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Just at a quick glance...

How can a large egg (50 g) contain 147 g choline?

https://www.opennutrition.app/search/eggs-eeG7JQCQipwf

Additionally, on https://www.opennutrition.app/search/brown-lentils-VwKWF7CQq... it says:

> Unlike larger legumes, they require no pre-soaking and cook in 20-30 minutes, making them ideal for soups, stews, and salads

That is not necessarily true. Based on my experience, it does require pre-soaking, otherwise you will have to cook it for a long time, as opposed to red lentils (which is done under 15 minutes, no pre-soaking needed), although red lentils taste more like yellow peas.

In any case, I think this could be really useful, once accurate enough. One could even implement other features on top, such as a calorie tracker and so forth, but that is a huge project on its own.

I wish you luck!

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That is missing a milligram label, thank you for pointing that out. Fix uploading now.

That is what I thought.

BTW when you hover over the ingredients, you just get back the name. Are you guys going to do something with it in the future? Right now there is a visual feedback (the cursor changes), but it is not useful yet. I am not entirely sure what I would have expected, perhaps a description of what it is, and upon clicking on it, it could have information gathered from various sources, like examine.com and what have you, but that would be a huge change on its own, the short description upon mouse hover-over should work for now and may not be a huge change.

The goal, without question, is 100% full coverage on citations for every piece of data that's in the database, even if the citation is an LLM's general reasoning (which for o1-pro is both quite good and often includes study citations).

Right now you'll see that aggregated on some items like this where the reported data is an ensemble of all of the linked resources: https://www.opennutrition.app/search/eggs-eeG7JQCQipwf

Frankly, I just couldn't justify the additional time and monetary expense in doing that if I released this initial version and nobody cared or found it useful. This dataset was also compiled before tools like Claude Citations came out which could make it easier. That is the nature of AI-driven data; I think this is useful now, it is also the worst it will ever be.

I am not complaining by the way, it was more of a feature request, for example when you hover over an ingredient (e.g. "Choline", "Tryptophan", etc.), it may display a somewhat concise description of that ingredient (e.g. "Tryptophan is ..."). It is fine as it is either way, all things considered.

Ah that's a good idea, should add that. Also I appreciate your phrasing of "you guys" when, as a solo developer, if someone thinks your efforts are the product of a larger team, it's always appreciated :)

Yeah I thought more people worked on it, it looks good. :P

Keep it as accurate as possible, and maintainable, and then it will be easy to add larger features. If no one else does, I might add a calorie tracker of some sort, it would be helpful to my mom. It is helpful as it is even now. How difficult would it be to add translations right now? She might look for "tojás" which is "egg" in Hungarian, and I would like her to be able to do that at some point.

I think they meant mg. Eggs are 293/100gr

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