WellBite

WellBite: Empowering Healthy Choices in College Life

College is a transformative experience, filled with new challenges and opportunities. However, for many students, the transition to campus life brings unexpected hurdles, particularly in maintaining a healthy diet. The infamous "freshman 15" is more than just a myth – it's a common phenomenon resulting from the sudden shift in eating habits and food choices1.

The Challenge of College Nutrition

When students leave home for college, they're often unprepared for the dietary changes that await them. Campus dining halls offer a dizzying array of options, many of which may be less nutritious than home-cooked meals. Combined with irregular class schedules and the stress of academic life, maintaining a balanced diet becomes a significant challenge2. Moreover, food insecurity is a growing concern on college campuses. Many students struggle to access nutritious meals consistently, which can impact their academic performance and overall well-being3.

Key Features:

1) Personalized Nutrition Goals: Users input their daily calorie and macronutrient targets. 2) Smart Calendar Integration: The app syncs with Google Calendar to identify available meal times. 3) Real-Time Dining Hall Data: We incorporate up-to-date information on meals served across campus dining locations. 4) Automatic Meal Planning: WellBite generates weekly meal plans, creating calendar events for each meal. 5)Detailed Meal Recommendations: Each meal suggestion includes portion sizes and nutritional breakdowns.

Enter WellBite: Your Personal Nutrition Assistant

WellBite is designed to address these challenges head-on. Our app seamlessly integrates with students' Google Calendars and university dining systems to create personalized, nutritionally balanced meal plans that fit their unique schedules and dietary needs.

How WellBite Makes a Difference

By automating the meal planning process, WellBite removes the guesswork from healthy eating. Students no longer need to spend time researching nutritional information or figuring out when and where to eat. The app does it all, ensuring that users can maintain a balanced diet without sacrificing their busy schedules. This approach is particularly beneficial for:

Freshmen adjusting to campus life: Easing the transition to college dining and helping prevent - unwanted weight gain.
Student-athletes: Ensuring proper nutrition to support their training and performance.
Students with dietary restrictions: Easily identifying suitable meal options across campus.
Busy students: Streamlining meal decisions to save time and reduce stress.

Beyond Nutrition Tracking

While many apps focus solely on calorie counting, WellBite goes further by actively planning meals and integrating them into students' daily routines. This proactive approach makes healthy eating a seamless part of college life, rather than an additional task to manage.

Conclusion

WellBite isn't just an app – it's a solution to a widespread problem affecting college students nationwide. By making nutritious eating effortless and accessible, we're empowering students to form healthy habits that will benefit them throughout their college years and beyond. With WellBite, students can focus on their studies and experiences, knowing that their nutritional needs are being met with every meal.

How we built it

We make a python api call to cornell dining to retrieve food items for all dining halls for the week We send a gpt request getting detailed nutrition information for each meal Retrieve information about the user goals Finds out what dining halls are open during the student’s schedules Run complex algorithms to determine the best food choices along with when those times should be added. Recursive grading system that grades each food group in each dining hall Formulates recommendations Adds new events for each meal recommendation to calender