Zomato rolls out 'Healthy Mode': Dishes now rated by protein, carbs and micronutrients

Zomato founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal on Monday announced the launch of a new “Healthy Mode”, aimed at helping customers make more nutritious eating choices, as part of its mission to promote “better food for more people”.

In a post on X, Goyal said the feature is designed to address a long-standing gap in the platform’s offerings.

“For years, there’s been something about Zomato that made me uneasy,” Goyal wrote. “We made eating out and ordering in easier than ever, but we never really helped people truly eat better… Healthy Mode is our first real step in putting that right.”

The new feature assigns every dish a Healthy Score, ranging from Low to Super, based on key nutritional parameters such as protein, complex carbohydrates, fibre and micronutrients, rather than just calories.

Goyal said the ratings are powered by a combination of artificial intelligence and restaurant data, while providing users with a clear explanation of what makes a dish healthy.

“This is not your run-of-the-mill healthy mode,” Goyal said, adding that the company has “kept the bar very high”, to the extent that “professional athletes can rely on Healthy Mode to find food that works for them.”

The service has been launched in Gurgaon and will be rolled out to other cities soon.

Goyal invited users to “try it, tear it apart, tell us where it fails,” describing the feature as a significant step towards making nutritious food more accessible through the platform.

“This is personal for me. I’ve carried the guilt that Zomato made it easy to eat whatever you craved, but not easy to eat what your body needed,” he said.

Zomato, which started as a restaurant discovery platform and later became one of India’s largest food delivery services, has in recent years diversified into grocery delivery and quick-commerce through Blinkit.