Calculating food values
If you’ve ever wondered about the nutritional content of food, your problems are at an end, because here’s WolframAlpha, a computational knowledge engine!
Whatever is that, I hear you cry.
Quite straight-forward, Wolfram|Alpha is an early stage of a long-term project that aims to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.
The way it works is that you type in a question, or a calculation you need to make, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.
The link I’m sending you to is based on food and nutrition, but if you browse some of the other options, you’ll find plenty of other fascinating facts!
Enjoy… and please add, as a comment, some of the nutritional and health-related uses you can find for Wolfram|Alpha.
Here’s just one idea to start you off, go to the site and type in “2 weetabix + bowl of milk” (without the quotes).
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