A little app to make life easier
WhatTheCarb is a nutrition analysis application designed to help users quickly and easily get detailed nutrition information for their recipes. This app leverages the Edamam API to provide comprehensive nutritional data, making it especially useful for individuals with specific dietary needs, such as those with diabetes.
To get started with WhatTheCarb, follow these steps:
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/SnowY4you/WhatTheCarb.git cd WhatTheCarb - Install the required packages:
pip install -r requirements.txt-
Create an API at Edamam:
- Visit Edamam and create an account to get your API credentials.
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Create a
.envfile:touch .env
Add the following lines to the
.envfile:EDAMAM_APP_ID="your_app_id" EDAMAM_APP_KEY="your_app_key"
To run the application, simply execute the following command:
python app.pySubmit the full text of any recipe or ingredient list. Edamam will extract the full nutrition and ingredient data from the text. No more need to spend hours entering your recipes line by line. The nutrition analysis takes less than a second!
Our Natural Language Processing engine allows for the extraction of food named entities from text. We also allow combined entity extraction with food database search. Once a text is submitted and entities are extracted, our database is searched for additional food matches to the extracted entities.
Edamam returns detailed information for each ingredient line for the Recipe Analysis and for each text string for the Text Analysis. You can get information for the entire recipe as a whole or broken down automatically for each ingredient.
For each food (flour, eggs, etc.), Edamam returns data for calories, fats, carbohydrates, protein, cholesterol, sodium, etc. for a total of 28 macro and micronutrients.
All food nutrient data is enriched with diet, allergy, and health labeling, as calculated by Edamam based on the food's ingredients. Vegan, Paleo, Gluten-Free, Low-Sodium, and Dairy-Free are some of the 90+ claims generated automatically.
I came up with the idea for WhatTheCarb because my 12-year-old son has had type 1 diabetes since he was 4 years old. This app aims to make life easier for people like my son by providing quick and accurate nutritional information for their meals.
Here are some screenshots of the WhatTheCarb application:
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- Info about Tkinter commands: Tkinter Documentation
- Info about the Nutrition Analysis API: Edamam Nutrition Analysis API
Thank you for using WhatTheCarb! If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to reach out.
