Assemble a plate from food cards so every macro lands inside its target band and you cover enough food groups, calories alone won't cut it.
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How to play
You're dealt a hand of food cards and a daily nutrient target. Add and remove cards until calories, protein, carbs, and fat each sit inside their band and you've hit the required food-group variety, then serve.
Tap food cards to add or remove them from the plate.
Watch the macro readouts, each must land within its tolerance band.
Cover at least the required number of distinct food groups.
Serve once everything's in range; faster balanced plates score a time bonus.
Controls
Desktop: click food cards to toggle them; click Serve plate, Clear, and the mode/difficulty buttons.
Phone & tablet: tap cards and buttons, built for touch.
Game modes
Daily (shared deal) and Practice, across Easy, Medium, and Hard.
Tips & strategy
Balance protein and fat early, since those bands are easy to miss while chasing calories.
Reach for cards from new food groups to satisfy variety without overshooting a macro.
What you'll learn
Plate Up teaches macronutrient balance and dietary variety through a quick deck-building puzzle.
For parents & teachers: balanced nutrition, as a quick puzzle.
Origins
Building a hand of food cards to land calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat inside their bands is macronutrient balancing.
Requiring all four simultaneously is the original constraint.
That is what makes it a puzzle rather than arithmetic. The macronutrients are not independent — foods carry several at once, so correcting a protein shortfall moves fat and calories too, which is why diets stated as single targets are easy to satisfy and useless.
About Plate Up
Plate Up teaches macronutrient balance and dietary variety through a quick deck-building puzzle. It is an original, free browser game built in-house.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
