Cronometer exists already and does this a million times better
Didn't know Chronometer so I checked: you have to sign up.
This already makes OP project better for me (subjective of course)
Show HN: Intuitive nutrition information
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Re: Show HN: Intuitive nutrition information
#32Great interface, What source(s) are you getting the data from?
Answer available in a comment from OP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38810773
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why the hell would a person need an app to tell "how processed" a food is? This is the one bit of information that is contextually obvious.
Consider it for how processed a specific brand of food is, rather than a general food. Right now most specifications don’t get more specific than organic, free range, grass fed, vegan, all natural, no preservatives, etc. I suspect the problem would lie in data quality more than deriving insights. For example: a sliced apple is technically processed food, but what is it sprayed with?
Different organic certifications allow different inputs, look up e.g. NASAA https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents... but wow is that a difficult document to apply when shopping!
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why the hell would a person need an app to tell "how processed" a food is? This is the one bit of information that is contextually obvious.
I don't know, it's not really easy for me (as an ignorant American who grew up on junk food) to guess how much processing is in food. I dunno if there's much difference between cow milk, soy milk, oat milk, etc. How is tofu or blueberry yogurt made? What's in a slice of sandwich cheese? Are these fancy organic crackers any different from Ritz? What's in olive oil vs canola oil? Vegan butter vs margarine? Most of the…
You have just asked all the right questions. Now comes the fun part of looking up all the answers :)
Spoiler: Keep it simple and learn to cook.
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#35I’m a big fan of MacroFactor. It’s one of my few subscriptions. It’s the only tracker that works for me. The developers make understanding nutrition as simple as possible without pretending it can be oversimplified.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know, it's not really easy for me (as an ignorant American who grew up on junk food) to guess how much processing is in food. I dunno if there's much difference between cow milk, soy milk, oat milk, etc. How is tofu or blueberry yogurt made? What's in a slice of sandwich cheese? Are these fancy organic crackers any different from Ritz? What's in olive oil vs canola oil? Vegan butter vs margarine? Most of the…
> I dunno if there's much difference between cow milk, soy milk, oat milk Well given the fact that cow milk exists in nature, has been drank by humans for thousands of years, and the other two are trying to be like cow milk, right off the bat, I think a good working hypothesis is that cow milk is less processed than soy and oat milk. They may pasteurize and homogenize it and add some vitamins, but it is fundamentally…
Isn't oat milk just putting oats and water in a blender basically?
Re: Show HN: Intuitive nutrition information
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know, it's not really easy for me (as an ignorant American who grew up on junk food) to guess how much processing is in food. I dunno if there's much difference between cow milk, soy milk, oat milk, etc. How is tofu or blueberry yogurt made? What's in a slice of sandwich cheese? Are these fancy organic crackers any different from Ritz? What's in olive oil vs canola oil? Vegan butter vs margarine? Most of the…
Chris van Tulleken has an excellent book (and talk [1]) on the subject [1] https://youtu.be/5QOTBreQaIk
This is a really phenomenal talk (and he's a great speaker)! Thank you so much for sharing this.
I haven't studied this topic much since the days of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, and I really appreciated Chris's scientifically grounded overview. I think I'm going to get the book and seriously reexamine my eating habits in this new year.
Thank you again for linking this!
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I dunno if there's much difference between cow milk, soy milk, oat milk Well given the fact that cow milk exists in nature, has been drank by humans for thousands of years, and the other two are trying to be like cow milk, right off the bat, I think a good working hypothesis is that cow milk is less processed than soy and oat milk. They may pasteurize and homogenize it and add some vitamins, but it is fundamentally…
Isn't oat milk just putting oats and water in a blender basically?
That's the exact question I had too. I don't know they just add water and soak, or if they use some sort of chemical process to dissolve the oats and isolate some powder that they reconstitute later... etc.
I feel like this should be information available on all labeling. I have no idea what "guar gum" is, and whether that's more processed than "enriched wheat flour", and whatever the hell "natural flavors" are.
Re: Show HN: Intuitive nutrition information
#39Unrelated to the actual product, the kerning in the wordmark needs work.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adding "fiber" in the results (and changing "carbs" to "net carbs") would help. I never understood the motive of highlighting "added sugar" though. Who cares if it's considered "added" or not? I recently was browsing the cranberry juice section at a grocery store, and without going into detail, it was obvious that some brands are gaming the definition of "added". Also, many natural sugar sources have unhealthy levels…
Added sugar doesn't have as many nutrients, and is absorbed by the body much more quickly.
> Added sugar doesn't have as many nutrients
Most overweight people (the audience of a calorie counting app) don't need more nutrients, they need less calories. Besides, fruit is a really poor source of vitamins/minerals in general, so this is a weak ground to stand on.
> [added sugar is] absorbed by the body much more quickly.
You're using circular logic.