Plan your menus with AI or eat better without wasting

Artificial intelligence is also on our plates with applications to help us plan our meals, improve them or be careful during the holidays.

In order to balance your plate, applications use the smartphone camera before transmitting the image to artificial intelligence to analyze it and extract the maximum amount of information automatically. This is notably the idea behind Foodvisor, a French application, designed to avoid the tedious manual entry of different foods and quantities.

To recognize each ingredient like potatoes or chicken, hundreds of photos initially fed the AI. To determine the quantities, the AI ​​calculates the distance from the plate and the area occupied by each ingredient. And if the application gets stuck on the contents of the plate, you can always help it by detailing the ingredients by hand. The meal is then added to the daily monitoring, enriched with its nutritional assessment.

On the same principle, if summer rhymes with sobriety, several applications allow you to follow what you eat almost with a magnifying glass. This is particularly the case of Calorie Mama on Android and iOS, an application that also relies on AI and on taking photos of your plates. Mention, for another French application, Breton to be precise, and which will also soon celebrate its tenth anniversary: ​​Frigo Magic. The latter offers recipes based on the ingredients at your disposal, in your cupboards or your fridge, in an anti-waste spirit. Third-party applications that must be installed and sometimes purchased on iPhone because as standard, Apple does not offer any application dedicated to food: nothing as standard on the smartphone of the brand with the apple.

On the other hand, Samsung launched its mobile recipe application based on artificial intelligence a year ago. Samsung Food is based on a database of 160,000 recipes. It relies in particular on AI to import recipes that you find on Instagram or on a blog, for example. It determines the ingredients that you need to buy or order online, it recommends meals, with a calendar to support it, taking into account your preferences and any allergies, with detailed nutritional information. The application can even be connected to your refrigerator and control your oven, provided that it is a compatible model – generally high-end – from the Korean brand. The Samsung Food application exists, of course, in an Android version but also for iPhone and iPad.