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Re: Show HN: Famnom – Nutrition tracker and meal planner for families

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I've thought about making something like this in the past. I've used the "Nutrients" iOS app for tracking nutrition, but not in the way it's meant to be used. Maybe my usage patterns could help you writing your app. I tend to use the app to get a pulse on the nutrient density of the foods I consume (or feed my daughter). I would make simple meals, and plug them in, and then try to get all the nutrient bars filled up.…

I would suggest looking into meat based dishes, including organ meats, eggs, bone/meat broths and such. You'll find it much easier to 'fill' all the nutrition bars if you use that.

I would also suggest avoiding leafy vegetables in general, since there are a lot of defensive chemicals in them that are not very good for you, especially concentrated blended versions of them. You tend to want to eat plants in states that they want to be eaten in, such as fruit flesh. Plants don't want their leaves and seeds to be eaten, thus the large amount of protective chemicals in them to discourage that from happening. The ideal situation for plants is you eat a fruit when it's ripe, swallow the seed whole, and pass the seed in your stool somewhere else in a stool fertilizer bed on the ground somewhere. This means low sugar fruits that we call vegetables like cucumbers and tomatoes are also ok.

Also fish and liquid oils tend to go rancid fairly fast. Solid oils tend to stay fresh longer. If you want more fish in your diet, eating actual fresh wild fish vs a fish oil significantly healthier.

Re: Show HN: Famnom – Nutrition tracker and meal planner for families

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As others are asking, where did you get all the nutrional data from? How can we know its accurate. To be honest, the pasta and sauce I eat here is different nutritional content than in other countries. Its all just an approximation at best. At worst, wildly inaccurate

Looks like it's from the USDA's FoodData data.

Re: Show HN: Famnom – Nutrition tracker and meal planner for families

#33

As others are asking, where did you get all the nutrional data from? How can we know its accurate. To be honest, the pasta and sauce I eat here is different nutritional content than in other countries. Its all just an approximation at best. At worst, wildly inaccurate

Looks like there is the USDA food database in there.

https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/

Re: Show HN: Famnom – Nutrition tracker and meal planner for families

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Hi everyone, I’m the author of Famnom. I built it after trying various nutrition tracking apps but didn’t find anything that fit my needs. What is it? Famnom is an easy-to-use macro and micro-nutrient tracker, and meal planner. Choose from a database of foods or add your own, create recipes and log meals. Set custom nutrition goals or use FDA RDIs for macros - calories, fats, proteins, carbs and micro-nutrients - Mag…

I would also put an example account or dashboard so people can play with it to understand what it does before going through sign up work. Another thing is the USDA nutrition info for raw ingredients might be actually a bit out of date, with a lot of the measurements taken long time ago. The actual micronutrient content of raw food can vary greatly depending on what kind of soil it was planted in, how unripe it was be…

Your point about nutritional variability with location and time is valid. USDA periodically refreshes nutritional information for a variety of foods (https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/log.html) and provides location data for collected food samples. For tracking purposes, averages are a workable approximation imo.

Re: Show HN: Famnom – Nutrition tracker and meal planner for families

#38

Can I ask where you got the nutritional data from, how can I trust it?

Data is sourced from USDA, and it's updated every six months. Whole hog ingestion happens here: https://github.com/umangsh/famnom/blob/main/nutrition_tracke...

Re: Show HN: Famnom – Nutrition tracker and meal planner for families

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Hi everyone, I’m the author of Famnom. I built it after trying various nutrition tracking apps but didn’t find anything that fit my needs. What is it? Famnom is an easy-to-use macro and micro-nutrient tracker, and meal planner. Choose from a database of foods or add your own, create recipes and log meals. Set custom nutrition goals or use FDA RDIs for macros - calories, fats, proteins, carbs and micro-nutrients - Mag…

I built kcal[0] after a similar search. The focus is primarily on macros and ultimately I kind of lost steam on developing further (though we still use it to great success). A part of why lost interest is that I didn’t like PHP + Laravel as much as Python + Django. Anyway I see you have the Famnom code on GH but apparently not with an OSS license. Are you planning to seek contributions with a friendly license in the…

Absolutely open to contributions :). Didn't pay attention to licensing yet, will look at options.
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