Pantry

On a yearly basis, about 80 billion pounds of food is wasted in the United States. In an attempt to mitigate this, we hope to minimize this by improving how users track their own pantry and ensure minimal waste.

App Features:

  • Input product label, expiration date, category, storage location

  • Estimate lifetime of produce to assign expiration dates

  • Notify user when something is going to expire soon

  • Allow user to set items on shopping list for ease in grocery shopping and find nearby grocery stores

  • Filter by expiration date, category, date purchased, food name

  • Calendar showing each items expiration

  • Search recipes

APIs Used

Google Places: Used to identify grocery stores for the user to select and navigate to. This required the use of both internet and location in order to find stores and localize the user. Google typically charges for this API but using the free trial, there is access for the year.

Vision API: The Google Vision API was used to develop the ability to not type in the food titles but instead be able to use OCR in order to detect the food name. In future improvements, the Vision API can be used for scanning barcodes and reading certain expiration dates.