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KnowYourMacros

Turn recipe videos or multilingual speech into nutrition and macros.

Built
April–May 2026

Why I made it

A recipe video rarely tells me whether the dish fits my goals, and ordinary food logging asks people, especially my mother, to translate a natural meal into a rigid database form.

What it became

The app accepted YouTube, Instagram and TikTok recipes, extracted their ingredients and estimated nutrition. A second flow let someone describe a meal naturally in Telugu, English, Hindi or a mixture, then review the transcript, ingredients and portions before saving it.

What happened

Later versions grounded ingredient estimates against USDA FoodData Central and the Indian Food Composition Tables and exposed the match provenance. The complete workflow worked; whether it could become an effortless daily habit remained unanswered.