Jennifer Smilowitz

AI can help consumers understand the health effects of their food beyond Nutrition Facts Labels. The goal is to empower users to know what they eat and how it affects their health. We will develop a "food photo to ingredients" and an "ingredients to health outcome" module. In collaboration with the Dietary Assistant project, these will integrate into a mobile app.

Our goal is to deliver healthy foods at low cost to improve nutrition for all Americans. Advances in chemistry reveal thousands of unique food molecules. This project extends ML models to include the gut microbiome and explores cost-health trade-offs in dietary choices.

The project aims to address the challenges in assessing the effects of diet on human health by developing AI-assisted methods for real-time capture of diet and predicting the glycan content in images of mixed meals from real-world food diaries to enhance understanding of the impact on the gut microbiome.