Nutrition-Optimization

Welcome to this Food and nutrition planning optimization tool!

The goal is to create a tool to provide individuals with a recommended diet based on their personal health needs.

The model currently used is the the DOcplex linear optimization solver, and it has been built on IBM Watson Studio.

Instructions

• This project is run in IBM Watson Studio - using decision optimization

More Stuff

• Food Files Data are currently being gathered from New Zealand Food composition Data Composing of 2767 food items.
• The daily dietary requirements are currently being gathered from Nutrient Reference Values for Australia and New Zealand

Things to add

• (Currently being worked on) Add more food data, using an API connection the USDA FoodData Central https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/api-key-signup.html
• A better error message if the solution is not feasible i.e. the food options will not meet the desired nutritional requirements.
• Add a web scraper for the costs of each food item or a REST api connection.
• Add an option to input your gender / age and activity level to ensure the nutritional requirements are set to the individual.