Track calories the MyPlate way, free: get your personalized daily calorie and food-group targets and check your meals against them. Preserving the MyPlate-format tracking USDA retired.
Use the free MyPlate Plan calculator to find your calorie goal and the amount you need from each of the five food groups. Open the calculator
As you eat, tally each meal against the five food groups — cups of fruit and vegetables, ounces of grains and protein, and cups of dairy.
Add up your running calorie total and food-group counts and compare them to your MyPlate targets for the day.
MyPlate.food gives you your personalized daily calorie and food-group targets for free, so you can track your intake against them. Use the MyPlate Plan calculator to get your numbers — calories plus cups and ounces for fruits, vegetables, grains, protein foods, and dairy — then check your meals against them each day. A built-in daily food log is in development.
The USDA retired SuperTracker — its free online diet and activity tracker — in 2018, and retired the MyPlate.gov website in January 2026. MyPlate.food is an independent project that preserves the MyPlate-format calorie and food-group targets those tools were built around, grounded in the USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2020–2025). It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USDA.
Start by getting your daily targets from the free MyPlate Plan calculator: a calorie goal and an amount for each of the five food groups. Then, as you eat, tally your meals against those amounts — counting cups of vegetables and fruit, ounces of grains and protein, and cups of dairy — and compare your running total to your calorie goal.
Your daily calorie needs depend on your age, sex, height, weight, and activity level. The MyPlate Plan calculator estimates them using the National Academies' Estimated Energy Requirement equations and translates the number into MyPlate food-group amounts you can track against.