Yum AI is an AI-powered cooking and nutrition app designed to make everyday meal planning more personal, intelligent, and practical.

The platform brings together a database of more than 10 million recipes with pantry scanning, personalized nutrition, AI recommendations, guided cooking, and meal planning. Today, the product serves more than 200,000 users across iOS and Android, has raised $500K in funding, and reached a $4M valuation.

Challenge

Most recipe apps start with one question: what do you want to cook?

Yum AI starts with something more useful: what can you actually eat, what do you already have, and what fits your lifestyle?

The challenge was bringing an enormous recipe database together with dietary preferences, allergens, health considerations, pantry data, nutrition information, and AI personalization without making the experience feel complicated.

The product also needed to support a large and growing consumer audience across iOS and Android while keeping recommendations fast, relevant, and easy to use.

Solution

We built Yum AI as a cross-platform mobile product using React Native, supported by a scalable backend infrastructure designed to handle large recipe datasets, personalization, AI workloads, user preferences, and growing traffic.

Users can scan their pantry and discover real recipes based on the ingredients they already have. The Personal AI Chef recommends meals based on cravings, dietary preferences, nutrition goals, allergens, and more than 200 chronic health conditions.

The platform also provides insights across 150+ nutrients and 40 allergens, personalized weekly meal recommendations, AI-generated taste profiles, ingredient verification, recipe imports, pantry management, and step-by-step cooking experiences.

Yum AI also supports more than 40 languages and includes customizable themes, allowing the experience to adapt to different users, regions, and preferences.

The result is a consumer AI product that combines food discovery, nutrition intelligence, personalization, and guided cooking into one experience used by more than 200,000 people.