Nutrition web app · 2026
Saffron
South Asian nutrition education that keeps the food you already cook and teaches the plate in household units — katoris, rotis, cups, dosas.
Saffron is for South Asian households cooking Indian home food — including people watching blood sugar, heart health, sodium, protein, and fiber — who don't want to switch to a Western diet. The method is portion, pairing, and familiar swaps: keep the grain, pair it, serve a smaller katori.
A fourteen-dish recipe library covers chole, masala dal, sambar, ragi dosa, chicken kuzhambu, and more, each with per-serving calories, protein, carbs, fiber, saturated fat, sodium, and glycemic load, plus ingredients by aisle, steps, health notes, and swaps. The plate builder works by hand in household units or by photo: SnapPlate sends a picture to a vision model, normalizes the scan onto the plate, and returns totals, insights, and a send-to-grocery action. A thirty-five-food explorer compares up to three foods side by side, and the grocery list merges recipes or the current plate, grouped by aisle.
Around the food sits a community loop: dietitian Q&A threads, a family recipe exchange with a dish-submission form, saved and recently-viewed dishes, and a dietitian dashboard with a review queue and engagement charts. Onboarding focuses the whole app on the visitor's health goal.
What it does
Recipe library
Fourteen dishes with search and filters for diet, region, meal, goal, and time, each with full per-serving nutrition, health notes, and swaps.
Plate builder + photo scan
Build a plate in katoris, rotis, dosas, and cups, or photograph it — the vision model logs the foods, totals the plate, and explains it.
Food explorer
Thirty-five everyday foods with estimates, comparable three at a time and addable to the plate.
Grocery by aisle
One list merged from recipes or the plate, grouped into produce, spices, grains, lentils, dairy, meat, and pantry.
Community + dietitian workflow
Ask-a-dietitian threads, recipe exchange, dish submissions, and a review dashboard for dietitians.
Built with
- React 19 with TanStack Start, Router, Query, and Table
- Tailwind CSS v4 with Radix UI primitives
- Zustand session state, Zod with React Hook Form
- Recharts engagement dashboards
- Better Auth with Kysely, Postgres, and Pglite
- OpenRouter vision model for the SnapPlate meal scan
- Nitro on Vercel