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I know a Swiss startup that's working on something similar!

I'd be curious to see how it distinguishes mashed potato with and without a metric buttload of butter though. On pure reflectance alone?

And if you make scrambled eggs like a French chef (use the eggs as a delivery vehicle for butter), the calorie range might also vary by something like 400%.

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It will probably have large error but still be 1000 times better than the intuition of a hungry human.

But what about when the hungry human tries to trick the computer by cooking plain looking food that packs tons of calories but appears healthy on the food log

Sounds stupid but it's exactly the kind of fat logic my unconscious hungry brain will use.

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