-based start-up EatWell Technologies launches EatWell AI, a personalised nutrition platform tailored to African diets, integrating meal analysis, activity tracking, and community health partnerships to drive proactive wellbeing in Nigeria and beyond.
EatWell Technologies, a Lagos-based digital health start-up, has launched EatWell AI, an artificial intelligence-powered nutrition platform aimed at helping people make more informed choices about food, exercise and long-term wellbeing. The company says the service is designed to support preventive care by making nutrition guidance more relevant to everyday African diets, rather than relying on databases built largely around Western meals.
The launch comes as digital health products increasingly compete to offer personalised dietary advice, with several newer platforms also focusing on local cuisines and practical tracking tools. EatWell says its own system is built around commonly eaten Nigerian foods such as jollof rice, egusi soup, amala, moi moi and suya, and is underpinned by a proprietary glycaemic index and glycaemic load database covering more than 2,000 local dishes. The company says that is intended to better reflect the way African diets affect blood sugar, weight management and metabolic health.
EatWell AI combines meal scanning, calorie and food logging, activity monitoring, goal tracking and personalised nutrition prompts in a single app. Users can photograph a meal and receive an analysis of what is on the plate, with the information then used alongside their health objectives. Founder and chief executive Jon Emerenini said the aim is not to wait for illness to develop before acting, but to make nutrition part of everyday healthcare. He described the platform as “nutrition data infrastructure for Africa”, arguing that the continent has long lacked the underlying data needed to give practical guidance on local eating habits.
The company is also pursuing partnerships across Nigeria’s healthcare system, including with doctors, hospitals, health maintenance organisations, pharmacies, employers, banks and government health programmes. It wants the platform to work alongside clinicians rather than replace them, and is exploring deployment through primary healthcare centres. The broader goal, EatWell says, is to extend personalised nutrition support beyond appointments and into communities where specialist dietetic services are limited, while also making the app available to users across Africa and in the diaspora.
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