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Extracting ingredients from steps

Rapid account: Jackread
jackread
8 years ago

I’m interested in using the food API, you seem to have a lot of really useful endpoints and I could certainly make use of it.

One of the things that I need, and is missing from your API is this…

I’d like to extract the ingredients mentioned in a section of text e.g. I would send my ingredients list and a string e.g. “Start by marinating the chicken. Cut into 1 inch chunks and rub with the salt and lemon. Add the rest of the tikka ingredients, mix well, cover and refrigerate for 6-8 hours.” and could get back a list of the ingredients from the list that were mentioned in the text.

I realize this is not an easy thing to do… I think it should be possible, using NLP to classify words as ingredients then match them to ingredient names/groups etc. Before I embark on doing this for my self, I’d be interested to know if its something you’d consider adding to your API?

Rapid account: Jackread
jackread Commented 8 years ago

Fantastic. I’ll test this and let you know how it works 😃

Rapid account: Spoonacular
spoonacular Commented 8 years ago

Hey Jack, great idea, just added that for you https://market.mashape.com/spoonacular/recipe-food-nutrition#analyze-recipe-instructions (might not work perfectly but it’s a start).

Let me know if that helps.

Best,
David

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