# Nutrition MCP MCP Server

Personal nutrition tracking — log meals, track macros, review history, import from another app.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Nutrition MCP yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://nutrition-mcp.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nutrition-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://nutrition-mcp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Known issues

**36 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Import discards the export's timezone column, so a re-import re-dates every meal against the profile's current zone

Found while fixing #69 (PR #96); deliberately left out of scope there.

`export_meals` writes a `timezone` column precisely so the file is self-describing about which zone its wall clocks belong to — `src/export.ts:26` in `CSV_COLUMNS`, `src/export.ts:61` writing `csvEscape(tz)`, and the comment at `src/export.ts:50-52` says so outright. The importer then throws that away:

- The widget's `ALIASES` table (`public/widgets/src/templates/import-meals.html:260-344`) has no `timezone` entry, so the c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp/issues/97) · 2026-08-07 · closed · 1 comment

### validateLoggedAt guards only the weight tools — meals and water accept future and garbage timestamps

**Found by logic audit (confirmed independently by two auditors).**

`validateLoggedAt` (`src/tz.ts:212-228`) is called only in `log_weight` (`src/mcp.ts:2679-2680`) and `update_weight` (`src/mcp.ts:3070-3071`). It is absent from `log_meal` (`:1026`), `update_meal` (`:2399`), and `log_water` (`:2467`). Bulk import independently caps future timestamps at 48 h (`src/import.ts:478-487`).

**Failure scenarios:**
- `log_meal(logged_at: "2027-03-01T09:00:00Z")` (mis-parsed year) succeeds silently; the

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp/issues/75) · 2026-08-04 · closed · 1 comment

### Import widget sends rows_skipped only with chunk 0, causing false 'rows may have been dropped' warnings

**Found by logic audit (confirmed independently by two auditors).**

`public/widgets/src/templates/import-meals.html:714` sends `rows_skipped: i === 0 ? S.skipped : 0`, but `S.skipped` counts skips across the whole file, and skipped rows create interior `source_line` gaps wherever they occur. The server's integrity check is per call (`src/import.ts:891-905`).

**Failure scenario:** a Lose It! export with deleted/blank/totals rows scattered through the file, large enough for 2+ chunks. A later ch

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp/issues/73) · 2026-08-04 · closed · 1 comment

### Cache token verification: ~80ms floor on every MCP request, ~92% of which do no tool work

## Finding

From a 4h25m production traffic review (2026-07-24 00:57–05:22 UTC):

`POST /mcp` responses that succeeded (200/202, n=1,295):

```
min  79 ms
p50 111 ms
p75 134 ms
p90 162 ms
p95 181 ms
p99 211 ms
max 448 ms
```

**Nothing ever returns faster than 79 ms.** For contrast, in the same window `GET /` health checks ran p50 **1 ms**, and 401/429 responses p50 **0 ms** — so the runtime itself is idle-fast. The floor is downstream work on the authenticated path, and the obvious candidate is

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp/issues/52) · 2026-07-24 · open · 1 comment

### Return 503, not 401, when a token cannot be verified

## Context

`getUserIdByToken` used to collapse "token not found" and "Supabase unreachable" into a single `null`. On branch `fix/unauth-mcp-rate-limiting` it was split into a discriminated `TokenLookup`:

```ts
export type TokenLookup =
    | { status: "valid"; userId: string }
    | { status: "invalid" }
    | { status: "unavailable" };
```

That split was needed because the new repeat-auth-failure bans would otherwise count an outage against every active user and keep them shed for 5–60 minut

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp/issues/48) · 2026-07-24 · open · 1 comment

### Most recent

### The "Other agents" install tab scrolls the landing page sideways at 320px

At a 320px viewport the landing page scrolls horizontally. The single element crossing `x = 320` is `LABEL.seg-other` — the "Other agents" tab in the install card's segmented control.

