About Kalo.Quest

Last updated: September 18, 2026

Kalo.Quest is an AI calorie counter for Android and iPhone, and this website is where its guides live. This page says who publishes them, how they are written, what they are not, and how to tell us when something is wrong.

Who publishes Kalo.Quest

The app and this website are published by SMARTNESS HOME, a company whose registration details, postal address and contact address are listed on the Legal Notice. The same company is named as the developer on the app's Google Play listing.

Articles are signed The Kalo.Quest team. They are written and maintained by the small team that builds the app, not by a guest author, an agency or a contributor paid per article. Nobody on that team holds a medical, nursing or dietetics license, and no article claims otherwise.

How the guides are sourced

Every number in a guide is attributed in the sentence that uses it, to a named organization with a date: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements, USDA FoodData Central for the composition of a food, the National Academies (formerly the Institute of Medicine) for the Dietary Reference Intakes, the FDA for anything printed on a label, or a peer-reviewed paper identified by its PubMed ID. Figures are copied from those pages, not recalled from memory, and the source is linked where the fact appears rather than piled into a bibliography at the end.

When a question has no settled answer, the guide says so and names the trial or the review it is quoting, with its size. When a figure is a convention rather than a finding (the 3,500 calories often quoted per pound of body weight, for instance), the guide says where the convention came from and where it breaks down.

The same rule applies inside the app

Kalo.Quest estimates a daily calorie target with the Mifflin-St Jeor equation, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 1990 (PMID 2305711), and sets protein targets from the International Society of Sports Nutrition position stand on protein and exercise (PMID 28642676). The app carries a Sources & method screen that pairs each number it shows with the reference behind it, and states plainly which of its guardrails, such as the minimum daily calorie floor, are the app's own rule of caution rather than a published recommendation.

How often guides are reviewed

Each guide shows a Published date and, once it has actually been revised, an Updated date. The same two dates feed the page's structured data and the sitemap, so what you read is what a search engine reads. Guides are re-checked against their sources at least once a year, and sooner when a cited page changes: a revised Dietary Guidelines for Americans, a new FDA label rule, an updated CDC page.

What this site is not

These guides are general information about food, calories and tracking. They are not medical advice, they are not reviewed by a physician, a registered dietitian or a pharmacist before publication, and they cannot account for a condition, a medication or a pregnancy. A decision about what you should eat, or how much, belongs with a professional who knows you. The app is not a medical device: it estimates, it does not measure, and the numbers it returns from a photo are estimates you are meant to correct when you can see they are off.

The site is also not a review site. We make the app the guides mention, and we say so in every guide that mentions it. Nothing here is sponsored, and no article is paid for by a brand.

Reporting an error

If you find a mistake, a broken link or a figure that has since moved, write to the address listed on the Legal Notice and name the article and the sentence. A confirmed error is corrected, and the article's Updated date moves with it.