FoodSaver

Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protect the planet.

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Inspiration

About 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions is produced due to wastage of food. This cause global warming, harm environment, wastage of food (which can be feed to poor), wastage of resources, and wastage of money.

What it does

FoodSaver is a web application that keep track of the food in your house, or restaurant and keep warning you to use the product before it got expire and got waste. It provide a platform for everyone to keep track of the food items. The web application is available in Multiple Languages. It creates a list of edible items present. When the food item is about expire the web app will give alerts to the user to use food item before it got expire.

How we built it

For frontend I have used React Js. For developing backend I have used Node Js and Express JS. For styling we have used CSS and Styled Components.

Challenges we ran into

The major challenge was to make a recipe finder, which shows result by food item, so we use the Edaman API for that.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Reduces green house emission(as the user don't waste food anymore).
  • Easy to keep track of the food.
  • Save money wasted on food.
  • Saves resources use for producing food.
  • Save food.

What we learned

How to fetch API, how to get response as json files and working with Backend.

What's next for FoodSaver

  • An upload feature where the user can upload their grocery receipt and feed items, and add the product along with the details automatically.
  • Building an React Native Application for better experience.
  • Making a Cross-platform application for the project.
  • Adding alert feature to warn user to use product that is going to expire soon.

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