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Type the food name — something like 'Big Mac', 'flat white', or 'sushi'. Start simple. Shorter searches surface more options, and you can narrow down with filters after.

Try a different word for the same thing. 'Chips', 'hot chips', 'fries', and 'wedges' are all valid. Brand names like 'McChicken' or 'Whopper' also work well. Or browse by restaurant and scan the menu directly.

Yes. Use the brand filter in Search, or head to Brands to browse by chain. Tapping a brand shows its full menu.

KaiCheck indexes the major fast food and quick-service chains in New Zealand. New chains and menu updates are added regularly.

Category pills like Burgers, Drinks, and Snacks are quick shortcuts to narrow the list by food type. Tap one to filter — tap again to clear. You can combine a category with a nutrition filter.

Open the Filters panel and tap the filter chips — Low calorie, High protein, Low sugar, or Low fat. Results update immediately as you select.

Default is relevance. Switch to Healthiest to rank by KaiCheck score (A grades first), or Low calorie to put the lowest-kilojoule options at the top.

A grades better nutrition overall — the item is relatively lower in calories, fat, sugar, and sodium while delivering reasonable protein. D flags an item that's high in one or more of those nutrients relative to a typical serving.

The score is a useful comparison guide, not clinical advice. It reflects each restaurant's published nutrition data. Individual health needs always vary.

Recipes, ingredients, and portion sizes vary between chains. A grilled chicken wrap at one place can have very different nutrition to the 'same' item at another.

The full breakdown is on the Score guide page.

Tap the compare icon on any food card to add it to your compare tray — you'll see a tray appear at the bottom of the screen. Add another item, then tap Compare for side-by-side nutrition.

Up to four items at once. The compare view shows each item's nutrition alongside the others so you can spot the best option quickly.

No — the compare tray clears when you close the app. It's a temporary working space for in-the-moment decisions. Use Favourites or Saved Meals to keep items for later.

Tap the bookmark icon on any food card or food detail page. If you're signed in, it goes straight to your Favourites list.

A Saved Meal is a collection of items you've assembled — like a full order from one restaurant. Use Build a Meal to put it together, then revisit it any time to check the combined nutrition.

Your saved foods and saved meals belong to your signed-in account. Right now those account saves stay on your current browser while full cloud sync is still being connected.

No. You can search, browse, compare, and read any food detail without one. An account is only needed when you want saved foods, saved meals, your name, or custom macros.

Go to Settings > Macros & My Health and choose the goal that fits your day. KaiCheck uses it to estimate your daily calories, protein, carbs and fat.

Settings > Macros & My Health estimates your BMR using the Mifflin-St Jeor equation: women use 10 x weight kg + 6.25 x height cm - 5 x age - 161; men use 10 x weight kg + 6.25 x height cm - 5 x age + 5. KaiCheck multiplies that by your activity level, adjusts calories for your goal, sets protein from body weight and goal, sets fat as a percentage of calories, then gives the remaining calories to carbs. The macro ranges follow National Academies DRI/AMDR guidance, with NZ adult eating guidelines used as the local health context.

Health focus is an optional section inside Macros & My Health in Settings. You can select one or more conditions — Diabetes / blood sugar, High blood pressure, or Heart health — to tell KaiCheck which nutrients matter most to you. Once set, KaiCheck surfaces condition-specific alerts on food details and tightens scores for the nutrients that are relevant to your focus.

When a health focus is active, KaiCheck checks each food against that condition's thresholds before assigning the final grade. A caution-level result (e.g. moderately high sodium for High blood pressure) drops the grade by one step. A danger-level result (e.g. very high sodium in a single serve) forces a D regardless of the base score. Two or more caution results drop the grade by two steps. This only applies when Macros & My Health is fully saved — scores revert to standard grading if you clear the profile.

Diabetes / blood sugar flags high sugar (10 g+ caution, 20 g+ danger) and large carbohydrate serves (45 g+ caution, 75 g+ danger). High blood pressure flags high sodium (600 mg+ caution, 1000 mg+ danger). Heart health flags both saturated fat (5 g+ caution, 10 g+ danger) and sodium (600 mg+ caution, 1000 mg+ danger). These are general informational nudges, not clinical thresholds — always follow the advice of your health professional.

Tap Sign in from the navigation or from any save prompt. Enter your email to unlock account features, then keep browsing from the same place.

Once you're signed in, Settings lets you update your name, goal, and your Macros & My Health profile including health focus. Changes save immediately to your account state on this browser.