About Vitaminico
Food-first nutrition help that finds what your body is most likely missing — without shaming you, scaring you, or selling you a bottle of pills.
What Vitaminico is
Vitaminico is a free, symptom-based vitamin checker — you tell it how you feel and it flags the vitamins to look into.
It's a free iOS app and this companion website. The app is a nutrition self-check: you tell it how you feel, and it maps your symptoms across nine body systems to the nutrients you're most likely running low on — then turns that into a simple, food-first plan. This site publishes the open, educational guides behind that idea, plus a free 2-minute web version of the check.
Who runs this site
This site is built and operated by the same small team that makes the Vitaminico iOS app — the website and the app share one team, one dataset, and one support inbox. The fastest way to reach a human is vitaminico.sup@gmail.com (details on the contact page).
Who “Vita” is
Vita is the nutrition coach you meet across the app and this site. We want to be completely upfront about her: Vita is a transparent AI persona — a brand character, not a real individual. She is not a doctor, not a registered dietitian, and not a stand-in for one. The persona exists to make nutrition feel approachable and kind, never to imply a credential we don't have. Everything written in Vita's voice is AI-assisted, fact-checked by the team against public-health sources, and then reviewed by the registered dietitians below on a rolling basis — reviewed pages carry a dated “Medically reviewed” badge (how that works).
Who reviews our content
Two independent registered dietitians review our nutrition pages on an ongoing basis — real, credentialed clinicians with their own public practices, not stock-photo “experts.”
Christina Manian, MEnv, RDN
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist · Medical reviewer, Vitaminico
Christina Manian, MEnv, RDN — registered dietitian and medical reviewer at Vitaminico, with over a decade of clinical nutrition experience.
Lisa Andrews, MEd, RD, LD
Founder, Sound Bites Nutrition · Medical reviewer, Vitaminico
Lisa Andrews, MEd, RD, LD — registered dietitian, founder of Sound Bites Nutrition, and medical reviewer at Vitaminico with 30+ years in clinical nutrition.
Where our information comes from
We build from primary, public-health nutrition sources — chiefly the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements and the Harvard Nutrition Source — and we link them inline so you can check our work. We stick to mainstream nutrition consensus, present nutrient gaps as “likely” rather than diagnoses, and deliberately avoid prescriptive doses. The full methodology — including how one shared dataset keeps every number on the site consistent — is on our sources page.
Food first, and no upsell
We have nothing in a bottle to sell you, so we have no reason to oversell you. Our whole premise is the opposite of a supplement subscription: before you spend money on pills you may not need, find out what your body is actually short on — for free — and start with food. That's the mission, and it's why the web check and these guides cost nothing and ask for no email to begin.
This is education, not medical advice
Everything on this site is for learning. It is not medical advice, not a diagnosis, and not a substitute for your healthcare provider. If something feels off, the responsible next step is a conversation with a clinician and, where relevant, a blood test — talk to them before changing your diet or supplements.
Want the details on how we research, write, and correct these pages? Read our editorial policy, see how our medical review works, or check where every number comes from.
Vita is Vitaminico's AI nutrition coach — not a human doctor. Educational only, not medical advice or a diagnosis. Talk to your healthcare provider before changing your diet or supplements.