NutriWell

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  The ui for the nutriwell application

Inspiration

The idea for NutriWell Plate came from a deeply personal place. Last year, a close family member was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Suddenly, every trip to the grocery store became a stressful puzzle – reading tiny nutrition labels, Googling ingredients on a phone, and still feeling uncertain about what was actually "healthy" for their specific condition.

What it does

NutriWell aligns perfectly with UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being (specifically Targets 3.4 on reducing NCDs and 3.8 on universal health access).

How we built it

Nutriwell is built using modern technology stack of node js and modern templating engine of ejs

Challenges we ran into

One major learning was real-time API filtering. Open Food Facts doesn't have a native "filter by health condition" endpoint, so I had to:

Fetch generic search results

Parse nutritional data from inconsistent API responses (sometimes units vary)

Apply custom filtering logic based on health goals

Handle missing data gracefully

This taught me resilience and creative problem-solving with imperfect data sources.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I learned about node js and built it from scratch

What we learned

About the food habits and it's impact on health

What's next for NutriWell

Making it more generic for all public uses

Built With

• ejs
• json
• node.js