Meet Foodvisor, a startup that has constructed a cellular app that helps you log every part you eat with the intention to shed some pounds, comply with a food regimen or get more healthy. You can add information by capturing a photograph of your plate earlier than you eat.
“We’ve spent a little over two years doing research and development before we launched the app in 2018 in France,” co-founder and CMO Aurore Tran informed me. Foodvisor has raised $1.5 million to date (€1.four million).
The firm is utilizing deep studying to allow picture recognition and detect what you’re about to eat. In addition to figuring out the kind of meals, the app tries to estimate the load of every merchandise.
Foodvisor tries to judge the space between your plate and your cellphone utilizing digital camera autofocus information. It then calculates the realm of every meals merchandise. The firm then tries to extrapolate the quantity of every merchandise relying on the kind of meals.
And after all, if Foodvisor obtained one thing fallacious, you possibly can manually right it earlier than you log your meal. Many individuals quit on diet trackers as a result of it’s too demanding. Foodvisor’s expertise is all about making the information entry course of as seamless as attainable.
After that, you get a listing of diet info about what you simply ate — energy, proteins, carbs, fat, fibers, and so on. You can then set a aim, log actions and monitor your progress over time.
The startup has managed to draw 1.eight million app downloads already. It is accessible on iOS and Android in French, English, German and Spanish. “We have adjusted our product, we’ve enriched our database to better target the American market,” Tran mentioned.
It presents a premium subscription for $5 to $10 per thirty days. In addition to extra evaluation and food regimen plans, the primary characteristic of the premium plan is that you would be able to chat with a registered dietitian nutritionist straight within the app. It seems that synthetic intelligence can’t substitute actual human nutritionists altogether.
