Low sodium & saturated fat, with real sodium math
Sodium hides everywhere, and "eat less salt" is useless advice without numbers. Plate Planner puts a sodium figure on every meal, totals your day against a cap, and flags the meals that blow it.
The heart-healthy profile also steers every generated dish toward the pattern cardiologists actually describe — and there’s a one-tap lower-sodium swap for any meal that’s over.
Set it once, in seconds. Turn the profile on in your nutrition goals and every meal, swap, side dish and what-can-I-make suggestion respects it — for you, and for anyone you add to your table. Free, no account needed to start.
No. The sodium settings and goals are general informational tools, not medical advice. If you have a heart condition or prescribed sodium limit, plan with your doctor and use ours as a convenience.
Sodium is the one number no dataset can pin down the way it pins protein or fat — it depends on your brands, your stock and how much salt you add — so each dish carries an estimate, labelled as one. Use them to compare meals and steer the week, not as lab measurements.
Yes — 1,500 mg is the heart-healthy preset, and you can set any cap (or none) in your nutrition goals.
It gets flagged rather than quietly averaged away, and you can rewrite that single meal with a one-tap lower-sodium swap. The rest of your week stays exactly as it was.
1,500 mg is the stricter of the two figures in common circulation and the one usually quoted for people actively managing blood pressure, so it’s the preset. It is a default, not a prescription — set it to whatever your doctor gave you.
It shouldn’t. The profile is written to build flavour from herbs, citrus, garlic and spices, so dishes are seasoned hard in every direction except salt.
Yes — profiles stack. Heart-healthy plus low-cholesterol is a natural pairing, and heart-healthy plus kidney-friendly shares the sodium tracking while adding potassium and phosphorus.
No. Plan a free week first; an account only becomes useful when you want the plan on more than one device.
Plate Planner is a meal-planning tool, not medical, nutritional or health advice. Recipes and nutrition values are AI-generated estimates — verify ingredients (especially allergens) before cooking, and plan any medical diet with your doctor or dietitian. Full disclaimer.