AI based food discovery platform for people with food allergies and dietary preferences

Foodbud是一家初创公司，旨在提供一个简单的软件工具，根据食物过敏/偏好/医疗饮食限制搜索餐厅和餐厅内的特定菜肴，基于每道菜中使用/不使用的成分 **。对于食物过敏/不耐受/偏好的人来说，外出就餐是一件有压力的事情，因为他们需要确保餐厅能为他们提供安全的饭菜。它需要检查几家餐馆的在线菜单，并在到达前致电所选餐馆。1 -2%的成年人和5-8%的英国儿童有食物过敏，相当于约 ** 200万人 **。这个数字不包括那些有食物不耐受的人，这是难以消化某些食物，并对它们有不愉快的身体反应（食品标准局2016）或患有乳糜泻的人-在英国至少有1/100的人（NHS网站，2019年12月）。此外，超过30%的人避免至少一种食物作为生活方式的选择（未来思维报告，2019年9月）。英国公共卫生部估计，70%的英国成年人希望采取更健康的生活方式，根据Sainsbury的研究，到2025年，25%的布里茨人将成为素食主义者（Plant Based News 2020年9月）。Foodbud计划将数字菜单和其他数字产品标准化，以获取食品信息，并赋予消费者受过教育的决策能力。Foodbud已经与Quadram生物科学研究所和贝德福德大学（UIB）合作开展联合项目。这个为期6个月的项目旨在帮助Foodbud在平台上实现英国消费的超过70，000种成分的QIB数据集，以帮助人们获得相关的食品信息。该项目的成果将是一个基于强大的数据库的市场概念验证平台，用于餐馆的安全和个性化食品消费。

Foodbud is a start-up aiming to provide a simple software tool to search restaurants and specific dishes within the restaurant according to food allergies/preferences/medical dietary restrictions based on **the ingredients used/not used** in each dish.Dining out is a stressful event for people with a food allergy/intolerance/preference as they need to make sure the restaurant can serve a safe meal for them. It requires checking several restaurants' online menus and calling the chosen restaurant before arrival.1-2% of adults and 5-8% of UK children have a food allergy, equating to about **2 million people**. This figure does not include those with food intolerances, which is difficulty digesting certain foods and have an unpleasant physical reaction to them (Food Standards Agency 2016) or those with coeliac disease - at least 1 in 100 people in the UK (NHS website, DEC 2019).Besides that, over 30% of people avoid at least one food group as a lifestyle choice (Future Thinking report, SEP 2019). Public Health England estimates 70% of UK adults want to adopt a healthier lifestyle and according to Sainsbury's research, 25% of Brits will be Vegan by 2025 (Plant Based News SEP 2020).**Foodbud plans to standardize digital menus and other digital products to access food information and empower the consumer with educated decision-making abilities.**Foodbud has already worked in partnerships with Quadram Institute of Biosciences and the University of Bedfordshire (UIB) for joint projects. The 6 months project aims to help Foodbud implement the QIB dataset of over 70,000 ingredients consumed within the UK on the platform, to help people get access to relevant food information.The output of this project will be a market-ready proof-of-concept platform built on a robust database for safe and personalised food consumption in restaurants.