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Imagine if, after a long day at work, your fridge could look to see what you’ve got in stock and then suggest a meal composed of those ingredients. That’s what Samsung has developed with anew personalized cooking experiencefeature for its fridges, shown off at CES.
The tech combines Samsung’s Whisk smart food platform with the ViewInside camera for its Samsung Family Hub refrigerator. Using A.I.-powered image recognition, the tech is able to understand the items you have in your fridge (including tracking expiration dates) and use these to recommend a curated list of recipe suggestions. These can be further customized to not only incorporate the ingredients you already have in your possession, but also according to specific food preferences.
Previous versions of the Family Hub refrigerator range let users remotely view the inside of their fridge on a mobile device via the inbuilt cameras.
“Whisk’s integration with Family Hub’s ViewInside is aimed at helping users creatively solve the problem of waste food,” a spokesperson for Samsung told Digital Trends. “The average person wastes 238 pounds of food annually, making up 21% of the food they buy. Whisk’s Food A.I. understands what’s in your fridge and recommends recipes to use those ingredients up before they go bad.”
The Family Hub fridge, meanwhile, will automatically recognize leftover ingredients and show a list of recipe recommendations to cook with the leftover ingredients, which are expiring soonest. Smart, right?
Whisk’s Food A.I. is a massive collaboration between 100 food data experts, nutritionists, data scientists and software engineers around the world. If it works half as well as is promised, this could be something really interesting.
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