Show HN: Digestable Ingredient Database

digestable.co

Recently I’ve become frustrated with the ingredient labeling on packaged foods. The ingredient label is meant to empower consumers, but we eat strange chemicals every day without knowing their origin, function, or safety.

So I wrote Digestable, an ingredient and food additive database. My goal is to make the ingredient label accessible to everyone. Each food additive is explained in short, simple terms- no chemical formulas, and avoiding or explaining jargon.

In addition to the ingredients, I've started a blog series that explains some other aspects of food additives. (e.g. "What is an emulsifier?" "What's in a Red Bull?").

http://digestable.co

API: http://digestable.co/api

Let me know what you think!

Great job! Do you also plan to add common kitchen ingredients(they're also present in packaged food)? e.g., "Egg White". I'd love to contribute to this.

It's definitely on the list, though that's a lot more far reaching. Each of these definitions is custom written- not just scraped from Wikipedia, so it's time consuming. I'd like to get some more traction from this to validate the idea before going much further down that path.

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