Food alert

Food alert is a hackathon project developed by Yi Hsiao, Robert Zhang, Andy Chien, and Angela Ho together at 2018 MedHacks. Devpost project is available at https://devpost.com/software/food-alert-20gn58.

Prerequisite

Server

• Python 3

iOS app

• COCOAPODS

Installation

git clone https://github.com/hsiaoyi0504/food_alert
cd food_alert

Flask server

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python build.py  # build the data that will be used by server

iOS app dependencies

cd app
pod install

Usage

Start the server

FLASK_APP=server/main.py flask run

Notes

• Keynote report of this project is included in food_alert_presentation.key.
• A list of all 101 categories of food of Food-101 dataset is available here.

Server side

• Provide an api that can handle GET request from client in following format: url_root/food/<food_name>

Acknowledgement

• iOS app is based on SeeFood.
• Food recall data is from OpenFDA.