Paku is a food tracking app built to help you cultivate more mindful eating habits. It provides insights into how different foods and products may affect your body. However, Paku is not a medical device and should not be used to diagnose, treat, or prevent any medical condition.
We do not offer personalized dietary or medical guidance for individuals with specific health needs—such as food allergies, eating disorders, or diabetes. For any health-related concerns or treatment decisions, please consult a qualified healthcare professional.
Our mission is to help you understand the pros and cons of various foods and gently guide you toward healthier eating patterns through mindful tracking.
Paku's information is derived from publicly available sources listed below. We are not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, these sources.
Your recommended daily calorie intake is estimated using the Mifflin-St Jeor equation, which calculates your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) — the number of calories your body needs to maintain basic functions at rest. Based on your BMR, activity level, and goal (such as maintaining, losing, or gaining weight), we estimate your total daily calorie needs.
BMI (Body Mass Index):
BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate):
TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure):
Diet strategies for weight loss and weight gain:
When you scan a barcode, Paku looks the product up in two public databases. Product names, brands, images and nutrition facts may come from Open Food Facts, a collaborative, free and open database of food products from around the world. This data is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL); individual contents are under the Database Contents License and product images under CC BY-SA. Nutrition facts may also come from USDA FoodData Central (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service), whose Branded Foods data is in the public domain. Paku shows which source a scanned product came from, and you can always correct the numbers before logging. To look a barcode up, the app sends the barcode number (and nothing about you) to Open Food Facts directly from your phone and to USDA through Paku's servers.