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by umangsh 4y ago
Interesting, why do you think so? There are definitely variations between different authorities (NHS, FDA, etc). FDA RDIs provide a sane default, and users can update nutrition preferences based on their health goals.
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by umangsh 4y ago
Illness, sports, obesity are all valid reasons. I feel healthy eating can be trained like a muscle - tracking for a few weeks/months helps understand food choices better. Too much sodium / low potassium are common in most diets. L
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by umangsh 4y ago
Nutrition information is source from USDA FDC database: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/ , which provides fairly comprehensive coverage for fresh foods and vegetables. Besides produce/meat, the database also provides nutrition
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by umangsh 4y ago
Skipped an info page for famnom, in favor of the user journey gifs + Why? sections on this post. Were they helpful? I agree an info or onboarding section on famnom itself would be nice to have, thanks for the feedback.
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by umangsh 4y ago
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
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Show HN: Famnom – Nutrition tracker and meal planner for families(famnom.com)
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by umangsh 4y ago
Interesting, I haven't come across this dataset before. What do you like about it? How does it compare to USDA or OpenFoodFacts if you've used either of them?
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by umangsh 4y ago
Foundation foods data includes few hundred foods and absolutely sufficient for meal tracking if you cook at home and measure portions. Another cool thing about the data set is that USDA publishes individual samples from across the country u
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by umangsh 4y ago
https://www.famnom.com/search/?q=boiled+potatoes . Famnom is a nutrition tracking and meal planning service I built, after trying a few others that didn't fit my needs. The goal is to highlight macro and micro nutr
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by umangsh 4y ago
OpenFoodFacts offers variety of options to consume their data: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data . From my experience, their coverage for packaged foods from various countries is amazing, though it can be fairly noisy. In
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by umangsh 4y ago
Coming from a django/python background, flutter/dart was easier to understand than react/js. It has been fun to work with, esp. with Vscode and extensions, on a side project. Flutter is a mature option for mobile development,
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by umangsh 4y ago
Deploy using heroku CLI: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git#deploy-your-code Unfortunately, git lfs isn't supported for CLI pushes, haven't found a way that works yet.