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Meet the Winners:

NutriSight

A window to food nutritional transparency

About

Overview

Nutritional information is crucial in assessing the quality of food products, but often, this data is presented to consumers in the form of nutritional tables, which can be challenging to comprehend.
This project aims to address this issue by developing a tool that can automatically extract nutritional information from a photograph of food product’s packaging. Leveraging deep learning techniques, our solution will encompass a machine learning model and an associated API, capable of operating in a highly multilingual context, enabling the extraction of nutritional data from photos across a wide spectrum of countries and languages. Furthermore, our tool will facilitate the presentation of nutritional information in a more user-friendly manner, such as through the implementation of the Nutri-Score system.

In this project, we will develop a machine learning model that will be trained on a large dataset of annotated nutritional tables. The model will be trained on Open Food Facts images, which is the world’s largest open database of images of food products. These images will be annotated by professional annotators and used as training data.

Technology & Innovation

Impact & Scalability

To date, no tool exists that allows extracting nutritional information from a photo of a food product packaging in a multilingual setting. The machine learning model developed will thus be the first of its kind, and will be a major step forward in the field of FoodTech. It will benefit Open Food Facts, El CoCo and other third-party applications that will be able to integrate the model in their applications

Meet the Partners

Open Food Facts

France
RTO

Open Food Facts is the world’s largest open source food database, a sort of Wikipedia of Food. Its mission is to empower consumers & producers to measure and change at large scale the impact of food on our health (Nutri-Score) and on the planet (Eco-Score). We believe that food is a priority for health and environment and information about what we eat is of public interest.
Created in 2012, this non-profit pioneer of food transparency:
• exists thanks to 20,000+ contributors (being a collaborative project),
• displays data of 3.0M+ food products,
• is used by over 3M users a month,
• in more than 160 countries,
and encourages 180+ small & large producers to share their products’ data with consumers.

El CoCo

Spain
SME

El CoCo is one of the leading nutritional apps in Spain, with 700k+ of users. It has been featured in the media numerous times. El CoCo’s core focus lies in social innovation and community engagement, which constitutes a fundamental aspect of its business model. It is an entrepreneurial project formed by a team of passionate people convinced that it is possible to create a company that has a positive impact on society. Based on the collaborative economy, it is 100% independent. El Coco has been working with Open Food Facts for several years, and has been a key contributor to the Open Food Facts database.



Open Call #1 List of Winners

ATTESTED
NutriWell
SafeNutriKids
NutriSight

DRG4Food Open Call #2
Launching April 2024

Heads up! DRG4Food Open Call #2 is around the corner.

It’s your chance to advance your project
with a focus on digital responsibility in the food sector.
More info coming soon.

Check back in April