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Food Database / Ingredient search

d8czdx2kcx
d8czdx2kcx Posts: 4 Member
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I know other people have mentioned it (and you have a need to make money as a company) but having access to barcode scanner as a free user would be extremely helpful and probably cut down on the multiple incorrect and duplicated food entries helping to resolve issues with the current crowdsourced food database and reduce the need for the suggestion below.

It would be useful when creating meals and recipes and searching for ingredients/foods if we could filter what we're searching for i.e. due to the mass duplications and errors in the Food database it would be useful to filter for only foods/ingredients in 'my foods' to more easily find and add the foods I've created and separate the need to scroll through other database entries, other suggestions for filters (as I've seen in other users suggestions) would be for things like country specific foods.
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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,841 Member
    d8czdx2kcx wrote: »
    I know other people have mentioned it (and you have a need to make money as a company) but having access to barcode scanner as a free user would be extremely helpful and probably cut down on the multiple incorrect and duplicated food entries helping to resolve issues with the current crowdsourced food database and reduce the need for the suggestion below.

    Highly unlikely: the barcode scanner was free for a very long time (it's only been 18 months I think, since becoming premium) and even then there was a very cluttered database with incorrect and duplicate entries.

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