SafeBytes

Most of us have friends and family who struggle with food allergies. We decided to create a website to help students with allergies find dining hall meals that fit their dietary needs. With our website, a student can specify results by choosing their preferred dining hall, risk level, or ingredient to see the types of food offered. Our site creates an easy, stress-free way for students to learn what they can and can't order from a dining hall. ChatGPT helped us to create a mock dataset of Virginia Tech's dining hall menu options, and then we converted it to JSON format. Our website uses this script to create a database of every menu item and to compute an allergen score for each item based on its ingredients. Though the site does accomplish our entire goal, with more time, we hope to implement the real risk factors of the meals offered by dining halls, as well as include additional types of allergies and food sensitivities.