# Vegan Tracking With Protein Targets You Can Actually Hit Set gram-level protein targets, check the ingredient list of every logged meal, and get plant-based plans built from your cuisine, your goals, and the way you already eat. Two things make tracking harder on a vegan diet than most. Protein takes deliberate planning rather than arriving by default, and plant-based versions of familiar dishes are chronically under-represented in food databases — so the app often proposes the dairy or meat version of what you actually ate. SlimAI Calorie Tracker addresses both directly: gram-level macro targets so protein is a number rather than a hope, and ingredient-level editing on every meal so a recognised dish becomes your version of it. Eat smarter, not stricter. ## Protein as a Target, Not an Afterthought On a mixed diet, protein tends to look after itself. On a plant-based diet it is the macro that needs attention — spread across legumes, soy, grains, nuts, and seeds rather than concentrated in one component of the plate. A percentage split is a poor tool for that job. "Twenty percent protein" changes in grams every time your intake moves, and the target you are really working to is a gram figure that stays put. SlimAI lets you set your own daily calorie goal and gram-level protein, fat, and carbohydrate targets. The dashboard, the macro bars, and the weekly Insights charts then all run against that number. - **Gram-level protein targets:** Set the protein figure you are aiming for and track against it directly instead of converting from a percentage each day. - **Macro progress on the home screen:** Protein, carbohydrate, and fat progress sit on the dashboard alongside calories, so a low-protein day is visible before dinner rather than after. - **Weekly macro trends:** The Insights tab charts protein across a week or month, which is where plant-based shortfalls usually show up as a pattern rather than a single bad day. - **Per-ingredient protein contribution:** Each ingredient in a logged meal carries its own protein figure, so you can see which parts of a dish are actually doing the work. ## Making the AI Log Your Version of the Dish Plant-based cooking is full of substitutions, and a photo cannot always tell tofu from paneer or oat milk from dairy. This is where correction matters more than recognition. - **Tell it what you were looking for:** The Fix Results screen lets you type the dish name yourself, so a vegan version of a familiar recipe is one sentence away rather than a fight with the camera. - **Pick from similar dishes:** SlimAI proposes variants of the same recipe style with different proteins, which frequently includes the plant-based version you meant. - **Swap the ingredient outright:** Delete the dairy or meat component the AI assumed, then use the ingredient database to add what you actually used, with its own weight. - **Save it once, reuse it after:** Meals you correct can be re-logged from Saved and Recent, so a substitution only needs explaining once. ## Vegan Meal Plans From Your Own Profile Vegan is one of the preferred-diet options in SlimAI setup, alongside vegetarian, keto, Mediterranean, paleo, and no restrictions. Your diet plan is generated from that choice together with your lifestyle and activity level, your BMI and body inputs, your favourite cuisine and region, and any health details you chose to share. That combination matters on a plant-based diet more than most, because vegan food is deeply regional. A plan drawn from South Asian cooking looks nothing like one drawn from Mediterranean cooking, and both beat a generic list of bowls neither household would make. If you have a medical condition, are pregnant or breastfeeding, or take medication, consult a qualified health professional before making major changes to how you eat — including about nutrients that need particular attention on a fully plant-based diet. ## Beyond Macros: What Else the Food Screen Shows Plant-based does not automatically mean well-formulated, and a highly processed vegan diet is still a highly processed diet. - **Food health rating:** Every logged food carries a junk-level rating, so heavily processed plant-based products are flagged the same way anything else would be. - **Percent-of-daily-value nutrition rows:** Sugar, saturated and unsaturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, and potassium are shown as percent-of-daily-value on the food detail screen. - **Label scanning for plant-based products:** Vegan specialty products from smaller brands are often missing from barcode databases. Scan the printed nutrition panel instead. - **Cooking directions in the app:** The food detail screen shows cooking time and numbered directions, so a suggested dish is one you can make rather than one you have to go and research. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Is SlimAI good for tracking a vegan diet? Yes. Vegan is one of the preferred-diet options during setup, so meal suggestions and diet plans are built around plant-based eating rather than adapted to it. You can also set gram-level protein targets, which is the macro that needs the most deliberate planning on a plant-based diet. ### How do I track protein on a plant-based diet in SlimAI? Set your own gram-level protein target rather than a percentage split, and track against it on the home screen where macro progress sits next to calories. Each ingredient in a logged meal also carries its own protein contribution, so you can see which components are doing the work, and the Insights tab charts protein across a week or month to expose shortfalls as a pattern. ### What if SlimAI logs the dairy or meat version of my dish? Correct it before logging. The Fix Results screen lets you type the dish name you actually ate, the Similar Foods list often includes the plant-based variant, and on the food detail screen you can delete the assumed ingredient and add what you really used with its own weight. Your correction is what gets saved. ### Does SlimAI have vegan meal plans? Yes. Your diet plan is generated from your preferred diet together with your lifestyle and activity level, your BMI and body inputs, your favourite cuisine and region, and any health details you shared. Because vegan cooking is strongly regional, that cuisine input has a real effect on which dishes you are offered. ### Can SlimAI tell me if a vegan product is highly processed? Every logged food carries a junk-level food health rating and percent-of-daily-value nutrition rows for sugar, saturated and unsaturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, and potassium. Plant-based products are rated on the same basis as anything else rather than assumed to be healthy by category. Source: https://www.slimai.ai/diets/vegan ## Try SlimAI To try SlimAI, download SlimAI Calorie Tracker from the Apple App Store or Google Play and start the 3-day free trial; SlimAI Premium is then $1.49/month or $11.99/year (about $1/month), and can be cancelled anytime from the Apple or Google account that manages the subscription. - Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slimai-calorie-tracker/id6749062571 - Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slimai.app - Desktop (QR code): https://www.slimai.ai/download