I had been vegetarian for a number of years, realized quite late that I had been deficient in Vitamin B12. Also from the Journal of Nutrition (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21865568/), many folks don't get hit their micronutrient goals without fortification and supplements. Most nutrition calculators focuses on macronutrients or losing weight. I wanted to create a tool that focuses on micronutrients and eating healthy.
This and the other tools on the site are fantastic! I think it would be useful to fuse a couple of the tools you have into one. For example, in the nutritional deficiency tool, I am told that I am lacking niacin. I have to leave the context of that tool to look up which foods contain niacin. However, you already made another tool that does just this. How about displaying a list of the top foods containing the deficiencies, with a link to the full results?
This is neat: I would make it work by letting the user half or quarter the recipes. Most recipes online are for families and will give skewed results when parsing them.
The problem I have is I lived abroad and eat all kinds of foreign foods which are hard to track. Lot's of stuff I eat I only know the local name and don't even know how to translate into English.
Makes food tracking very difficult when I eat out and don't eat at home. I use myfitnesspal simply because they have the biggest database.
IMO any completion to MFP has to some how build up a massive database which is accurate. Tough nut to crack.
That makes sense. The site currently uses USDA's open nutritional database, but it could be supplemented. They do a good job of covering for 95% of American foods, but definitely lacks globally. The nice perks about the USDA dataset is that it is more detailed than MFP - many phytonutrients (carotenoids) and omegas are also tracked. Hopefully I can add those in the next version.
Is there somewhere to report bugs and feedback? It's scraped https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/seitan-black-bean-stir-f... quite well but a few items like "seitanpieces" and "cornflour" did not get recognised. Also, increasing the weight of the seitan is not updating the nutritional values.
I love bugs! I log on the backend all the ingredients or portions I can't parse with a high degree of certainty. Every night, there's a cron job that uses some beefier NLP algorithms to see if we can do better, and recategorizes the new terms as a recognized entity after it passes some threshold. It should be able to learn over time.
I was debating over whether or not to fold in that logic on first encounter, but it's slow and I worry it might affect usability.
Thank you for letting me know about these and your feedback!
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 30.7 ms ] threadMakes food tracking very difficult when I eat out and don't eat at home. I use myfitnesspal simply because they have the biggest database.
IMO any completion to MFP has to some how build up a massive database which is accurate. Tough nut to crack.
Is there somewhere to report bugs and feedback? It's scraped https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/seitan-black-bean-stir-f... quite well but a few items like "seitanpieces" and "cornflour" did not get recognised. Also, increasing the weight of the seitan is not updating the nutritional values.
I was debating over whether or not to fold in that logic on first encounter, but it's slow and I worry it might affect usability.
Thank you for letting me know about these and your feedback!