README.md

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title: Food‑Recognition API
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# 🍎 Food‑Recognition API (Hugging Face Space)

This Space runs a tiny **FastAPI** service that wraps the model  
`BinhQuocNguyen/food-recognition-model`.  

It:

* loads the food‑recognition model once at start‑up  
* accepts an image (base‑64‑encoded) via **POST `/analyze`**  
* returns the top food label, a confidence score, an estimated portion weight (g) and the estimated calories for that portion.

## 🚀 How to call the API

```bash
curl -X POST https://<your‑username>-my-food-api.hf.space/analyze \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"image":"<base64‑string>"}'