Sunday, September 18, 2011

Nutrition Analyzer

A common problem that many people find themselves in is keeping track of what foods they are eating on a daily basis. With processed foods lining grocery store shelves, it becomes increasingly difficult to determine what exactly goes into the food that you eat.

In attempt to better analyze what goes into one’s diet, I propose a nutrition tracking app which stores all of the nutritional data about the food that one eats. In order to encourage use of the app, we must ensure that entering daily meals is simple and doesn’t require manually entering nutrition facts.

To alleviate this, I propose using techniques such as product search for packaged products, and web search for non-premade recipes in order to automatically estimate nutritional content of meals. Having this nutrition information automatically available will help users determine how different foods contribute to their diet, and how they can change which foods they eat to have a healthy diet.


Coming soon: UI layout proposal, rough timeline proposal.

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