Recipe-oriented Food Logging for Nutritional Management

Abstract

We propose a recipe-oriented food logging method that records food by recipe, unlike the ordinary food logging method that records food by name. We also develop an application RecipeLog for this purpose. RecipeLog can create a "skeleton recipe,"which is a standardized recipe representation suitable for estimating the nutritional value of a dish. This is represented by a list of ingredients linked to a Nutrition Facts table and a flow graph consisting of cooking actions such as cutting, mixing, baking, simmering, and frying the ingredients. The recipe log allows recipes to be written with fewer operations by editing only the differences from the already registered base recipe. Experiments have confirmed that the recipe log can effectively identify differences in recipes from household to household. The future work is to construct a multimedia recipe dataset consisting of structured recipes and their images using RecipeLog.