Food-Additives-Browser
This project is a work in progress. In its current state, it contains all features initially planned but I want to expand its scope as I become more familiar with using Pandas and TKinter.
Description:
Many processed food packages contain long lists of confusing chemical names as food additives which are not immediately evident what their use is. This is a simple program with a GUI that searches 'FoodSubstances.csv' file from 'Substances Added to Food' FDA inventory (https://www.cfsanappsexternal.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm?set=FoodSubstances&sort=Used_for_Technical_Effect&order=ASC&type=basic&search=) for common unintuitive ingredients you may find on food packaging. The browser will return a single result ingredient/compound and uses if an exact match is entered or will return a suggested list if the search has multiple results. The follow up search will return info on the shortest-named ingredient containing the searched text and its uses.
Installation:
Download both files and place them in the same folder/direcotry. This code is not yet available as an executable and requires a python code interpreter to function (*most IDEs are able to write and run or 'interpret' code). This program will only run a file named 'FoodSubstances.csv' unless you change the target path in the code.