WHAT-TO-TASTE: A FOOD RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM

Food Recommendation System Project Report

This document discusses content-based recommendation systems, i.e., systems that recommend an item to a user based upon a description of the item and a profile of the user’s interests. Basically it gives you a clear example of content-based recommendation systems, specifically a food recommendation system. The dataset that is used in this project is from “yemeksepeti.com”. Similar foods are rec...

Highlight: A Matter of Taste—Whales Have Abandoned Their Ability to Taste Food

Living in a world of prepared salads, soups, and sandwiches, our survival may not seem to hinge upon careful tasting what we eat. But for most of our species’ history, it was a life or death matter, and—for most other animals—it still is. Their sense of taste keeps them alive. "The most significant decision you make in your life everyday is, when you put something into your mouth, whether to sw...

Personalized Food Recommendation

In this paper a food recommender system giving general and personalized advice is described. The system is based on semi-formal knowledge of personal nutrition gained in a previous project (Food4Me). This project implements a manual expert knowledge based approach using a decision tree for recommending optimal adaptions to the individual nutrition behavior. The system was evaluated in a Proof-o...

Nordic Food Markets – a taste for competition

Taste Recognition: Food for Thought

The ability to identify food that is nutrient-rich and avoid toxic substances is essential for an animal's survival. Although olfaction and vision contribute to food detection, the gustatory system acts as a final checkpoint control for food acceptance or rejection behavior. Recent studies with model organisms such as mice and Drosophila have identified candidate taste receptors and examined th...