TeddyBite · app in the making · Nigeria

Three cards a day: what to cook, sip and blend today.

Every morning TeddyBite suggests one simple dish, one tea or coffee and one smoothie — matched to your kitchen and to what you want to achieve. Nigerian meals and drinks are built in, not bolted on. You log nothing and search for nothing. One quiet notification a day, a button for “not today”, and it all works without data.

Five ingredients at most, 0 minutes of logging
Works offline — the whole month fits in one small download
One notification a day — silent unless you say otherwise

Join the waitlist See what a day looks like

Two emails, no more: a short confirmation now, one message when the app is ready.

A day with TeddyBite

Five ingredients at most. 0 minutes of logging.

The device below is a clickable model of the app. Pick a kitchen and a goal, switch tabs, press “Not today” — the real app will behave exactly like this.

07:30

Today

12 days in

Pause. Your streak stays at 12.

Example cards with rounded values. The model shows three dishes per cuisine to browse — the app holds 120, so a dish returns after four months at the earliest. Every nutrient figure comes from one checked source per cuisine.

Today

Three cards, nothing else. Plate, cup, glass — each with minutes, ingredient count and calories. A tap opens the ingredient list, four steps and the shortcut for days without time. The ring fills as you view or tick off a card. “Not today” hides everything, and your streak stays put.

Your kitchen

Your goal (optional)

The three cards

Plate, cup, glass: three cards, six marks, one source per nutrient.

Each card takes minutes to read and minutes to make. What is on it is deliberately brief — and every number says where it comes from.

≤ 25 minutes · ≤ 8 ingredients

Plate

One simple dish with ingredients, amounts and at most six steps. Plus calories, protein, fibre, salt and added sugar — rounded, with a source. A swap hint if an ingredient is missing or the market price is up.

≤ 5 minutes

Cup

One tea or coffee, a different one every day: water temperature, steeping time, amount, a caffeine-free variant. No health promise about the drink — just the preparation that tastes good.

≤ 3 minutes

Glass

One smoothie or local drink with all ingredients and the order they go into the blender. For every ingredient, one sentence on what it contributes — in plain, provable words — no miracles. Whole fruit with fibre, never juice as the base.

Six marks on every plate card

All four guidelines — Nigeria, USA, China, Europe — say the same six things. That is why they sit on every card as symbols.

Vegetables inat every meal

Low saltunder 5 g a day, seasoning cubes counted

Low sugaradded sugar shown

Little ultra-processedtinned and frozen are expressly allowed

Beans, nutsregularly on the plate

Water1.5 to 1.7 litres a day

Notification

One notification a day. Silent, unless you say otherwise.

Most apps ask for permission on first launch and then make noise. TeddyBite drops its notification quietly into your notification list — no prompt, no sound, no screen lighting up. Sound is a switch you flip, not us.

This is what it looks like

TeddyBite

07:30 Quiet: only in the notification list, no chime, no light.

Sound quiet

One notification a day, never two

At 7:30, or whenever you choose. On weekends, none if you prefer.

The notification tells you what is inside

“Today: efo riro 25 min · ginger tea · kunu aya” — you know without opening.

“Not today” without penalty

One button hides the day. Your streak stays put. Nothing is lost, and no message nags you.

Four kitchens

Four kitchens, four guidelines: you choose, TeddyBite adapts.

Each kitchen brings its own dishes, drinks, units and the country’s official dietary guideline. You can switch any time — and if you like, Sunday brings an excursion into another kitchen.

Nigeria

Nigerian guideline: vegetables and fruit at every meal, little salt, sugar and seasoning cubes, seasonal fruit in plenty.

Efo riro with ofada rice
Ginger tea with lime
Kunu aya from tigernut

USA

Guideline 2025–2030: more protein, at most 10 g added sugar per meal, avoid highly processed foods.

Chicken bowl with quinoa
Cold brew from the fridge
Berry protein smoothie

Chinese kitchen

Guideline 2022: 300 to 500 g of vegetables a day, twelve different foods daily, never skip breakfast.

Congee with egg
Jasmine tea at 80 °C
Soy milk with sesame and date

Europe

2024 recommendation for Germany, Austria, Switzerland: pulses every week, a handful of nuts a day, less meat.

Lentil stew
Filter coffee at 92 °C
Berry and oat smoothie

Chinese kitchen means the cuisine, not the distribution. TeddyBite is for everyone who loves this food — in Lagos, London or Singapore. Distribution in mainland China is not planned at present.

What TeddyBite is not

Not a calorie counter. So a few things are missing on purpose.

