Mango Health

Inspiration

The inspiration for this project was not knowing what the label on food products actually meant.

What it does

Upload a picture of a food label, and our app will find that product and tell you lots of information about it.

How we built it

It was built using node.js and flask. The website uploads pictures to flask, and flask interacts with apis to find the information to send back

Challenges we ran into

Image recognition was a new concept for us, so we had to figure out how to find the barcode from an image and get information from an api based on that.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were pleasantly surprised by the amount of work we were able to get done in such a short amount of time.

What we learned

We learned a lot about node.js and how to interface node.js with flask. The members of our team all had different strongpoints, so we were all able to learn a little bit more about the other parts of the project.

What's next for Product Wizard

We have seen projects where you are able to scan pictures of food and have artificial intelligence automatically find out that type of food it is, and show you information based on the food. In the next iteration, we may make it possible to not just scan food labels, but also the food itself.