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Food is an important source of life for humans to survive. There is a lot of food in this world, but basically there are 2 sources of types of food that are processed in everyday life, namely animal and vegetable. Food has a close relationship with diseases suffered by humans. If the food consumed is not appropriate, it will cause previous congenital diseases and become more serious diseases or relapse. Cholesterol disease is the most serious disease experienced by humans. Constant consumption of unhealthy foods causes the fat content to accumulate in the body. This will result in high levels of cholesterol in the body so that it can trigger ongoing diseases such as coronary heart disease. The purpose of this research is to help people with cholesterol in determining a healthy food menu that can be consumed by patients with cholesterol. Therefore a nutritionist is needed who can make healthy food menu recommendations for people with cholesterol. This study uses the forward chaining method in drawing conclusions based on expert knowledge. Based on research conducted by the Riskesdas agency (Basic Health Research) in 2018, it showed that there were 35.9% of cholesterol sufferers with a population age > 15 years, of which 35.9% were male sufferers and 39.6% female sufferers. (Kardi et al., 2020). The results of this study are an Android-based application that can provide recommendations and food planning for people with cholesterol. This application can be used by patients with cholesterol anywhere at any time, patients with cholesterol do not need to meet directly with a nutritionist, simply access the application from each patient's android.