Startup Idea: Food Allergy Tracker Startup Idea

Startup idea to develop an app or computer program that simplifies food journaling for individuals with dietary restrictions or food intolerances. This app is designed to track food intake, medicines, negative reactions and the time of each event. Over time, the program identifies repeating patterns linking specific foods to adverse reactions, suggesting potential allergies or intolerances.

I work with developing recipes for those with dietary restrictions that are easy and affordable to follow. I do this on my own, as well as with nutritionists and other food service professionals.

One of the issues I come across frequently is multiple food allergies or intolerances, where the individual knows they react to something (or multiple somethings) in a particular food group, but do not know for sure what that is.

Food journaling is what many doctors and nutritionists suggest, but it is tedious at best to write down every item, every time a negative reaction occurs, etc.

A solution I have wished for in terms of this journaling is an app or computer program that would allow easy input of the item (without amount and calories being necessary), easy input of medicines, and easy input of the negative result, and at what time each event happened.

Ideally, over a period of time, the app would be able to pinpoint the problem areas (i.e. eating whole wheat bread at lunch means stomach problems the rest of the day, and this has happened x amount of times; therefore you may have a gluten intolerance).

What would make this even more helpful is the ability to scan a barcode on the food item to store favorites in the app/software as well.