GoodSoup

the dining hall recipe allergen analysis:"deSoup your recipe"

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Inspiration

Members and friends of the team have many dietary restrictions that the University of Rochester dining team struggles to account for. Therefore, our team had the idea of creating a website that would help the dining team make certain decisions that benefit all groups of students. We want all students to be able to feel like they have options to eat even with extensive allergens and diet plans.

What it does

Our program takes in data given from the dining hall recipes and ingredients on the website and analyzes the percentage of students that can or cannot eat the meals due to allergies or diets. This information is filtered through dropdowns to be specific to one meal.

How we built it

We generated a random database of student's allergies using national percentages. Then used that database to analyze a recipe scraped by the dining hall website. We fed this information through an API on Wix and displayed it using Velo coding.

Challenges we ran into

On the front end side, we ran into challenges of creating a pie chart representing distributions (which required an interaction between Javascript and HTML). We also struggled to connect front-end to back-end because none of us had ever done it before.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning how to use Velo by Wix. Learning Javascript.

What we learned

How to connect front-end to back-end and make a cohesive site.

What's next for GoodSoup

We're hoping that in the future we can analyze recipes for more days, more dining halls, and include a student access to provide this information in a more personalized manner.

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