Counter apps are fine if you want to log every meal. Studies name exactly that logging as the most common reason people quit. TeddyBite turns it around: we suggest, you decide.

	Counter app	TeddyBite
Logging	every meal, every day	never — a “cooked” tick is optional
Searching a database	yes, thousands of entries	no, three cards
Notifications	several a day, with sound	one, quiet
Account	required	none needed
Data	needs a connection	works offline, small download
Skipping a day	streak breaks	streak stays
Exact control over every calorie	yes, that is its purpose	no — if you want precise numbers, this is the wrong app

Evidence, not claims

Ten numbers, checked at the source.

The numbers TeddyBite is built on. Each with origin and year; all read at the original source on 4 September 2026.

98 %call taste important when eating — health comes second at 90 %, and among 14- to 29-year-olds it drops to 83 %. That is why every card leads with the taste.German Federal Ministry food report 2025, forsa, about 1,000 respondents aged 14+ (Germany, representative)

74 %want midweek recipes with five ingredients at most.Two Ears One Mouth for AHDB, August 2024, 1,001 respondents (UK)

68 %say that deciding what to eat is their biggest daily hurdle.Factor / Wakefield Research, 10–16 Dec 2024, 1,000 representative adults (USA). NOTE: the commissioning party is a ready-meal delivery service (a HelloFresh brand) — it has an interest in the result.

4.7×stronger than health is the pull of taste on what 18- to 28-year-olds eat.Tastewise, January 2026

25–30 %of Nigerian adults live with high blood pressure; diet, salt and seasoning cubes are named drivers.Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2025; CAPPA, 2026

60 %of Americans want to spend less than 30 minutes on dinner — busy Lagos is no different.YouGov, convenience report 2025

> 50 %of adults in China are overweight; the state has run a three-year weight campaign since 2024.National Health Commission, 2025

88 %of Europeans have taken a food supplement — TeddyBite explains them but does not sell them.Ipsos for Food Supplements Europe, 2022

2001is the year of Nigeria’s food-based dietary guideline, published in English, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo — TeddyBite follows it.FAO country register

70 %of users abandon health apps within 100 days. That is the hardest number against this project — we name it anyway.Kidman et al., Journal of Medical Internet Research 2024, review of 18 studies with 525,824 participants

Figures from industry sources are orders of magnitude, not promises. Studies behind a paywall were confirmed through the Europe PMC database.

See all 33 sources with publisher, sample and evidence level ›

Questions

What people ask us.

What does TeddyBite cost?

The core stays free: the three cards, “Not today”, ten days of history, favourites, one kitchen and one goal.

A Pro subscription is planned — with a year view, unlimited favourites and a shopping list. The price is not fixed yet and will be set fairly for Nigeria, not copied from Europe. Payment goes through Apple or Google, like any app.

Do I need an account?

No. Cards, history, favourites and goals stay on your phone. An account exists only if you want your favourites on a second phone — and you can delete it inside the app.

Does it work without data?

Yes. A kitchen is one small download of about a month of cards. After that, TeddyBite needs no connection: no data, no loading circle in the morning. Updates come when you are on Wi-Fi, if you want them.

Where do the nutrition values come from?

From one verified source per kitchen: for Nigeria the Nigerian Food Composition Table of 2017, for the USA the Department of Agriculture’s database, for Europe Open Food Facts, for Chinese food the Chinese food composition table. We round to ten calories and write “approx.”, because every kitchen cooks differently from the table.

Is this medical advice?

No. TeddyBite is an everyday helper for healthy adults, not a medical device. If you are ill, pregnant, allergic or on medication, ask your doctor. Iron and vitamin D are only supplemented with a blood test — the app says so on every card that mentions them.

Why no logging?

Because it is the most common reason people quit nutrition apps. And because the big databases with user entries can be off by several hundred calories a day — and most of them do not know jollof from ofada. TeddyBite needs neither: it suggests, you cook — or not.

Which languages and kitchens are there?

At launch English and German, then Simplified Chinese. Kitchens: Nigeria, USA, China, Europe. You choose language and kitchen separately. Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo are not in the first version — tell us on the waitlist if you want them.

The app is planned for Android and iPhone.

When does the app come out?

We will name a date once it is certain. The waitlist is the honest route: one email when the time comes, nothing else.

Waitlist

A confirmation now, one message when TeddyBite is ready.

Sign up if you want to try the app. We send a confirmation email straight away — only your click in it makes the sign-up valid. That way nobody can sign up someone else’s address.