A Properly-Sourced, Current Oxalate Food Database So Kidney-Stone Patients Can Actually Track What Triggers Them

mobile app real project •• multiple requests

Kidney-stone formers trying to limit oxalate find that mainstream nutrition trackers either lack oxalate data or carry wrong data: a Cronometer user enduring stone surgery documented that blueberries show zero oxalates, which is false. The broken part is the food databases, not the tracking interfaces, because oxalate information is scattered, contradictory, and built on an aging Harvard list. The opportunity is a trustworthy, maintained oxalate database, with a tracker on top, built for stone prevention.

builder note

The product is the dataset, not the app. Properly digitize and version the Harvard oxalate research, cite per-food provenance, and the tracker is almost an afterthought; skip the data work and you've just built broken-database app number four.

landscape (3 existing solutions)

Stone-prevention apps are starting to appear, but they all sit on thin, inconsistent oxalate data. Whoever curates the database properly wins the category.

Cronometer Tracks oxalate as a field, but the underlying food database has missing or zero values; users hand-substitute entries against the Harvard list.

MyFitnessPal Does not track oxalate at all, even on the premium tier.

OxalateGuard / OxiPur Purpose-built and a real improvement, but each ships its own limited food list; the core problem, a single authoritative and current oxalate dataset, is still unsolved.

sources (1)

other https://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/6529/oxalates-track... "Blueberries show 0 oxalates. Not true." 2024-12-10

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