Samsung Launches AI-Enabled Smart Recipe App
Samsung has fulfilled its promise by launching Food, an app that utilizes artificial intelligence and offers personalized food and recipe recommendations. The app is now available in 104 countries and eight languages. Samsung acquired Whisk, a food database app, a few years ago, and the newly launched app bears resemblance to a version of Whisk that was unveiled last year. Considering Samsung’s significant presence in kitchens with its smart appliances, the introduction of a food and recipe app appears to be a natural progression for the company.
The app allows users to search for recipes from around the world, save them and make weekly meal plans. The company prepared more than 160,000 recipes for the launch, and this number is expected to grow. Samsung Food can also be used on mobile phones and Samsung Family Hub smartphones, such as refrigerators, while allowing users to manage ingredients, purchases, etc.
Users can save recipes at any time, and the app will analyze them, standardize the format and organize them into shopping lists based on ingredients. It can also provide recipe recommendations based on available foods that are controlled by the user. It even has a “personalize recipe” function that uses artificial intelligence to change recipe recipes and create things like vegan or vegetarian versions. “Users can even create fusion recipes, such as Korean versions of Italian dishes, and adjust the cooking time or skill level of the recipes,” adds Samsung.
It uses artificial intelligence to generate recommendations for personalized daily meal plans based on dietary preferences and favorite types of food. Nutrient breakdowns can be viewed at any time, and users can add items to shopping lists and then send them directly to the retailer’s online checkout. Connected cooking allows users to preheat ovens, set timers and transfer cooking settings to supported devices via a step-by-step guided cooking mode.
Last week, Samsung said it hoped to have 1 million users worldwide for the app. While there are tons of recipe apps out there (Mealtime, Paprika, Yummly, etc.), Samsung may have an edge thanks to its millions of smart devices sold — making it a known quantity among consumers.
Samsung plans to add new features such as integration with Samsung Health to sync parameters such as BMI and calorie consumption while offering suggestions for diet management. The app will include artificial intelligence technology by 2024, when Samsung Food will be able to identify food items through a camera and provide information such as nutritional information. Samsung Food is now available for download on Android and iOS.
