PERSONALIZED NUTRITION

Is it important to have personalized nutrition?

A good diet not only gives you more years of life, strength and health. It also affects your mood, the state of your microbiota and your performance. Having a diet that adapts to your needs and nutrition, lifestyle is key.

The Ibermática Institute of Innovation (i3B) has created an artificial intelligence platform to extract millions of data generated from many aspects of nutrition.

The goal of this platform is to advance research in the field of culinary and personalized nutrition, which is a fundamental area in disease prevention. 

The platform allows data to be extracted (related to genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and microbiota – sports and health) to discover the relationships between all these variables, and obtain patterns that help companies in the sector to guide a completely personalized diet.

a little history

Since 1980, the Dietary Guidelines Guidance for the US has been the basis of nutritional recommendations for a healthy population. Although some risk recommendations are taken into account in these recommendations, DGA is recommended at a population level and is not intended to provide foods targeted to individuals.

The latest scientific evidence shows that the user approach can lead to improvements, which can be measured quantitatively, in dining behavior and leads to health compared to conventional approaches. In 2017, the Nutrition Association prioritizes further research needs to develop the role of personal transformation of real opportunities for approaches.

Artificial Intelligence will soon decide what we eat

Machine learning is changing the food industry. From how farmers determine what seeds they will plant to the ingredients used to prepare their meals, they have an AI-powered solution that is revolutionizing what we eat and how we eat it.

After about 200,000 years to meet basic nutritional needs, humans donate food to machines. Several companies such as IBM and startups Tastewise and SeeTree have begun to join the technology-driven food revolution.

The consequences of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence in the world of food:

• Reduce food waste and mortality due to malnutrition. Every year, more than 9 million people die from hunger. Without the intervention of technology, this number would grow exponentially.
• Gain a better understanding of consumer preferences. With the increasing presence of food in the media, being able to predict consumer food trends and preferences can help companies reduce food waste.
• Adaptation to changes. By the end of the century, the earth's population will increase by 45%, while arable land will decrease by 20%. Furthermore, arable land may not currently be used efficiently: half of farmers around the world suffer post-harvest losses each year due to poor planting practices. As demand for food increases, current agricultural models will have to improve, and this will be achieved through technology.

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WRITTEN BY

Gema Laso Araguás