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**每道菜使用/不使用**来搜索餐厅和餐厅内的特定菜肴。对于对食物过敏/不耐受/偏好的人来说，外出就餐是一件压力很大的事情，因为他们需要确保餐厅为他们提供安全的食物。这需要查看几家餐厅的在线菜单，并在到达之前致电选定的餐厅。1-2%的成年人和5%-8%的英国儿童对食物过敏，相当于**200万人**。这一数字不包括那些食物不耐受的人，即难以消化某些食物并对它们有令人不快的身体反应的人(食品标准局2016)或患有乳糜泻的人-英国至少每100人中就有一人(NHS网站，DEC 2019)。此外，超过30%的人将至少避免一种食物组作为生活方式的选择(未来思维报告，SEP 2019)。英国公共卫生估计，70%的英国成年人希望采用更健康的生活方式，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(基于植物的新闻SEP 2020)。**Foodbud计划对数字菜单和其他数字产品进行标准化，以获取食物信息，并赋予消费者受过教育的决策能力。**Foodbud已经与Quadram Institute of Biosciences和Bedfordshire大学(UIB)合作开展了联合项目。这个6个月的项目旨在帮助Foodbud在该平台上实施QIB数据集，其中包括超过7万种在英国消费的配料，帮助人们获取相关的食品信息。该项目的成果将是一个市场就绪的概念验证平台，建立在强大的数据库基础上，用于餐馆安全和个性化的食品消费。

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.