Smartwatches and fitness trackers are great at tracking your health, like steps walked, heart rate, sleep quality, how many calories you’ve burned, and so on. But for the most part, it lacks the most important part of staying healthy: your food intake. However, the good news for Garmin users is that nutrition tracking is coming to your wearable.
Garmin to bring nutrition tracking to wearables
At CES 2026, Garmin announced that it is bringing nutrition tracking to its wearables. But what does this mean? Does it mean your wearable can track what you’re eating and log it? Unfortunately, it’s not that exciting. Instead, users will have to manually log their food within the Garmin Connect app.
From there, users will get detailed information like their macros including protein, fats, carbs, as well as calories. Garmin is also including the use of what they’re calling Active Intelligence insights that will help users meet their nutrition goals. Basically, it sounds like Garmin built its own version of MyFitnessPal and integrated it into their app.
However, the upside is that this is clearly a more integrated solution. From their smartwatches, users can get a quick overview of their nutrition and track their food intake. This saves users the hassle of toggling between different apps.
Available, but not for everyone
That being said, we have some bad news for some Garmin owners out there. According to the company, its new nutrition tracking feature is a perk for those who have a Garmin Connect Plus subscription. This is a subscription feature that costs $6.99 a month, or $69.99 if you buy an entire year’s worth.
This means that if you’re not a subscriber, you’ll have to sit this feature out. But if you think that the nutrition feature is worth it, you’ll of course get access to other features. This includes more personalized insights, access to your Performance Dashboard, some coaching videos, and more.
However, if you think that $6.99 a month is too much, like we said, this feature sounds remarkably similar to MyFitnessPal, which has a free version. So, that could be worth checking out as a free alternative instead.
