Track Calories/Nutrition by percentage of plant based vs animal based

TwoRice

Allow users to answer the questions "What percentage of my diet is plant based?", "How much of my protein comes from plants vs animals?", "Which sources am I getting key vitamins from?".

Also allow users with goals to reduce their meat and animal product consumption have a way to track their progress.

I imagine this being achieved through adding functionality to allow foods to be classified as plant based or animal based and then have a breakdown of how many of your calories come from plant based sources vs animal sources.

This would be challenging to implement for aggregate meals eg. a microwave meal that contains rice and chicken. Perhaps you could define a exact or estimated percentage for what portion of the calories are plant based vs animal based. Perhaps even an AI model could predict the breakdown of food/your diet into plant vs animal based - This could be a feature for premium members

You could also extend this down into macro nutrients, with the likely the most valuable being protein.

AnnPT77

It already answers which sources are giving you any of the vitamins it tracks, as an average over any week. I believe it's premium MFP only, though, but not sure. It's in the Nutrition page of the phone/tablet app, Nutrients tab. Switch to week view, click on the nutrient you're interested in, get this:

Click on "View More" at the bottom, get this:

Just for honesty, I'm not up-voting the overall suggestion. As a long-term ovo-lacto vegetarian, I don't really care what fraction of my eating is animal vs. plant beyond what I intuitively understand while eating it, or from visually scanning my diary. I have a daily veggie/fruit grams minimum that I aim for without MFP tracking it, and easy thing because I eat lots of whole foods and log nearly all of them in grams. As someone who had a long IT career with a lot of data management, data architecture and data definition experience, I think defining plant vs. animal in an international app with a crowd-sourced database would be likely to be so inaccurate/misleading as to be not useful, and the probable cost of implementation would likely be pretty high for that IMO questionable benefit.

But that's just me. I'm not dissing you or others for having different wishes, suggestions, needs. I know many people are trying to eat more plants. I'm sure I'm cognitively biased here.