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About Vegranu

Principles and description of Vegranu

Nutrition principles:

  • High Fiber, Micronutrients & Antioxidants per Calorie (quantity and variety)
  • Unsaturated over Saturated fats
  • Potassium over Sodium
  • Magnesium & Calcium over Phosphorus & Sulfur
  • Sustainable plant-based with zero animals and cholesterol

Vegranu App#

Along side the content in the website, you can find multiple tools in the app and website:

Recipes#

Auxiliary Ingredients & Preparations

Foods and auxiliary ingredients that are part of a whole meal. High level instructions that allow for flexibility along with specific variants with particular measures.

  • Change serving sizes
  • Change measurements: weight vs volume, kilograms vs pounds
  • Nutritional tables
  • Swaps and allergies, globally configured for the user
  • Favorites and add to lists
  • Tags for foods: Sweet, Savory, Sandwich, Soup, Snack, Countries
  • Create or edit a new recipe or meal and share
  • Import recipe from url

Nutrients, Food Search & FoodDB

  • Search for foods and ingredients with multiple filters and orders

    • micronutrients
    • macronutrients
    • healthfulness
    • belongs to a dietary pattern
  • Swaps or similar foods

  • Create or edit a new food or ingredient and share

  • Use url for filtering so that the sharing could be performed

  • Search ingredients/preparations by nutrient per serving/gram/volume

  • Search foods with nutritional tables and suggest swaps or alternatives

  • Pre-made lists/filters and columns

    • Order by nutrient/antioxidant-dense
    • Healthfulness column
    • Belongs to a dietary pattern
    • Resource Use for foods

Cooking Classes, Videos & Tools

  • Batters, Granola & Cookies
    • Pancakes, Waffles & Crepes
  • Auxiliary Proteins
  • Milks, Yogurts & Ferments
  • Cooking Methods & Tools
    • Salt, Acid, Fat, Umami, Heat, Texture
  • Sauces, Dressings & Spreads
  • Bread & Desserts
  • Snacks & Drinks
  • Salads, Bowls & Rices
  • Bakes, Pots & Soups
  • Preparing Meals: Ingredients vs Ready Meals
    • Weekend "Warrior" Cook
  • Salubrity
  • Risk Factors & Guidelines
  • Nutrition Labels & Tracking Tools
  • Food Externalities

Meal Planner#

Generator

  • Allergy, food restrictions and preferences
  • Cooking tools restrictions
  • Time restrictions
  • Handle nutrient intake
  • Minimize number of ingredients and price (editable)
  • Reuse ingredients or preparations or multiple meals
  • Swap for store bought foods instead of making your own from recipes
  • Randomness

Pantry/Inventory

  • From a set of meals/recipes or a generated meal plan, propose ingredients to buy and in what quantities
  • Suggest preparations from pantry
  • Ability to reduce or eliminate shopping list items based on pantry/inventory
  • Share shopping lists with others
  • Create a custom virtual pantry
  • Share pantry and inventory access with others
  • Cumulative price/cost per day/week
    • Suggest swaps

Delivery

  • Position
  • Schedule
  • Freezed
  • Fresh

Scientific Content#

Myths, Doubts, Preoccupations & Recommendations

  • Set of main talking points around health and food
  • Common myths and doubts that may be preventing you from improving
  • General recommendations

Tool for validating scientific evidence:

  • Search the knowledge graph of the input
  • For each item, retrieve relevant information (for and against) from trusted sources
    • If there is no data, return unknown
  • Validate whether the hypothesis is consistent with the evidence
    • List issues and caveats for the hypothesis. For example sex, age, region specific considerations
  • Use the hierarchy, quality and amount of evidence, along with the alignment with research to determine a consensus score

Evidence: ScientificArticles/Search/AI-Q&A/EvidenceHierarchy

  • Diseases/RiskFactors/BodyParts/Externalities
  • Health score based on markers
    • Blood
    • Strength
    • Mental State
    • Sleep
  • Resource Use for foods
  • Semantic search for scientific articles
  • AI Q&A with RAG from curated articles and citations with quotes

Optimization#

Tendencies, Symptoms & Exams

  • Read exams and plot tendencies
  • Suggest metrics and biomarkers to track
    • Strength
    • Colds
    • Weight
    • Blood Pressure
    • Cholesterol
  • Input and track custom metrics
  • Suggest habits for the metrics that could most be improved

Supplements/Events/Reminders

  • Medical/Odontologist checkups
  • Custom reminders
  • Track supplement consumption and cumulative price/cost

Habits: Tracking/Challenges/Swaps

  • Probably mainly content based on non-optimal exams and biomarkers

Social Media#