A web app for collecting and easy editing for recipes with macronutrient information.
All ingredients were taken from:
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 20xx. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release . Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page, http://www.ars.usda.gov/nutrientdata
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 20xx. USDA Branded Food Products Database . Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page, http://ndb.nal.usda.gov
The file containing all the information was downloaded from the USDA website and is located at ingredients/ABBREV.txt. populate_ingredients.py was used to populate a database so as to avoid querying the USDA website directly.
- [Miguel Grinberg] for writing a comprehensive tutorial for Flask. A lot of the source code is inspired by the structure of
microblog.