I wonder if anyone made an app to scan ingredients on packages and instantly rate the product for quality / toxicity etc 🤔
Seems like it would be super easy to do
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There is an app that let's you scan a barcode and retrieve the ingredients, if Trump hasn't already shut it down. I believe it was an FDA project. If you had another DB correlating ingredients with the various characteristics you're looking for, it should be relatively simple to perform relative queries to arrive at the data set you want.
No need for databases. You should be able to scan the ingredient text and just see the results
That data still needs to live somewhere. If not a relational database, than something like redis.
No. Not really. You can just ask a model to identify shit ingredients. You could even customize what you want to avoid or have more of
The FDA is a criminal organization and yes it will be shit down by our hero Trump.
Not exactly the same thing but similar. This app reads the ingredients and flags allergens.
You mean https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ ? I met them at #FOSDEM and told them to Nostrify it, gave our Nostr Flyer. Anyhow, its open data so you should be able to use it.
No, something more flexible. No search required. Scan and get data.
You mean the device will ocr the data from the package, OCR it and translate it to normie human readable info? I saw a demo of something like that 8 years ago with Google glass augmented reality layover. Forgot the name, I think it was from Germany.
Just ChatGPT image to desired output
In EU we got Toxfox and Codecheck. Very helpful.
Surely there will be, without a doubt with the accompaniment of AI, the process would not be very complicated. - Your proposal is interesting for those who have doubts about the product.
Already exists .. ChatGPT
quality/toxicity according to who?
"Barcode Scanner" on F-Droid only looks up nutrition "facts" from world.openfoodfactd.org
Yuka, a French app: https://yuka.io/en/
My wife use something like that to scan soap, shampoo and cosmetics, but it's paid app.
Yuka ✌️
You would need a law that forces to list everything on the package.
I think EU might be close, but UK or USA can basically list only half so the ratings would be useless.
But it could highlight some really bad shit. Like sugar.
This is pretty much done for you in the US. You basically just exclude anything in a package, unfortunately. I'm being a bit dramatic, but barely. Many of the good products I have found over the years have slowly slipped into the abyss. It's gotten so bad that's it easier to just make my own stuff (tomato sauce, ranch, etc)
our cleaning lady has a shitty version of this app that basically just says everything causes cancer then she panics 😂
Get Yuka from your app store
nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac 👆Yuka is pretty good.
Only issue we’ve found is it doesn’t have supplements and “nutritional” items such as protein drinks etc
But we use it whenever we are considering something new