TL;DR Garmin finally integrates full nutrition tracking directly into the Garmin Connect app, announced at CES 2026.
You can see calories burned and consumed together, log macros, and connect meals directly to training, recovery, and sleep inside Garmin Connect.
Garmin’s Active Intelligence ties what you eat to how you recover and sleep, surfacing insights like how late meals may impact rest.
If you use your Garmin watch to track runs, sleep, and stress but log your food in a different app, Garmin is making things easier. At CES 2026, the company announced a big update to Garmin Connect that now includes full nutrition tracking.
According to Garmin’s press release, you can now view both burned and consumed calories in one place, get AI insights on how your diet impacts recovery, and see how your meals relate to your performance.
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However, this isn’t a free update for all users. The comprehensive nutrition feature is exclusively for Garmin Connect+ subscribers, the company’s premium service tier that costs $7 per month or $70 per year.
Until now, nutrition has been Garmin’s weak spot. You could track calories and macros, but only by linking external services like MyFitnessPal and hoping the sync behaved itself. Garmin Connect handled workouts, sleep, stress, and recovery well, but food tracking never felt fully integrated.
This update helps close that gap. Now, you can log calories, carbs, protein, and fat right in the Connect app, and see daily, weekly, or monthly reports. Foods can be added manually through a searchable database, scanned via barcode, or estimated using your phone’s camera, which attempts to recognize meals from photos.
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