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Notes from the shared table.

What we're learning about AI nutrition tracking, communal meals, and the cuisines mainstream calorie apps still get wrong.

May 16, 2026
How to track hot pot without guessing your portion
Hot pot is hard to log because one photo cannot know what you ate from a shared table. Here is how to estimate your portion without logging the whole meal.
May 6, 2026
AI calorie apps have a shared meal problem
University of Sydney researchers tested 18 AI nutrition apps in 2024. The apps overestimated beef pho calories by 49 percent and underestimated pearl milk tea by up to 76 percent.