Menu Decoder · Lowdown

MENU DECODER / LOWDOWN

Paste a menu or dish names. Every number traces to a source you can inspect.

How it works, in the open: your menu text goes to Claude, which breaks each dish into likely ingredients and portion guesses. Every ingredient is then matched against the corpus (Harvard 2023 + 6 academic sources; sodium via USDA) locally in this page — tap a dish to see the full chain: ingredient → matched food → value → source. Ingredients with no corpus match are shown as unknowns, not guessed. Restaurant sodium comes mostly from kitchen salt, brines, and sauces, so sodium is flagged by preparation risk rather than faked as a number. Estimates, not measurements. Not medical advice.