Could an AI accurately assess the nutritional profile of a plate of food using only a phone photo? No calorimeter, no weighing scale, but can use full spectral sensitivity of camera and all the internet’s data, and train as much as you like.
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the right way to solve long term might be to use advanced continuous glucose monitors. Measure the impact of the food on your specific body, not the food itself.
Early days still for continuous body sensors.
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Doubt it. You can fry something up with a little olive oil or a lot of butter, and it looks about the same.
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hide my chips under a pile of spinach like prometheus tryna trick the gods into taking the bones
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I remember hearing google actually tried this internally. It didn’t work.
Good baseline question: could a human do it? Or are too many foodstuffs that look the same significantly different in their nutritional profile? (E.g., full fat vs low fat milk)
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Using purely a photo, training data from the internet, and no other kinds of imaging, I don’t think it can exist — mainly because many dishes do not even have confirmed caloric and nutritional information. Maybe MyFitnessPal could be a hub for this data, but it’s very inaccurate.










