Item curation with ingredient-based lens

A lens computer system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• receive a plurality of dish items from each of a plurality of merchants, wherein each of the plurality of dish items comprises dish information that describes features of each of the plurality of dish items;
• maintain a plurality of local ingredient-based lenses, wherein each of the local ingredient-based lenses is associated with a plurality of indicators, wherein the plurality of indicators include one or more positive indicators or one or more negative indicators;
• for each of the plurality of dish items received from each of the plurality of merchants:
• parse the dish information to identify one or more positive indicators or one or more negative indicators, and
• assign each dish item to one or more of the plurality of local ingredient-based lenses based on the identified one or more positive indicators or one or more negative indicators;
• receive an ingredient-based lens from a consumer;
• compare and match the ingredient-based lens received from the consumer with the plurality of local ingredient-based lenses;
• identify a subset of the plurality of dish items from one or more of the plurality of merchants based upon the comparing and matching;
• and
• provide the subset of the plurality of dish items to a graphical user interface (GUI) at a user device of the consumer.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a plurality of instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• receive a plurality of dish items from each of a plurality of merchants, wherein each of the plurality of dish items comprises dish information that describes features of each of the plurality of dish items;
• maintain a plurality of local ingredient-based lenses, wherein each of the local ingredient-based lenses is associated with a plurality of indicators, wherein the plurality of indicators include one or more positive indicators or one or more negative indicators;
• for each of the plurality of dish items received from each of the plurality of merchants:
• parse the dish information to identify one or more positive indicators or one or more negative indicators, and
• assign each dish item to one or more of the plurality of local ingredient-based lenses based on the identified one or more positive indicators or one or more negative indicators;
• receive an ingredient-based lens from a consumer;
• compare and match the ingredient-based lens received from the consumer with the plurality of local ingredient-based lenses;
• identify a subset of the plurality of dish items from one or more of the plurality of merchants based upon the comparing and matching;
• and
• provide the subset of the plurality of dish items to a graphical user interface (GUI) at a user device of the consumer.