Ingredient Detector

The RV. Chocolate Pizza Snack by Chocolate Pizza Co. contains Riboflavin. The two chocolate products beneath it do not.

Inspiration

While nearly all products explicitly list out common allergens such as nuts, soy, and dairy, etc., there are many other obscure allergies that affect the shopping experiences of many.

What it does

The app is meant to be used in a mobile environment, perhaps while you are shopping for a particular product. You can enter in the general name of the product (e.g, chocolate) and an allergen (e.g. riboflavin) and it will point out (color red) the products that contain the allergen in its ingredients that appear when searching for that particular type of product.

How I built it

Proof of concept was quickly done in Python to experiment with the Wegman's API. We decided to finalize it into Javascript as we thought it might be best used as a site (or an app) and it would be easiest to handle the JSON format returned by the API requests.

Challenges I ran into

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

What I learned

This was the first time that either of us had really come into contact with JSON and we were rather puzzled on how to handle the request returns at first, but we now have a better grasp of how to approach foreign data types.

What's next for Ingredient Detector

Ingredient Detector is still in an MVP state. Many improvements can still be done such as allowing for partial queries (not having to list out the parentheses for particular ingredients), optimization, and much more.