Culinary Nutrition Analyst

About the role

This role will play a critical part in helping CookUnity become a more nutrition-forward, science-backed food business by supporting nutrition standards, meal classification, ingredient audits, nutrient optimization initiatives, legal claims documentation, and chef-facing nutrition tools. This position is ideal for a Nutritionist/Dietitian who is passionate about food science , nutrition standards , ingredient transparency , nutrient optimization , and translating nutrition knowledge into practical tools for culinary teams. You enjoy being part of a team and understand that the impact of your work will help improve CookUnity's meals, ingredients, nutrition communication, and overall eater experience.

Responsibilities

• Nutrition Standards and Meal Classification Support :
• Support the development, documentation, and implementation of CookUnity's Core Line Nutrition Standards and meal classification framework.
• Assist in classifying active Core Line meals according to the new nutrition standards and process-level classification logic.
• Review recipe and nutrition data to identify whether meals meet defined nutritional criteria.
• Help maintain clear records of meal classification status, gaps, exceptions, and follow-up actions.
• Collaborate with Culinary, Nutrition, Legal, Menu, and Data teams to ensure standards are applied consistently.
• Nutrient Optimization Tools and Playbook Support :
• Support updates to CookUnity's Nutrition Standards + Legal Claims Playbook .
• Assist in organizing chef-facing nutrition guidelines, claiming criteria, nutrient optimization tips, and practical recipe improvement recommendations.
• Help update internal tools, including CookUnity's internal and proprietary AI tools, with the latest nutrition standards, classification logic, and nutrient-optimization guidance.
• Translate nutrition science into clear, actionable recommendations for chefs and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain documentation to ensure nutrition guidance is accurate, consistent, and easy to use.
• Ingredient Specification Screening and Standardization :
• Screen priority ingredient specifications against CookUnity's Nutrient Optimization criteria .
• Identify gaps between current ingredient specifications and desired nutrition or ingredient integrity standards.
• Support the standardization of priority ingredients by reviewing nutrition facts, ingredient labels, additives, claims, and specification documents.
• Help organize findings and recommendations for ingredient upgrades, reformulations, or vendor follow-ups.
• Maintain ingredient tracking files and dashboards to monitor progress across priority ingredient specs.
• Recipe, Cooking Method, and Nutrient-Retention Research Support :
• Assist in preparing documentation for MVP kitchen pilots comparing current versus optimized cooking methods.
• Help collect, organize, and analyze pilot results, including nutritional impact, operational feasibility, and chef feedback.
• Support lab test documentation for cooking-method replacements, including nutrient-retention impact and recommendation summaries.
• Help prepare scale, iterate, or reject recommendations based on pilot and lab validation results.
• Eater-Facing Nutrition Education Support :
• Support the creation of eater-facing education related to nutrient preservation, including reheating, storage, and leftovers best practices.
• Help draft clear, science-backed educational content for customer communication channels such as CRM, FAQs, website content, flyers, or other agreed formats.
• Ensure consumer-facing content is accurate, simple, brand-aligned, and legally appropriate.
• Collaborate with Culinary Nutrition, Marketing, CRM, Legal, and Customer Experience teams as needed.
• Legal Claims and Nutrition Communication Audits :
• Help keep CookUnity's Nutrition Standards + Legal Claims Playbook updated.
• Support the development of claim standards checklists for nutrition, ingredient, and health-related communications.
• Assist in auditing high-impact communication channels such as meal descriptions, website content, meal names, CRM, PR materials, and other customer-facing assets.
• Document potential claim risks, inconsistencies, or improvement opportunities.
• Support preparation of reports with find

Benefits

Additional Information

About CookUnity: Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with it, it has lost the power to nourish, inspire, and connect us. So in 2018, CookUnity was founded as the first-of-its-kind platform that connects the world with the source of truly great food: chefs. Today, CookUnity delivers 50 million meals a year from the industry's best chefs to homes all over the country. Fresh. Ready-to-eat. And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul. Unwilling to stop there, CookUnity is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace focused on our singular mission: empower Chefs to nourish the world. If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one, you've found the right job posting.

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