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AvocadoBro

An essential grocery shopping companion

What it does ❓❓❓

Rising levels of obesity all around the world is resulting in the prevalence of many diseases. Our app,

  • Encourages healthier eating habits
  • Makes consumers more inclined to buy healthier items
  • Reduces the impact of false advertising by companies

How it works 🔧🔨

  • Scrapes the webpage to find product details (Currently only on Amazon)
  • Uses the FDA data base to search for nutrients in product
  • Displays the data in a simple-to-understand and wholesome manner
  • NOTE: Enter API Key into appropiate variables

Challenges we ran into 😵‍💫

  • Communicating with teammates over different timezones
  • Learning JavaSript
  • Making so many features in a limited amount of time

Accomplishments that we're proud of 🏆

  • Made our first chrome extension!!!
  • Learned a bit of JavaScript
  • Managed to learn to use GitHub properly

What we learned 📚

  • We need to use a proper task delegation software 😓
  • Recruit people with a variety of skills (All of us are back-end coders 🥲)

What's next for AvocadoBro

  • Integration with more platforms
  • A wider variety of messages
  • Better Graphics
  • Dashboard with statistics on how many times the user chose healthier food
  • Gamification fetures

Resources

https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/api-guide.html
https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/fdcnal/food-data_central_api/1.0.1
https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/set-handdrawn-avocado-characters-saying-hi-lifting-dumbbells-holding-present-balloon-asking-questions_29082625.htm#fromView=search&page=1&position=15&uuid=01848d99-3de2-4846-aacd-4ded0d394576%22%3EImage

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