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Food Recommendation Engine Create a "Taste Genome" comparable to Pandora's "Music Genome" and let people select which foods they like, then recommend foods wit
by sbe 16y ago
Food Recommendation Engine
Create a "Taste Genome" comparable to Pandora's "Music Genome" and let people select which foods they like, then recommend foods with similar taste profiles. (foodgenome.com appears to be an abandoned attempt at this.)
Alternately, let people enter the foods they like. Using an algorithm similar to Facebook's suggested friends one, treat the food as friends. If a lot of people who share your taste also like something else, offer it as a suggestion.
This would help picky eaters (e.g., me) venture out and try new foods.
- photon_off 16y agoThinkCook.com is apparently the "pandora or recipe sites". It's not bad, but their database of recipes is quite small. Along the similar lines, I was thinking of making a site that would take uploads of your grocery receipts (via iPhone app, or SMS or something) and use OCR to scan and determine which ingredients you've purchased. Then it could make a database of items you have in stock and recommend recipes based on the ingredients you have (and recipe ratings). Also, it'd be able to determine which ingredients were likely to spoil soon, and thus suggest meals which make use of those ingredients. My conclusion after a long while surfing recipe websites is that there is really no shortage of good recipes online. Also, receipts can be long and require more than one photo which would be a pain in the ass. I do think the receipt concept has something to it, though. It'd be amazing to keep tabs on everything I own.