Health tracking system with verification of nutrition information

A non-transient computer readable medium containing instructions for identifying verified ones of a plurality of user created data records relating to consumable items in a database by:

• receiving the plurality of user created data records from a plurality of user devices;
• storing the plurality of user created data records in the database, each of the plurality of user created data records including at least a description string;
• placing each of the plurality of user created data records into one of a plurality of groups based at least in part on the description string associated thereto such that individual ones of the plurality of user created data records having description strings which are determined to be similar are placed in a same one of said plurality of groups;
• assigning an individual score to individual ones of the plurality of user created data records in each of the plurality of groups, the individual scores being based at least in part on one or more of:
• a popularity of the individual ones of the plurality of user created data records and a similarity of the individual ones of the plurality of user created data records to other ones of the plurality of user created data records in a group to which the individual one is assigned;
• identifying one of the plurality of user created data records within a first one of the plurality of groups having a high score relative to other ones of the plurality of user created data records in the first one of the plurality of groups.

A health tracking system comprising:

• an interface configured to receive a plurality of nutritional data relating to consumables from a plurality of health tracking devices;
• a database configured to store the plurality of nutritional data relating to consumables as a plurality of data records, each of the plurality of data records including a description string;
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• a data processing system configured to:
• (i) group the plurality of data records into a plurality of groups based on the description strings thereof;
• (ii) apply a score each of said plurality of data records in each of said plurality of groups;
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• (iii) identify a reliable data record within each of the plurality of groups, the reliable data record comprising that one of the plurality of data records in a particular one of the plurality of groups associated with a high score.