Boilermake Hackathon 2025 Project

Healthy eating can be hard—especially for people who avoid vegetables altogether. Many of my friends fall into this category, which inspired me to build an app that evaluates how “green” a meal is by analyzing a photo of the plate. The goal is to make healthy eating more visual, measurable, and fun.

Green Eats is a mobile application that tracks the percentage of green foods on your plate—an intuitive and accessible way to estimate how healthy each meal is.

Key features include:

• 📷 Camera-based analysis using photos of meals
• 📊 Daily logging to track eating habits over time

• React Native

• Python + Flask

Setting up the backend was the biggest challenge. Due to time constraints and unfamiliarity with backend configuration, I wasn’t able to fully connect it by the submission deadline.

• Designed and implemented a functional React Native frontend
• Developed a clear concept for a health-focused food tracking app
• Learned how to structure a mobile app project from scratch

• The basic folder structure and workflow of a React Native project
• The importance of early backend setup and testing

If I continue developing Green Eats, I plan to:

• Integrate Discord logging so users can share progress and stay motivated together
• Improve food recognition accuracy and expand beyond just green foods
• Fully deploy and connect the backend for real-time analysis