Journal

Notes from the capstone.

Monthly reflections on features built, problems solved, and lessons learned while developing What's On My Food.

• August 2026 — Milestone 5·Caleb Barranco

  Marketplace Comparisons

  Comparing a scanned product against retailer alternatives, with price, package size, health context, and clearly labeled development data.

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• August 2026 — Milestone 4·Caleb Barranco

  Product Details and My Pantry

  A redesigned product details screen with clearer findings and data freshness, plus a full My Pantry experience for saving, sorting, and reopening products offline.

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• August 2026 — Milestone 3·Caleb Barranco

  AI and Ingredient Recovery

  Recovering missing ingredient data from label scans and moving Bitwise AI explanations behind a protected backend with validation and safe fallbacks.

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• July 2025 — Milestone 2·Caleb Barranco

  Grounding Gemini in the Additive Database

  How I moved the AI layer from free-form answers to source-grounded explanations that cite the additive database on every response.

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• July 2025 — Milestone 1·Caleb Barranco

  Scan-to-Explanation: First Analysis Pipeline

  An introduction, the first working scan-to-analysis pipeline, and an honest retrospective on month one of my capstone.

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