FoodAnalyze: Instant Food Label Analysis – Free for 24 Hours

by Cranot • 2 years ago

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Cranot5• 2 years ago

Hey HN! I'm excited to launch FoodAnalyze, a tool that decodes food labels in seconds. Here's why you might find it useful:

Snap a pic of any food label AI analyzes ingredients instantly Flags allergens and dietary conflicts Provides nutritional insights Suggests healthier alternatives

Free for the next 24 hours - scan as many labels as you want, no strings attached. Try it out: https://foodanalyze.com Feedback welcome. Let's make informed food choices together!

supportengineer• 2 years ago

Very cool, it works great!

Cranot5• 2 years ago

Its a very early version, glad you enjoyed!

rozap• 2 years ago

Congrats, and it seems to work well. It gives similar ratings to the ratings my grocery store has on the product.

What's the rationale behind the ratings it gives to different categories? Some are obvious, like "Sugar is bad", but other things are less clear, like Graham Flour is rated as a "good" ingredient - why is that? I know citation of sources is hard with AI but it's pretty useful here.

Also, I know this is a hard thing to solve (AI or not...) since opinion on an ingredient being good or bad shifts like the wind and with how much money is pushing it. I remember when coffee was good, then it caused cancer, then heart attacks, but now I think it is good again, or at least it only causes cancer to Californians, or something?

pkaye2• 2 years ago

California does maintain a list of prop 65 chemicals so you can compare against that list.

https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/proposition-65-list

higgins• 2 years ago

What happens after 24 hours?

Cranot5• 2 years ago

Actually nothing there always be daily free scans, maybe with a limit.

thecatwentup• 2 years ago

Congrats! The product looks very promising and I know people who would use this all the time. One feedback I have is to pre-load a demo label so that we can see it inaction without having to find a label.

Cranot5• 2 years ago

Thank you very much! Actually before i launch it i had it with 2 demos, but i thought people could abuse it and dry out my credits. I will built a cache system and re-implement it.

flaburgan• 2 years ago

How is it different from OpenFoodFacts?

throwaway87483• 2 years ago

Or the USDA food database that American taxpayers have so graciously given us?

https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/

add-sub-mul-div• 2 years ago

I think the only differentiation is that it happens to be this particular person's attempt to cash in on the AI slop era as opposed to someone else's.

teolemon• 2 years ago

Hello, Pierre co-founder of the Open Food Facts NGO. We have a multi-year AI effort you can help with. https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Artificial_Intelligence We have weekly community meetings, compute to get things rolling, and a swell/quick from Test to Production and Impact loop :-)

senectus1• 2 years ago

thiss owuld be an excellent candidate for combining with the Monash university's FODMAP app https://monashfodmap.com/ibs-central/i-have-ibs/get-the-app/

trying to find foods that dont trigger IBS etc is such hard work..

pkaye2• 2 years ago

One thing I found was if you give a image of a nutrition label to ChatGPT, it could extract all the nutrition information into a text format like JSON. I was thinking of using that to automate my daily nutrition tracking I do for health reasons.

Cranot5• 2 years ago

We do it in a more sophisticated way.

G3nko0• 2 years ago

I do it already in https://foodintake.space app

FoodAnalyze: Instant Food Label Analysis – Free for 24 Hours

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