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by jv22222 2446 days ago
Nice work.

Since you've got this far I'll tell you about an idea I've had in the back of my mind for years:

1) Slurp in as many recipes as possible from the internet.

2) Create a way to build a Food Framework by having a whitelist, and/or black list of ingredients.

So, for example, a great way to eat if you have diabetes is plant based low fat.

In this case you could create that Food Framework by whitelisting all vegetables and grains.

Or let's say you wanted a paleo diet, then you could blacklist grains.

Or vegan, blacklist meat, dairy, eggs, etc.

Or no peanuts (for allergies etc)

3) Save your Food Framework and then the site only shows recipes based on that framework.

I like the idea because

1) It can appeal to lots of niche groups who don't have great options for something like that.

2) If you stick to the right food framework for you it could help you get healthy, loose weight, etc.

Anyway, great work. Features you have there are great already.

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@swsieber @matthuggins @x86mitch (and any one else)

If you sign up to https://nugget.one/ideas (free account) you'll be able to get instant access to this nugget:

Nugget #72: Tool to design custom nutrition plans

https://nugget.one/nugget/72

That has quite a lot of research and information about all of this.

Sounds like the app I'm building now. :)
Some brand ideas I had.

Either if you (x86mitch / matthuggins) are welcome to them if of interest:

Nutrition Works

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iyvai1jbredx6n9/Screenshot%202019-...

Nutrition Engine

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hchcz4vciik1w28/Screenshot%202019-...

Awesome! If you want to chat feel free to reach out to me. There are some really good api's out there to help speed up the process.
I'm also working on something like that for myself (because of a colicky baby and hearing that low FODMAP diets help). Right now I have basic schema.org recipe ingestion working.

I'd be interested in chatting about it, but you dont have any contact info listed in your profile.

Also working on some NLP and ML for parsing recipes at bite.ai so would love to chat as well.

if you're using schema.org there's a nice filtered data dump from the common crawl available here:

http://webdatacommons.org/structureddata/2018-12/stats/schem...

Oh man. This is such a great resource. I wish I could give you multiple upvotes. Thanks for sharing!