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.

Yea, adjusting the serving size would be nice. Thanks for the feedback!

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?

Thank you! The tools are definitely disjoint, stitching some of them together is a great idea and definitely better usability.

Wow, this is incredibly impressive!

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!

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.

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.

It would be amazing to show how much of say Vitamin A comes from each ingredient, in that progressbar, on hover.

Makes total sense. Thanks for the feedback!