NANA (Not Another Nutrition App)

NANA (Not Another Nutrition App) enables users to get a quick nutritional analysis on a recipe as a starting point for more involved tracking of their intake. Because the process starts with a URL (no typing in ingredients!), it lowers the activation energy for investigating and recording meal details. It allows users to flag ingredients/volumes that might be in their "red zone" -- or note items that will take more investigation. Users quickly start where they are, adjusting serving size or changing key components (like salt). Why do it all by hand if NANA can help?

Implemented Features:

• Recipe cleaning and parsing from three supported websites
• Nutritional Analysis per ingredient via USDA Nutrient DB
• Clean, clear display of recipe and nutritional totals via customized nutrition label

Future Features:

• Custom User Profiles for Nutrient Tracking
• Highlighting of "over limit" and missing nutrients
• Recipe Saving & Meal Planning
• Support for Additional Websites
• Ingredient Substitution and dynamic re-analysis

Technologies

Frontend / Framework

JavaScript,  underscore.js
Bootstrap
CSS/HTML
Nutritionix jQuery Label plug-in (www.nutritionix.com)

Flask, JinJa2, SQLAlchemy

Backend

Python
Beautiful Soup, nltk & associated packages, Pattern

Postgresql, pg_trgm, fuzzystrmatch

References & Aknowledgements

USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 27 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2014. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page

Nutritionx jQuery Label plug-in - with customizations(www.nutritionix.com)

Thank you Bob, Katie, Denise, and Hackbright.