Inspiration
Eat Neat started when Nathan leaned over to Ethan during the intro presentation and said, “What if you could take a picture of your meal, and it told you its carbon footprint?” We expanded upon the idea soon after, decided on creating our project in Flutter, and set off to coding.
What it does
Eat Neat is a mobile application that allows users to quickly see the carbon footprint of their food. Users can either take a photo of their food, a nutrition label, or just paste a recipe in and receive a grade on how sustainable they're eating. It will provide suggestions to help people be more conscientious in their future food choices. Eat Neat leverages Google Cloud Vision, and Flutter.
Challenges we ran into
Our biggest struggles during development were finding and successfully interacting with many different APIs. We used Google Vision to interpret images and Suggestic to get ingredients for meals. We had hoped to use another API to get detailed environmental impact data for specific foods, but couldn’t find a free source for this information. Instead, we found data and cleaned it into our own csv files.
What's next for Eat Neat
- Monetization through advertizing certain local, sustainable food brands.
- Grow our own datasets to better encompass the food market.
- Use better (paid) APIs to get more accurate footprints of different foods
Built With
- flutter
- google-cloud-vision
- suggestic
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