Software that reads food weights from kitchen scale directly?

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Hello All,

I have been eating a CRON-style diet for a year and a half now, have

evolved to eating once per day, have seen my body temperature drop about a

degree F, and have seen my weight stabilize for a few months at around my

pre-collegiate ad lib weight. So, I think CRON will work for me. The

thing that I haven't done yet gotten around to is the bookkeeping: to

count macro and micronutrients to confirm that I am doing the CR and ON

components of CRON.

I'm figuring that nutrient tracking is the kind of thing that software does

well, and that since I eat most meals at home, I can do this nicely by

telling some software (e.g. Walford's DWIDP, or maybe something else) what

I am eating, and then having it tell me what I am missing.

For telling the software what I am eating, it seems what I'd need to do is

weigh on my kitchen scale the ingredients that go into my food.

For this step, it seems that the ideal thing would be to have nutrition

software that directly reads an electronic scale. Then like the person

working the checkout register at a grocery store where the scale is

automatically tied into a computerized point-of-sale system, I would key

into the computer just a code to identify the food being weighed, and the

software would read the weight directly from the scale. [There's another

optimization possible for the cook beyond what happens in the grocery store

checkout. If the software can measure not the total food weight on the

scale, but the delta since a previous measurement, it can save a

step. This would allow weighing each ingredient as it is added to the pot,

without having to weigh it separately]

My question to the list is:

Does anybody know of a software or software/hardware combo product that

works as I have just described, or that somehow else would work to spare me

the tedium and inaccuracy of typing in food weights?

Thanks for any info.

Best regards,

Dryden

PS: I am a software developer. If this software doesn't exist yet, then

maybe I would create software to collect the information as I described,

and then somehow pass the data into an existing nutrition software. Does

anybody else see demand for this? My take on this is that the CRON market

is tiny, but the weight-loss diet market is huge. If there is a

weight-loss diet that requires portion measurement, then there might be a

market for such a product (or one already on the market).