Show HN: Discover New Foods High in Nutrients

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I have been pretty familiar with a food dataset I have for my enterprise app for a while, and thought it would be neat to have a query engine based on nutrient.

Standard stuff, hosted on Rails, EC2, RDS. The only funky thing is I had to make extensive use of memcached as the core queries were getting unwieldy and took lots of time.

This is neat! But I would definitely use typical servings instead of the standard 100g servings. No one is going to have the money to eat 100g of oysters to get the 262% RDA of zinc, so it would be better to have it in the context of how people actually consume these foods.

Actually everything is supposed to be based off one typical serving, so if anything is off, it is wrong and I need to fix it :). If you take a look, the gram weights are different for each item.

I checked and it says 6 oysters weights 84 grams. How many oysters are eaten in a typical setting?

Data source?

USDA SR-28

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964

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