**Measured** at 320px wide:

| page | `LABEL.seg-other` right edge | `documentElement.scrollWidth` | `clientWidth` |
|---|---|---|---|
| `/` | 325.9px | 326 | 320 |
| `/de/` | 329.8px | 330 | 320 |
| `/uk/` | 332.7px | 332 | 320 |
| `/ja/` | *no such label* | **320** | 320 |

Japanese isolates the cause: it render

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp/issues/134) · 2026-08-26 · closed · 0 comments

### Nav reserves badge space on every page, including those where the badge can never appear

`.nav-has-badge` reserves horizontal space for the live-stats notification badge in the header nav and the mobile sheet. That reservation exists so the badge's arrival mid-read never reflows the nav — a real concern, but only on the landing page, because that is the only page whose script ever fills the badge in. Everywhere else it ships `[hidden]` and stays that way.

So `/tools`, `/privacy`, `/terms` and every `/alternatives/*` page — × 9 locales — carry permanent dead space in the nav for som

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp/issues/130) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments

### Nutrition Facts odometer overflows the panel at 390px once a delta tag appears

On a narrow phone the calorie odometer in the `.facts-cal` row overflows its own panel as soon as a `.delta` tag is inserted beside it.

**Measured** at 390×844 on the landing page:

| state | odometer right edge | row right edge | viewport |
|---|---|---|---|
| delta present | **387.3px** | 349px | 390px |
| delta hidden | 349px | 349px | 390px |

`.facts-cal` reports `scrollWidth` 346 vs `clientWidth` 308.

**Cause:** `showDelta()` inserts the tag into the same flex row as the odometer (`host.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp/issues/129) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments

### kg/lb toggle fails WCAG 2.5.3 (Label in Name) in every locale

The weight-unit toggle in the live-stats panel shows the symbol as its visible text (`kg` / `lb`) but carries the spelled-out word as its accessible name (`aria-label="Kilograms"` / `"Pounds"`, and each locale's equivalent).

WCAG 2.5.3 *Label in Name* requires the accessible name to contain the visible label text. It does not here, so a voice-control user saying **"click lb"** cannot reach the button — the control it matches against is named "Pounds".

**Where:** `scripts/gen-index.ts` (the `.f

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp/issues/128) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments

### Meal-logged widget labels a past day "Calories today" and never shows which day it is

Updating (or logging) a meal on a **past** date renders the meal-logged widget with the calorie ring labelled **"Calories today"**, so a backfilled day reads as if it were today's intake.

## Repro

1. Have nutrition goals set (otherwise the widget renders nothing by design).
2. `update_meal` (or `log_meal`) with a `logged_at` on an earlier date.
3. The widget paints the correct totals **for that past day** — but the ring says "Calories today" and nothing on the card names the date.

## Cause

T

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp/issues/114) · 2026-08-15 · open · 0 comments

### Export all tracked data (meals, water, weight, goals, profile) as a single ZIP

## Problem

`export_meals` is the only way out of the server, and it only covers the `meals` table. Everything else a user has entered — water, weight, goals, and profile settings — has no export path at all. Someone who asks "give me all my data" (a backup before switching devices, a GDPR-style takeout, or just a spreadsheet of their weight history) cannot get it, and `delete_account` is destructive with no way to save anything but meals first.

## Proposal

Add a full-account export that bundl

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp/issues/112) · 2026-08-15 · closed · 0 comments

### Desktop clients have no way to get the current time, so logging a meal stalls or lands on the wrong day

## Symptom

Logging a meal from the Claude **mobile** app works: the model knows the current date and time and fills `logged_at` (or knowingly omits it). From **desktop** (and other hosts that don't inject the wall clock into the system prompt) the same request stalls — the model says it can't determine the current time and asks the user what time it is, or guesses a time/date and files the entry on the wrong day.

The difference is entirely host-side: some clients put "current date/time" into t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp/issues/102) · 2026-08-09 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 20 reports Pod holds for Nutrition MCP](/mcp/nutrition-mcp/issues) — of 36 qualified upstream.

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