2.8.0

[strangetom]

• Bugfixes:

  • Recognise T (tablespoon), Ts (tablespoons), t (teaspoon) and ts (teaspoons) as units.
  • Improve labelling of units specified in uppercase (e.g. TSP, TBS).
  • Improve labelling of "dessert spoons" as units.
  • Don't consider "rack" to be a unit in contexts like "racks of lamb".
  • Improve foundation food matching be stripping diacritics and letter-like symbols (e.g. ®©™) from ingredient names.
  • When loading the FDC data, do not discard the lower ends of percentage ranges in descriptions.
  • Fix exceptions raised is a token labelled as UNIT contained " or '.

• Update FDC data to 2026-04-30 release.

• Fully expand ingredient names that are split with a hyphen to indicate a common suffix e.g. "1 cup long- or short-grain rice" is expanded to "1 cup long-grain or short-grain rice".

• Improve accuracy for sentences containing multiple ingredient names.

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This discussion was created from the release 2.8.0.