Hey HN! I'm excited to launch FoodAnalyze, a tool that decodes food labels in seconds. Here's why you might find it useful:
Snap a pic of any food label
AI analyzes ingredients instantly
Flags allergens and dietary conflicts
Provides nutritional insights
Suggests healthier alternatives
Free for the next 24 hours - scan as many labels as you want, no strings attached.
Try it out: https://foodanalyze.com
Feedback welcome. Let's make informed food choices together!
Congrats, and it seems to work well. It gives similar ratings to the ratings my grocery store has on the product.
What's the rationale behind the ratings it gives to different categories? Some are obvious, like "Sugar is bad", but other things are less clear, like Graham Flour is rated as a "good" ingredient - why is that? I know citation of sources is hard with AI but it's pretty useful here.
Also, I know this is a hard thing to solve (AI or not...) since opinion on an ingredient being good or bad shifts like the wind and with how much money is pushing it. I remember when coffee was good, then it caused cancer, then heart attacks, but now I think it is good again, or at least it only causes cancer to Californians, or something?
One thing I found was if you give a image of a nutrition label to ChatGPT, it could extract all the nutrition information into a text format like JSON. I was thinking of using that to automate my daily nutrition tracking I do for health reasons.
Congrats! The product looks very promising and I know people who would use this all the time. One feedback I have is to pre-load a demo label so that we can see it inaction without having to find a label.
Thank you very much! Actually before i launch it i had it with 2 demos, but i thought people could abuse it and dry out my credits. I will built a cache system and re-implement it.
Hello, Pierre co-founder of the Open Food Facts NGO. We have a multi-year AI effort you can help with. https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Artificial_Intelligence
We have weekly community meetings, compute to get things rolling, and a swell/quick from Test to Production and Impact loop :-)
Snap a pic of any food label AI analyzes ingredients instantly Flags allergens and dietary conflicts Provides nutritional insights Suggests healthier alternatives
Free for the next 24 hours - scan as many labels as you want, no strings attached. Try it out: https://foodanalyze.com Feedback welcome. Let's make informed food choices together!