Get nutrition details from food shared in Slack
A meal or recipe in a Slack message can become a quick nutrition lookup, saving your team from retyping the description into another tool.
Trigger
Channel Message Received
Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.
Action
Extract Nutrition Information
Tool to extract nutrition information from text query. use when you need to parse food-related text (e.g., recipes, menus) to calculate corresponding nutrition data.
Why this helps
Nutrition questions often require copying food descriptions out of a conversation and manually checking another service.
- Use the meal or recipe description already shared in Slack.
- Reduce copying and retyping for a simple nutrition lookup.
- Return extracted nutrition details in a Notis run report.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Slack and Api ninjas once using the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations or ask Notis to set it up conversationally.
- 3Write one instruction asking Notis to extract nutrition information with Api ninjas when a Slack message asks about a meal or recipe and describes the food.
- 4Select the Slack channel message trigger and choose a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with one real meal or recipe description.
Questions about this workflow
What kind of text can it use?
The action extracts nutrition information from food-related text such as a recipe or menu description.
Does it analyze food photos?
This action uses a text query, so the Slack message should describe the food in words.
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