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I am working on something like this. www.dietmanager.com. I also tied it in w/ the usda food database web service to break things down even further and tied i

• techiferous 15y ago
  Wow! Don't be shy about promoting this in the comments of my blog, if you'd like. I'm curious, if you don't mind sharing, how does it know what restaurants to recommend to you?
  • d3x 15y ago
    There are 3 meal delivery methods 1. Local Chefs To get this info local chefs can upload their menu's. Their food items are run against the USDA food database then categorized against which dits allow those things and which do not. I currently have support for 455 diets 2. Restaurants Some of this menu info from the restaurants uploading their menu's and some comes from info that I can get from online sources; as with the local chef menu's I use the USDA food database here to know what meals qualify for what diets 3. Recipes This one I have not quite figured out yet. My app does not work like others in that it does not recommend "Places" it instead allows you to search for what food you want and it finds meals based on that food item that also match your dietary preferences (which may or may not be a pre-defined diet)