Can AI make food healthier?

My wife is so upset while she was shopping. She is highly sensitive to health and safety issues. Every time she buys something at the store, she checks all the ingredients. If it contains any ingredients she can't understand, she doesn't buy it. I'm not that sensitive, but I also started checking it together as I always hear it. Now thinking about healthy food becomes a part of my life.

 

Market Kurly is an online shopping service in South Korea. It aims to deliver fresh ingredients in very early morning, so that customers can check their order in the morning. Market Kurly's customers love this service since they can prepare healthy breakfast with fresh ingredients just delivered  at dawn. Market Kurly so much cares about HEALTHY food; thus, all the ingredients mixed in the product and also materials of the package are strictly examined. I guess Market kurly's customers have quite strict standard on healthy food like my wife.

 

A food product may have preservants or other types of ingredient to make food fresh. But customers like my wife don't think the product is healthy enough if something else is mixed in it. Recently, there are research concept named Safe and Sustainability by Design (SSbD). Product should be designed to be safe and sustainable from the beginning. Tha't the concept of SSbD. Thus, all the ingredients in the product should be safe to human and eco-friendly, and also thses components should be recyclable. I came to know this concept in European research project. Europe launched zero pollution ambition, and chemical safety is one of key part in the policy, named Chemical Safety Strategy (CSS). This policy suggests guideline to make chemical industry safer and sustainable. Many new chemicals are produced every years, and they all should be safe to human and enviroment. European research project aims to develop tools to apply SSbD in industry.

 

My research topic is a prediction of chemical toxicity with AI, and I have been working on AI model development; however, I have never thought about the impact of my research to every day life. So I would like to do some test what can be done for the real life questions. I'll start from my wife's questions on chemicals mixed in a food product. Many many AI models have been developed to check if certain chemicals are safe or not. This models are much smaller than chatGPT, which requires high spec machine; however, toxicity prediction software is much lighter. It perfectly works in local laptop or desktop. Anyone can download the software. I have taught students, and they also can use the software without much difficulty.

 

I have developed video lecturs on this skill already, but these are for someone willing to learn progamming. These series are for anyone who have doubt on any chemical they encountered in daily life and use toxicity prediction AI without programming skills. 

 

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