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Automatic detection of caffeine, coffee in the product. #2184

Open Slawek234 opened 5 years ago

Slawek234 commented 5 years ago

What

aleene commented 5 years ago

Why? what do you look for?

Slawek234 commented 5 years ago

Because many people are sensitive to caffeine: pregnant women, people with hypertension problems. In my opinion, there is no additional information that the product contains caffeine.

zigouras commented 5 years ago

I agree that this would be a very useful feature. Personally, I am often looking to see if there is caffeine in the product. This is very important.

VaiTon commented 5 years ago

Where should we insert this kind of warning?

stephanegigandet commented 5 years ago

I would like to understand the need and possible implementation a bit better. Would we just flag products that have "coffee" (with the exception of decaffeinated coffee) or "caffeine" in the ingredients? Is there more to it? Are there harmless looking products that contain caffeine? (that are not products that obviously contain coffee)

VaiTon commented 2 years ago

I would like to understand the need and possible implementation a bit better. Would we just flag products that have "coffee" (with the exception of decaffeinated coffee) or "caffeine" in the ingredients? Is there more to it? Are there harmless looking products that contain caffeine? (that are not products that obviously contain coffee)

We should flag every product that has a lot of caffeine or that is coffee. The warning should be something like what we do for alcohol but a little bit less concerning, like:

"This product contains a lot of caffeine. Consume with moderation."