What if a specific dish isn’t in the database?

Log the closest match from the 1,579 items and adjust the portion, or log a custom food entry with your own calorie and macro values.

How do dietary tiers affect logging?

Setting a strict vegetarian, eggetarian or non-vegetarian tier filters which foods and swap suggestions you see, so recommendations always match how you actually eat.

Does my macro target change automatically over time?

Yes — it recalculates as you log new weigh-ins, so it tracks your current weight rather than staying fixed at your starting numbers.

Guide

How to Count Macros with Indian Food

Last updated 26 July 2026

A macro tracker is only as useful as the food database behind it. IRONSLOG's nutrition intake sets a daily calorie and macro target from your stats, then lets you log real Indian meals — dal, roti, paneer, rice — directly against 1,579 foods with calories and macros per standard serving, no manual conversion required.

Where does the daily macro target come from?

Five questions — age, height, weight, activity level and goal — feed a calorie target that IRONSLOG splits into protein, carbohydrate and fat grams. The target updates automatically as you log new weigh-ins, so it tracks your actual trend instead of a number fixed once at signup.

How do I log a home-cooked meal that isn’t a packaged product?

Search the 1,579-item database by name — dal tadka, roti, poha, idli, dosa, rajma, chole and hundreds more are already there with calories and macros per standard serving, grouped by food category and tagged vegetarian or not, so a typical home-cooked plate doesn’t need estimating against a Western food list.

What if a meal pushes me over my macro target?

Open the meal swap tool on any planned item to see alternatives ranked by how well they keep the day's macros in range, filtered to your dietary tier (vegetarian, eggetarian, non-vegetarian) so a swap never breaks a dietary rule you didn't ask to break.

Counting macros against real Indian food takes six steps:

Set your calorie and macro target. Answer the five-question nutrition intake — age, height, weight, activity, goal.
Search the food database. Look up the meal you actually ate — dal, roti, paneer, curd and 1,575 more Indian foods are already there.
Log the serving size you had. Scale the standard-serving macros up or down to match your actual portion.
Check your running macro totals. See protein, carbs and fat against target for the day as you log each meal.
Swap a meal if you’re off-target. Use the swap tool to find a macro-matched alternative in your dietary tier.
Repeat daily and adjust with new weigh-ins. Your target recalculates as your logged weight changes.

Key takeaways

The daily macro target comes from a five-question intake and updates with new weigh-ins.
The 1,579-item database covers Indian staples directly — no manual unit conversion needed.
Meal swaps stay macro-matched and respect your dietary tier.
Portions scale from each food’s per-100g or standard-serving macros to what you actually ate.