Crowd-sourced database
A crowd-sourced food database is a tracker's catalogue of foods typed in by its own users, brands and generics mixed, where the same food can appear many times with different figures. IZeat gives every item one attributed source, a label, a table, the customer or a marked estimate, so one customer's guess never becomes another customer's data and there is no catalogue to pick from.
The failure the community names most is this one: "the same food item can be listed a hundred times with different calorie counts", and picking the closest one becomes its own chore. IZeat's design removes the catalogue rather than cleaning it. Nothing a customer records is ever offered to another customer as a food, and no catalogue of foods exists in IZeat at all.
The crowd-sourced catalogue was a good idea for a keyboard: type three letters, pick an entry. It became the reason people distrust their totals, because an entry a stranger typed for a different size of the same product is indistinguishable from a right one. A sentence to an assistant needs no catalogue, and IZeat's rule of a source on every item is the alternative the community asked for in its own words.
Put it into practice: Estimates and sources.
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