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I counted 14 almonds in the video. It said there were 15 grams of protein in the almonds. Almonds have about a quarter gram of protein each.

Also, you can't view the total eclipse in either locations it stated.

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Yeah that stood out to me, would need ~60 almonds to have that much protein.

A screen would be useful for showing the details of how it misestimated the almond count, and let you adjust them.

That's a big part of the issue to me as well, it's not going to be reliable. The dragonfruit example is correct, but I can't imagine it being accurate when it's not "single whole objects of average size that are in the USDA nutrition database". Pretty scary if you try to rely on it for something like translation.

The dragonfruit example is wrong.

> How much sugar is in this?

> A whole dragonfruit contains 7.31 grams of sugar.

100 grams of dragonfruit contains 9.75 grams of sugar.

https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/2344729/...

A whole dragonfruit weighs closer to 350-600 grams.

https://www.seedsdelmundo.com/blog/average-dragon-fruit-weig...

The link you posted has "1 fruit" as an option listed as 75g. Which does seem light, but it's at least an actual source for the number it used instead of a hallucination like the eclipse thing.

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