CES 2026: Garmin had the nerve to launch a food-tracking feature in Las Vegas

Garmin’s large announcement for CES 2026 wasn’t different fittingness watch. Instead, it revealed it is adding food (and calorie) search to its Connect app. It combines AI image nickname pinch a rich | nutrient database, truthful you tin show your calorie and nutrient intake without leaving nan app — and moreover log immoderate nutrient done its watches.

The nutrient search useful likewise to existing apps for illustration MyFitnessPal, Noom, LifeSum and galore others. Still, Garmin hopes to make its companion app nan champion spot for search nutrition without having to time off its app – and tying it into your different fittingness goals.

This makes consciousness successful a fewer ways. If you already usage Garmin to way your exercise, nan app tin supply a much meticulous estimate of your calorie expenditure. It’ll personalize it based connected height, weight and gender, which you’ve apt already entered connected your Garmin profile. It tin moreover connection calorie and macronutrient recommendations tailored to your fittingness goals.

However, it unveiled nan news astatine CES 2026, a tech convention held successful Las Vegas, which seemed for illustration a troll. Las Vegas, wherever you’re ne'er acold from a three-foot margarita, a BLT Bloody Mary aliases fried chickenhearted and waffles. In fact, Garmin selected 1 of my favourite restaurants, Yardbird, to showcase its caller nutrition-tracking feature. Yardbird does unthinkable chickenhearted and waffles. It’s perchance nan worst imaginable spot to commencement monitoring my calorie intake, sloppy of nan 15,000-odd steps I return each time here.

In summation to nan nutrient database, you tin usage nan camera to log food. With AI-powered image recognition, nan Connect app makes a mostly bully conjecture astatine what you’re eating. During nan media briefing lunch, nan app swiftly recognized grilled salmon, maize and respective different vegetables. The quantities were not remotely accurate, however: Five kernels of maize do not equate to 1 cup. You tin manually set nan serving size, but unfortunately, it can’t make a much informed estimate astatine this point. A Garmin spokesperson noted that nan institution is looking into really to amended accuracy here. (It’s a communal rumor for immoderate app aliases work attempting to usage AI image discovery to analyse meals.) It was, however, speedy and easy.

You tin besides create customized repast entries (with nan correct constituent quantities), making it easier to way your regular meal habits aliases midday java order. Better still, you tin show nutrition and calorie intake connected compatible Garmin watches. You tin moreover log your favourite (and precocious logged foods from your wrist without needing to usage your phone. Voice commands besides activity connected compatible Garmin wearables.

The characteristic is now disposable to Garmin Connect+ subscribers, who salary $6.99 per month. This besides includes Active Intelligence, which already offers AI-powered insights into your workouts. It tin now facet successful your nutrition.

Subscribers will besides beryllium capable to get daily, weekly, monthly and moreover yearly reports connected calorie targets (and what you ended up consuming). But let’s commencement monitoring that erstwhile I’ve near Vegas, please.