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Garmin Adds Nutrition Tracking to Garmin Connect as a Connect+ Subscription Feature

Access requires the Connect+ tier, reported at $6.99 a month, with 30‑day trials for new users plus limited 14‑day trials for past testers.

Overview

  • Users can log calories and macronutrients through a global food database, barcode scanning, AI image recognition, or manual and custom entries.
  • Active Intelligence provides AI‑driven insights that link eating habits to metrics such as sleep quality and training outcomes.
  • Personalized calorie and macro targets are generated from profile and activity data, with options to set custom goals like higher daily protein.
  • Compatible Garmin smartwatches offer quick nutrition overviews, let users add favorite or recent foods, and support voice access on select models.
  • Nutrition data can be added to the performance dashboard to help correlate consumption with training load and performance trends.