Eat or not to eat app
I’m wondering if someone would use an app that will tell you if you can eat a certain food or not.
Let’s say I’m on a keto diet, I saw a random banana on my table and unsure if I can eat it. I just open the app and search for banana. The app will tell me if I can eat it. Profile, diet and health conditions will be asked prior.
Same applies if you’re diabetic, with high blood pressure or gout.
I did the 'Slow Carb' diet described in The 4-hour Body book by Tim Ferris. I did the diet for 7 weeks and lost 7kg so I can safely say the diet works (at least in the sense that it was very effective for me).
Anyway, during the diet I would Google the allowed food list quite often, especially to figure out what recipes I could make with them. There are many websites dedicated to this kind of thing, so yeah, there's definitely a market there.
However, the diet is designed to be fairly low maintenance. Once you work out what things you can eat it's actually pretty easy to stick to the same set of meals for many weeks. Having an app might be useful for someone just getting started but after a while you just get used to it.
As @c0nsilience already mentioned, I'd be very careful if you're going to start targeting medical issues. For example, my wife is "gluten free" and it's not enough to simply say that she can or can't eat mayonnaise. Some brands of mayo is okay and others aren't. This data could be tricky to get right.
Oh and for anyone wondering why I stopped the diet. The truth is, I only did it because I read the book and I thought it was super interesting. Doing the diet was more like a self experiment to see if it actually works. Now I simply consider it a tool in the toolbox whenever I want to loose weight.
Better yet, take a picture/objection recognition; if it's a food you cannot eat, based on whatever system you currently ascribe to, there is an impulse sent to the occipital lobe that completely obscures the ability for the end user to even see that item....kind of like a self-censorship blur.
On a more realistic note....... 😉 Great idea! But, you'd have to be very, very careful once you begin walking the 'medical'advice' line. We are all bags of chemical reactions and what might be adverse to some, will not be for others, and vice versa. We also live in a litigious society. That combo can make for a very bad day.