Hi, I'm Ely

I have eaten plant based for over 15 years. It started with the ethics of our food: documentaries, my own reading, and years of volunteering with animal welfare groups, talking with hundreds of people about how food is produced.

Those conversations kept coming back to health: protein, iron, B12. So I studied nutrition on my own, learning from Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Dr. Neal Barnard and others, and in 2019 earned the Plant Based Nutrition Certificate from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies (eCornell).

Then I learned to work with data and code. The first idea was simple: pick ingredients, build a recipe, and see exactly what nutrients it gives you, from the USDA database. That became this site.

What we are building

• Recipes: the dishes people love, from every country, made with plants (the ones I cook).
• Ingredients: what is in each plant food, per 100 g.
• Tools: the recipe builder, the calorie calculator and more on the way.
• The experts: who the leading plant based doctors and researchers are, and what they teach.

Have an idea, a recipe or a correction? Write to us. How the pages are made is on how we make this site.

Ely