Exclusive: Samsung Health getting Galaxy AI feature that scans meals and estimates calories

Samsung is working on a Galaxy AI feature for Samsung Health that could make tracking your food intake a lot easier. Called Scan meal, the feature uses AI to identify food from photos and automatically estimate how many calories you're consuming.

We've discovered the feature inside Samsung Health, and it could be one of the new additions coming with One UI 9.5.

With Scan meal, users can take a picture of their food — or use an existing picture — and let Galaxy AI analyze it. The feature can identify food names, ingredients, portion sizes, and estimated calorie counts within seconds.

This could make logging meals in Samsung Health much more convenient, especially for people who regularly track what they eat but don't want to manually search for food items and enter their portions.

Samsung does warn that Scan meal's accuracy can vary depending on factors such as the angle and lighting of the photo. The calorie estimates aren't to be treated as completely accurate, and the feature isn't intended to replace professional nutritional advice.

Samsung Health explicitly states that Scan meal is currently in beta. More importantly, it warns that the terms of the feature could change in the future, including the possibility of it becoming a paid feature.

When you scan a meal, the photo is sent to servers for processing. The image and analysis results are then saved in Samsung Health to manage your meal records until you delete them or withdraw your consent.

Scan meal is likely to arrive as part of One UI 9.5 and could be a useful addition to Samsung Health, particularly for users who want to keep track of their calorie intake without spending too much time manually logging every meal.