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by jentulman 4147 days ago
This is generally quite nice. To add to some of the other feedback, I felt it could do with more verbose help text and more importantly for my brief play with it, more focus bringing basic staples to the top of results for food search.

I tried to add just bacon and it took rewatching the demo video and some guesswork to figure out searching for 'bacon raw' would get to basic bacon. Trying just 'bacon' or 'pork' only gets lots of babyfood and soup related answers in the generated dropdown.

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The search definitely needs work. The food database is from the USDA so the descriptions are wordy. For what its worth, when you're searching you can use an exclamation mark to negate a term. For instance "!baby !cere banana" gets me all banana related foods that don't have "baby" or "cere" in them (which for some reason is a lot).