Can You Eat It?

Inspiration

One of our team members is allergic to certain foods, and he always has trouble reading the nutrition labels just to find out if he is allergic to the food item or not. We decided to come up with a solution that will aid him in solving this problem, not only is he the only one but there are many people that encounter this problem on a daily basis.

What it does

It is a barcode scanner app where you first input all the allergens that you have. Then, you proceed to scan a certain product, the app then proceeds to list the ingredients and tells you the allergens the food item has.

How we built it

We used Flutter, which is an open source mobile application development framework created by Google. We used a flutter dependency where it can simultaneously scan a barcode and extract the barcode number. We also used an API that would return a JSON file with the item's information once given a valid barcode number.

Challenges we ran into

We had trouble finding a good API where it would return ingredients in the JSON file; we lost time trying to find the perfect API for our project. We also could not list all the allergens found in food items at the start of the app, so we only displayed the six most common food allergens.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of completing the project. It was able to do exactly what we wanted and we did it in less than 24 hours.

What's next for UNTHACK2019

Redesign the front end of our application, allow users to create an account and lists all their allergens (not only the six we detect currently), and implement a better API that can retrieve more information about an item.

Built With

• dart
• flutter