Conditions · PCOS
PCOS nutrition, built around you.
PCOS is not one body. The plan refuses to guess about yours.
PCOS is a spectrum, not a single presentation. Insulin resistance, cycle irregularity, and the symptoms that come with each vary widely from one woman to the next, which is exactly why a single generic “PCOS diet” handed to everyone tends to fit almost no one particularly well.
Plait starts from what is actually true of your body rather than the average PCOS profile. Carbohydrate distribution and meal sequencing, which of the international guideline's recommendations to lean on, adjust based on what you tell the app, not a template.
What Plait tracks.
- Blood-sugar-steady meal choices, sequenced rather than just calorie-counted
- Glucose, cycle, weight and carbs, tracked together so the plan can adjust as the picture changes
Questions that change real numbers.
App behaviour, not a quiz for its own sake: each answer below moves an actual target in your plan.
Had your glucose checked? If it came back fine, your carbs stay at the general split. Until the plan knows, it keeps the steadier lower-carb split rather than guessing.
What the guidance is built on.
Plait's PCOS targets, particularly carbohydrate distribution and meal sequencing, are checked against the 2023 International Evidence-based Guideline for PCOS, developed jointly with ESHRE and ASRM, plus a Cochrane review on lifestyle changes in PCOS.
- Teede HJ, et al. 2023 International Evidence-based Guideline for PCOS (developed with ESHRE and ASRM), 2023.
- Lim SS, et al. Lifestyle changes in women with PCOS. Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2019.
- Grant P. Spearmint tea anti-androgen effects in PCOS. Phytother Res, 2010 (small RCT, preliminary).
Naming these bodies is not an endorsement by them of Plait. See the full, dated citation list on our science page.
Related reading.
The Personalisation Gap: Why Average Nutrition Advice Fails Women
Most nutrition apps take your age, height and weight and return the plan they return everyone. Why that gap is the actual problem, and what closing it looks like.
PCOS and Carbs: Why 'Just Eat Less Sugar' Misses the Point
PCOS carbohydrate advice is usually reduced to one sentence. What the actual guideline covers, and why sequencing and distribution matter more than a flat cut.
Living with more than one?
You are not asked to pick which one counts. The plan works around the whole picture.
Plait provides nutrition guidance and is not a substitute for medical care.