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maybe its nitpicking here but the demo shows them asking the model what to cook and its recipie sounds like it wouldn't be very good and also it totally gets the macronutrients wrong. 25g protein for "spaghetti, carrots, peppers, garlic and herbs"?

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Good spaghetti has 15% protein, 15g per 100g.

Even the lowest quality one has 12g/100g.

Pasta should be made of whole durum wheat.. which is 12g/100g. What's this "good" you speak of? There's certainly worse (soft white/red flour with germ/bran removed), but where do we find the +3g?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta

> Each of the hundreds of varieties of wheat cultivated in the United States falls under one of six classes depending on its planting time, harvest, hardiness, color and shape. The protein content of these wheat varieties ranges from 10 to 15 percent; durum wheat is the second highest. One hundred grams of durum wheat has 13.68 grams of protein; soft red winter wheat has 10.35 grams; soft white wheat contains 10.69 grams; hard white wheat has 11.31 grams; and 100 grams of hard red winter wheat has 12.61. The highest protein content occurs in hard red spring wheat, which contains 15.4 grams of protein per 100 grams.

https://www.weekand.com/healthy-living/article/protein-durum...

From your own link:

> Main ingredients: Durum wheat flour, water/eggs

May be going out on a limb here but I think it might be the eggs?

What LLM model are you using to figure that out? The reasoning mode must be frontier level.

/satire, obviously ;)

I know felcetti has a few varieties that exceed that number. ~112g for 16g protein.

The brand that uses khorasan wheat in some versions? Yeah they're a little higher (14.7g/100g). We're stretching the definition of pasta now (it's certainly the highest protein grain you can find)

Yeah I’m not 100% sure, they claim “special durum wheat variety.”

For the price, from a protein perspective, it would be cheaper to get it elsewhere.

https://shopfelicettipasta.com/products/monograno-felicetti-...

They do, but they have to use the standard numbers for durum (like everyone else, even growers - individual berries vary, of course). The only one I can find with these high numbers is the khorasan wheat versions[0].

[0]: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81UbkYz+pZL._SL1500_.jpg

200gr spaghetti do actually contain ~25g protein

And why would i want such mundane questions to be handled by an AI on my phone? That sort of thing doesnt need AI, let alone a local one. Basic google search was answering those questions long ago. My point: phone-sized AI is only useful if it can do things that only AI can do. Can it ingest a document scanned by the phones camera? Can it translate in real time? I dont see how or why i would ever ask it for recipe advice. That need is met elsewhere x10.

If it can give me the recipe without 14 pages of backstory about how Nonna used to make it, it'd be satisfying a real need.

every single recipe blog site builder has a “jump to recipe” button at the top

Paprika does that for any recipe.

I had exactly this use case - in a grocery store in the Alps, no internet, fired up a local LLM on my phone to figure out what to cook and what to buy

Awwwe, cmon. You are thinking about the problem space incorrectly. This is an opportunity to create a unicorn company that develops the first AI tongue.

I personally don't like carrots much, but it doesn't sound bad to me – could definitely use a tomato sauce but that doesn't seem to be an option from the image it was given.

> 25g protein for "spaghetti, carrots, peppers, garlic and herbs"?

Maybe it assumed the pasta was some kind of protein chickpea pasta? =P it definitely seems wrong.

Many people don't realize that regular spaghetti actually is pretty high in protein. All that gluten.

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