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Here is my post from last year which didn’t get much attention on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33507260

It analyzes how much sugar is in the food based on nutrition facts data scraped from Walmart. It also shows relation between amount of sugar and rating.

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This is incredibly useful! Is it possible to make this into a simple (single page) shopping list? Where I type my shopping list, product recommends substitutes with lower sugar — and gives me distribution (histogram) of main ingredients for my shopping list.

That would be life changing.

This is definitely possible. I’m not sure if we’re going to have time for this as we’re occupied by work on Scraping Fish but we shared the code for scraping nutrition facts data from Walmart on github: https://github.com/pawelkobojek/scrapingfish-blog-projects/t.... Feel free to take it and build such app/website on top of it.

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