fitday.comI tried out www.fitday.com today which is about the best UI I've seen for entering what foods you ate in a given day and then having it give you stats on how many calories you consumed, what the fat/protein/carb breakdown is, etc. Still, the UI could use some work. Ideally, it would be cool if you could enter what you ate into a text area and have a system smart enough to parse it, match the foods, etc. One potential way to implement this would be to use the language I have thought about using to implement a domain-specific search engine. In other words, you should be able to say:"2x white bread" "2x bread, white" "2 slices of white bread" etc. ... and the software should be able to accept either one and match it against the same food. To use a complete example, the software should be able to take a day's food log such as the following and do its calculations without any additional clicking:
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