New AI-powered service will provide customized recipes, meal planning intelligence and smart home compatibility
Samsung Electronics has officially unveiled the introduction of Samsung Food, an AI-powered food and recipe platform designed for personalization. Launching in 104 countries and available in eight languages, Samsung Food offers an expansive culinary journey with over 160,000 recipes on offer. It functions as a personalized aide, aiding users in discovering new dishes, devising customized meal plans, and even facilitating online ingredient orders. Moreover, the platform enables users to oversee their cooking devices, offers step-by-step guided cooking, and permits recipe sharing on social media platforms.
Utilizing the groundwork laid by Samsung's array of cooking appliances and culinary services, Samsung Food takes advantage of AI technology to elevate its capabilities and present a food platform that seamlessly adapts to users' unique needs and lifestyles. To achieve this, Samsung Food taps into the extensive database of Whisk, a smart food platform acquired by Samsung Next in 2019. This platform harnesses advanced Food AI technology, which proposes meals based on individual preferences and seasonal ingredients.
Chanwoo Park, Executive Vice President and Head of the Service Biz Group of the Digital Appliances Business at Samsung Electronics, remarked, "Our enjoyment of food and how we prepare it are central to our daily lives, and communal cooking and dining are cherished activities. By interconnecting digital appliances and mobile devices throughout the Samsung ecosystem, and by guiding users from shopping lists to the dining table, Samsung Food leverages advanced AI capabilities to deliver an incredibly personalized, all-in-one culinary encounter that users can direct right from their hands."
Samsung Food offers a comprehensive set of features that assist users at every stage of their meal planning and cooking journey, covering four essential areas: discovering and personalizing recipes, crafting tailored meal plans, facilitating connected cooking, and enabling social sharing functions.
When it comes to exploring recipes, Samsung Food empowers users to save recipes to their personal digital recipe collection anytime and from any location. The application evaluates recipes, standardizes their structure, and arranges them to generate shopping lists based on the required ingredients. Samsung Food provides recipe suggestions based on the user's managed list of available food items.
Additionally, Samsung Food features a "Personalize Recipe" function that allows the app's Food AI to directly modify saved recipes to align with users' specific dietary preferences. For instance, users have the capability to transform a recipe into a vegan or vegetarian rendition or introduce other alterations to produce a recipe that is nutritionally balanced or integrates ingredients currently in stock. Users even have the freedom to devise fusion recipes, such as Korean adaptations of Italian dishes, and tweak cooking durations or recipe complexity levels.
In addition to the initial capabilities offered by Samsung Food, the company is committed to continuously introducing fresh features and services to the app, enhancing the personal food experience with seamless and comprehensive offerings.
By the conclusion of this year, Samsung's plan encompasses integrating Samsung Health with Samsung Food, enabling users to receive personalized suggestions for managing their diet. This integration will enable the effortless synchronization of data like BMI, body composition, and calorie intake with Samsung Food, facilitating users in achieving their health objectives and sustaining a well-rounded diet.
Projected for implementation in 2024, the Vision AI technology will empower Samsung Food to identify food items and meals captured through the camera and furnish relevant details about them, including nutritional information. Through the analysis of food items, the app can suggest optimal recipes that feature these items, save these recommendations to the user's collection, and compile the necessary ingredients into a shopping list, all achievable with just a few taps.
Positioned within Samsung's ever-expanding array of services, Samsung Food signifies the next advancement in the all-encompassing yet deeply personalized experience that Samsung customers can relish within their own homes. Samsung Food is designed to further amplify the convenience attainable through a smart, interconnected kitchen equipped with Samsung home appliances. The platform will continue to receive updates, introducing novel features subsequent to its official launch.