Why does Waistline import ingredients and traces from OFF?

[EmilJunker]

For a while now, when importing food items from OFF, Waistline also imports the ingredients_text and traces fields. I would be interested to know why it does that. As far as I can tell, this information isn't used for anything. But especially the ingredients_text can take up a lot of valuable storage space in the local database.

If this is about food intolerances, I think it would make more sense to import just the allergens field instead of the whole ingredients_text.

Otherwise, maybe we can drop these fields altogether?

[davidhealey]

Otherwise, maybe we can drop these fields altogether?

Yep let's drop them. I think I added support for importing them when I added support for uploading them, but can't really see a use for it. I don't think we need allergens either.

Might also be good to remove the uploading of ingredients and traces too since I think the app should keep its focus on calorie/nutrition tracking.

[teolemon]

@davidhealey Allowing Waistline users to at least take a photo of the ingredients would be hugely beneficial to the project. Wording it like "Help Waistline's datasource by sending a photo of the ingredients" could set expectations right.

[davidhealey]

Maybe we could have an additional images section.