Samsung Food, an app that is intended to take the guesswork out of meal planning thanks to a powerful AI engine behind it just expanded its capabilities significantly. What started off as an app announced earlier at IFA 2023, has now evolved over time and is filled to the brim with some exciting new features that help in your food management & meal planning.
Perhaps the most exciting thing about this new version of Food is its improved ability to recognize and categorize food using AI machine learning. By capturing over 40,000 different ingredients with your smartphone camera the app makes it simple to add products as you take photos so they are automatically added to your Food List. The Samsung Family Hub smart fridge does a better job, able to recognise just 33 objects it takes pictures of itself.
Personalized Meal Plans and Recipe Suggestions
The Samsung Food app serves you around the clock with individualized meal plans based on your nutritional requirements, dietary interests and recipe preferences. With this AI algorithm, after you have added all what you love to your Food List the app understands and calculates it for one or more than just that meal as a storage plan in your fridge, freezers & pantry but with some suggestions on how would get better usage from each food stuff making sure nothing of yours go off before getting consumed.
The paid option, Samsung Food Plus, goes a step further with a week’s worth of personalized meal plans featuring end-of-life ingredients and recipes to help use them up. This will help ensure that you use food before it goes bad, which can save money on groceries and reduce waste.
Seamless Integration with Samsung Appliances
While consumers exist with a phone agnostic food recording service, it excels when paired especially pairing their Samsung appliances. It also automatically populates your Food List with certain food items the Hub’s AI-powered cameras spot on their own as well to create a seamless experience.
Samsung Food also provides AI cooking steps which integrate with Samsung’s connected ovens, so you can preheat and set timers as well as change the oven temperature from within the app. The integration goes a step further in simplifying things, as now salads and other meals can be prepared easier than ever.
Automated Food Tracking and List Management
And some of the more interesting improvements to be found in Samsung Food are centered around automating your food tracking and list keeping. The app will even remove these items from your shopping list for you after they have been used in a meal. The app can then add them back to your Food List next time you make a purchase, all without you needed to re-enter anything on there side.
This method of automated tracking is huge for the many who seem to have trouble keeping an honest food diary. Because meal plans and recipe suggestions are updated as new inventory is added in real-time, Samsung Food listens to the signals of your home without requiring manual updates.
A Comprehensive Meal Planning Solution
Samsung Food, thanks to its AI-powered features, has become the perfect solution for planning your meals. From the aggregation of recipes across various platforms to easy food inventory management and personalization of plans based on your preferences and specific needs, it is a level above alternative meal planning options.
Although the expanded Samsung Food Plus with a few extra features comes at a price of $6.99 per month , or $59.99 per year, potential grocery bill savings and attitude towards waste may fully justify this cost. A free version of the app also offers optimal functionality, including creating a recommended meal plan for three days.
With more and more Samsung products introducing integration with Samsung Food, this idea may genuinely change the way we schedule our meals and manage our food intake. By benefitting from the potential of AI and automation, Samsung has created a holistic solution that may truly transform how we plan our meals and feed ourselves and our families by making it easy, convenient, and intuitive.
