The Noom Kitchen: 100 Healthy, Delicious, Flexible Recipes for Every Day

Based on Noom’s weight-loss model of focusing on lower-calorie, higher-color foods, this new cookbook is the perfect companion for casual cooks interested in not-too-fussy meals that are plant-forward and nutritionally dense. While the introduction goes to great lengths to say that Noom is not about dieting or restriction, these are recipes designed for readers interested in controlling calories; they lean into strategies familiar to most dieters (loading up on water and fiber, choosing frozen bananas over ice cream, filling a plate with vegetables first to leave less room for higher-calorie starches). The recipes are healthy, accessible, and straightforward, making them especially useful for readers who don’t know where to start with healthy eating. While the recipes will work for anyone, they use the same system of color-coding that the app does, making the book feel at times like an advertisement for the system rather than a stand-alone approach to healthy cooking.