No feedback after searching for ingredient not in list of ingredient

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Team's Response

Output is correct as of U.G., meaning all found ingredients are printed. Program is working as expected.

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Team chose [response.Rejected]

• [x] I disagree

Reason for disagreement: Although it works as expected from the UG, this is a serious problem for users. The application is based around the idea of the user adding all the available ingredients that they have in the fridge/that are available to them, and getting a recipe that can made around said ingredients. If the user has an ingredient not in the given list of ingredient that he would like to make use of, he would definitely keep trying to add it to the list of ingredients. Before that, he would have to first see if the ingredient is in the list of given ingredients using ingredients search . However, if it is not inside the list of given ingredients, there is no feedback, and the user might keep trying to search for the ingredient since he does not know if it is actually due to the application not having that ingredient stored, or whether he spelled the name of the ingredient wrongly. This can be extremely frustrating in some instances, such as when the user type ingredients search Chicken and nothing comes out, when there are clearly many types of chicken stored in the list of given ingredients. In the screenshot below, the user might just be trying to add chicken feet, and have to keep trying just to find the correct name in the list of given ingredients.

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