Curated interaction database
FDA-approved tier-1 medications with structured food-drug interaction data, expanding to supplements.
Food-safe in seconds.
Add your meds, snap your plate, and see food-drug interactions before your next bite.
Built by an MD for people on medications.
Food can change how your meds work.
Everyday foods can blunt, boost, or block common medications. Most people on multiple prescriptions never get a clear answer at the counter.
- Common groceries can interact with statins, blood thinners, and antibiotics.
- Drug labels are dense; pharmacists are busy.
- You need an answer at the table, not next week.
How it works
Three steps. No paperwork, no portal.
Add your meds
Build a private medication list in under a minute. Edit any time.
Snap your plate
Take a photo of the meal in front of you. Our AI identifies the foods.
See your alerts
Severity-coded interactions appear before your next bite. Eat, swap, or ask.
What you get
Built for the moment before you eat, not after.
AI food identification
Snap a plate. Our vision model identifies ingredients so you do not have to log them by hand.
Severity-coded alerts
Critical, caution, soft, and safe. Know which interactions need attention and which are background noise.
Privacy-first by design
No PHI. Your medication list stays on your account, never sold, never used for ads.
Founder
Built by an MD for people on medications.
It began with a question patients asked over and over in clinic, and the conviction that they deserved a faster answer than phone tag with a pharmacy.
MedPlate started in a kitchen, not a lab. Nitesh “Tesh” Kumar, MD, MBA built it because the people he cared about (patients, family, friends on multiple medications) kept asking the same question in a slightly nervous voice: can I eat this?He wanted to give them an answer that was honest about what we know, careful about what we don’t, and respectful of the fact that real life happens at mealtime. He still does.
Frequently asked
Is MedPlate medical advice?
No. MedPlate is a wellness and informational tool. It helps you screen for potential food-drug interactions, but it does not diagnose, treat, or replace your pharmacist or physician. Always confirm changes to your diet or medication with a licensed clinician.
What medications does it support?
We cover FDA-approved tier-1 medications with structured interaction data, and we are actively expanding tier-2 coverage for supplements. Inside the app you can search and see exactly what is supported before you commit.
Is my data private?
Your medication list is treated as sensitive health data. We do not store PHI, we do not sell your data, and telemetry is anonymized. Read the full Privacy Policy.
How accurate is the AI?
MedPlate provides probabilistic screening with severity-coded alerts — critical, caution, soft, safe. It is designed to flag what may matter, not to be the final word. We always encourage confirming with your pharmacist or doctor.
Start eating with confidence.
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