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  • meal planning apps vs. templates -- less features with templates i.e. meal tracking, logging dining

    Sandy
    4 replies
    with apps like cronometer, eat this much, and meal lime, it's hard to say whether meal planning templates will become obsolete unless there's a way to scrape food databases for accurate nutrition facts, like how their apps do. the nutrition facts on the premade foods in their database aren't always on point. for example, chocolate has A TON of zinc, but it doesn't show up in my favorite chocolate products. if i logged the ingredients manually for those products, though, i would see this data on zinc and other minerals. the ai isn't very "i." maybe it needs to pull from different sources to calculate the nutrition so people have the most accurate data to know they're meeting or not meeting their targets. how could one accomplish this?

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    Shajedul Karim
    hey Sandy, interesting dilemma! we're dancing between simplicity and accuracy here. a template could be elevated by integrating a tiny bot that fetches precise nutrition info. not an "all-knowing" AI, but a humble helper focusing on nailing those nutritional facts. imagine just typing "chocolate" and it gently offers the missing zinc data right there. it’s about crafting something that feels light yet surprisingly insightful for those who use it. stay curious, Karim
    Sandy
    @shajedulkarim_ web scraping definitely can be inaccurate and imperfect at times. thanks for commenting πŸ™
    Sandy
    @shajedulkarim_ but i look forward to the day that i get not only the zinc facts on chocolate... but also the serotonin and dopamine info πŸ₯²
    Shajedul Karim
    @sandymakesplans 😁✌🏻