TriggerFood launches: Use it to find your trigger foods

After a year and a half of development, I'm pleased to announce that TriggerFood is finally publicly available. For those who haven't followed its development, TriggerFood is a web application that lets people track what they eat and how they feel, and then analyzes these food and health entries to see what foods might be causing them to feel bad. It's based on the proven practice (often advised by doctors) of keeping a food diary and then looking for patterns. The advantages of using TriggerFood are that it has a database of over 10,000 foods, so it can keep track of food ingredients for you too, and then analyze the foods, their ingredients and your health in a systematic way that would be incredibly difficult by hand.

So who would benefit from using TriggerFood? Well, what inspired me to write this software was personal experience with family and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). IBS sufferers often find themselves guessing and second-guessing what they eat, trying to figure out what they might be causing them so much trouble. I thought it'd be great if someone had developed software that let people keep a food and health diary and did some sort of analysis, but after quite a bit of searching I found that there really wasn't anything that fit the bill. So I started writing some software, originally just intending it for my own family's use, but eventually came to realize that this could benefit many people, and started getting it ready for public use.

Want to check it out? Head over to www.triggerfood.com. For a tour of how it works, be sure to take the tour at www.triggerfood.com/tour.