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by braja 1355 days ago
This is cool. Can you make this work for more complex recipes, e.g., with restaurants? Perhaps import recipes in a standard format to automate? I can see this being a differentiator for catering companies that serve employee lunches (e.g., Forkable).
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Hey braja14 - indeed. Our API already works with recipes. In fact, you don't even have to enter it in a standard format, or provide us with the ingredients. We tap into a recipe database with 3 million recipes and use machine learning algorithms to automatically find the ingredients of the recipe you want to know the impact of. As you mentioned, we do have a catering company that uses our API. In fact, we're in discussions with a major food delivery app to integrate our API and pilot this in London. They will use it to rate restaurants or recipes as climate-friendly, allowing you to choose better dishes. If you check out the recipe search, do let us know what you think about it. Thanks for your feedback!!