Introducing Amassia: An AI Nutrition Guide for African Food, in Your Own Language

Today we launched Amassia, an AI nutrition guide that does something no tool built for African food has done before: it holds a real conversation about what you eat and what you are working toward, then turns that conversation into a personal path — guidance grounded in the foods of Africa and its diaspora, and a direct connection to a verified nutrition professional who shares your language and region.

Ask Amassia the most ordinary, most consequential health question of all — What should I eat? — and it does not hand back a generic chart. It asks what matters to you. It understands whether you are living with a health condition or working to prevent one. And, with your permission, it remembers what you have shared, so the professional you are matched with can pick up exactly where you left off — no forms, no repeating yourself, no starting over.

African food as the reference point, not the exception

For most of the last decade, nutrition tools asked Africans to translate their own food into someone else's database. PushNcare built the opposite: a structured knowledge base of more than 65,000 African dishes and edibles across the continent's culinary regions, reviewed by experts, that treats African food as the reference point rather than the exception. Amassia is how anyone, in a single conversation, gets to use it.

"Most health technology starts after something has gone wrong," said Gilbert Mbeh, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of PushNcare. "Amassia starts at the plate — with a question, in your own language, about food you already love. It listens, it understands what you are working toward, and it connects you to the right expert without you ever having to repeat yourself. We built the trusted foundation for African nutrition. Amassia is how everyone gets to use it."

A bridge to professionals, not a replacement for them

Amassia is a bridge to nutrition professionals — not a replacement for them. PushNcare's network of more than 200 verified nutrition professionals across 18 African countries gains a front door that meets people at the moment of need and hands each one to a qualified professional who shares their language, region, and cultural context — with the conversation already understood, so the relationship starts on the first message, not the first form.

Built for prevention

Non-communicable diseases — hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and related conditions — are rising across Africa, and diet is among the most significant and most modifiable factors behind them. By meeting people at the everyday decision — what to put on the plate today — rather than after a diagnosis, and by making guidance personal, conversational, and culturally faithful, Amassia is designed to make prevention something millions can actually act on, in the foods and languages of their own lives.

Try Amassia today

Amassia is available now at pushncare.com. Start a conversation about the food you already love, and let it guide you toward a verified professional who understands it too.

Amassia and PushNcare provide general nutrition information and guidance. They do not diagnose, treat, or replace care from a qualified health professional. For personal care, PushNcare connects members with verified nutrition professionals.