📋 How to Use Food Analyst Bot
🤖 Adding the Bot to Your Chat
To add the Food Analyst Bot to your Telegram chat or channel:
- Open your Telegram group or channel
- Add @foodanalystbot as an administrator
- Grant necessary permissions for sending messages and managing photos
- The bot will automatically analyze food photos posted in the chat
📱 Direct Messaging
You can also use the bot directly:
- Search for @foodanalystbot in Telegram
- Start a conversation with the bot
- Send photos of your food for instant nutritional analysis
⌨️ Available Commands
/start - Welcome message and introduction
/help - Show all available commands
/goals - Set your daily nutrition goals (manual or AI-guided)
/summary - Get today's nutrition summary
/progress - Check your progress toward nutrition goals
/erase - Remove food entries from today's log
/leaderboard or /top - View the nutrition leaderboard
/feedback - Send suggestions or report bugs
📸 Using the Bot
Simply send a photo of your food to get nutritional information including:
- Calories
- Protein
- Carbohydrates
- Fat
- Fiber
- Hydration content
⚙️ Setting Nutrition Goals
Use the /goals command to set your daily targets:
/goals
You can choose between:
- Manual Entry: Enter your own values (comma-separated)
- AI-Guided: Answer questions for personalized recommendations
🏆 Leaderboard System
The leaderboard ranks users based on how closely they meet their nutrition goals:
- 1000 points: Perfect adherence (100% of all goals)
- 900 points: ±10% deviation from goals
- Lower scores: Greater deviation from targets
Usernames are masked for privacy (e.g., "Jo********")
💡 Tips
- Add captions to your food photos for better analysis accuracy
- Reply to bot messages with corrections if the analysis seems wrong
- Use /erase to remove entries you want to exclude from your daily total
- Check your progress regularly with /progress