Project: FoodFriend

Autonomous and easy-to-use tool for monitoring of personal food intake and personalized feedback.
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  • Duration: 10/2019 – 10/2022
  • Funding: ITEA3

About the project

FoodFriend is an ITEA3-5 project with consortia in The Netherlands and Romania. The goal of the Food Friend project is to develop a complete toolset, consisting of hardware, software and methodologies, that can automatically measure a person’s food intake with a minimum of required user input and turn it into personalised and actionable feedback. The system can be used by care professionals, research institutions, caterers or home users to get a better overview of a person’s dietary behaviour.

The Dutch use case is provided by Nutricia, and has to do with building a detailed nutritional profile and associated recommendations using data obtained from enteral nutrition pumps, which are being used to treat malnutrition in hospitals. Using data from these pumps, a personalized decision support engine will be developed which tracks the nutrients a patient receives and provides them and their professional with advice. 

Goal

The goal of this system is to improve treatment adherence and outcomes, and provide more high-quality data to clinical decision makers and dieticians, who can use this information to formulate better, more personalized treatment plans.

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