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

基于人工智能的食物发现平台，适合有食物过敏和饮食偏好的人

• 批准号: 10045782
• 金额: $ 6.36万
• 依托单位: FOODBUD LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10045782
• 关键词: AI; based; food; discovery; platform

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.

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，根据每道菜使用/不使用的配料，搜索餐馆和餐馆内的特定菜肴。对于有食物过敏/不耐受/偏好的人来说，外出就餐是一件很有压力的事情，因为他们需要确保餐厅能为他们提供安全的食物。它需要查看几家餐厅的在线菜单，并在到达之前给选定的餐厅打电话。1-2%的成年人和5-8%的英国儿童对食物过敏，相当于大约200万人。这一数字不包括那些食物不耐受的人，这些人难以消化某些食物，并对它们产生不愉快的身体反应（食品标准局2016年）或患有乳糜泻的人——在英国，每100人中至少有1人患有乳糜泻（NHS网站，2019年12月）。此外，超过30%的人将至少一种食物作为生活方式的选择（Future Thinking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，根据塞恩斯伯里的研究，到2025年，25%的英国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郡大学（UIB）合作开展联合项目。这个为期6个月的项目旨在帮助Foodbud在平台上实施QIB数据集，该数据集包含英国境内消费的7万多种食材，以帮助人们获得相关的食品信息。该项目的产出将是一个市场就绪的概念验证平台，该平台建立在一个强大的数据库上，用于餐馆的安全和个性化食品消费。