When Apple Health is connected, Kenso can read the nutrition data logged in another app (MyFitnessPal, Apple's own Health app, or anything else that writes to Apple Health) and use it alongside your training to show your energy balance for the day. Viewing that balance on the Recovery page is a Pro feature.
What's read
Kenso reads dietary energy (calories consumed), protein, carbohydrates, total fat, saturated fat, fiber, sugar, sodium, water, and caffeine. It reads these; it never writes nutrition data of its own back to Apple Health.
Where it shows up
Your day's calories and macros appear on the Recovery page's Energy & Nutrition section, alongside what you burned from workouts and daily activity. Kenso pairs "eaten" against "burned" so you can see whether the day is trending toward a surplus or a deficit. A short history of recent days shows the same eaten/burned split with macros underneath, so you can check yesterday even before today has synced.
How it combines with what you log in Kenso
Nutrition read from Apple Health is separate from anything you might log directly in Kenso: it's not merged or deduplicated against a manual entry, it's another source Kenso displays. If you log meals in a nutrition app that writes to Apple Health, that's the number Kenso shows.
Good to know
- If none of these types show up, confirm they're allowed under iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Kenso. See Apple Health permissions.
- Water and caffeine are the least commonly logged of the set; if your nutrition app doesn't track them, Kenso has nothing to show for those two.
- For the full energy and nutrition picture, including how it feeds your recovery reading, see Energy and nutrition data in Kenso and The Recovery page.