Menu Recommendation System Using Smart Plates for Well-balanced Diet Habits of Young Children

Abstract EN

A well-balanced diet habit of a wide variety of foods and adequate nutrition can help to maintain proper growth and healthy life for young children.

In Korea, young children aged 3 to 6 years use their own plates to eat lunch served in the kindergarten or childcare facilities.

In this paper, we propose a smart plate that can easily measure how much food children have eaten.

The smart plate has five load cell sensors to measure the weight of five places.

Using them, the amount of food intake can be determined by measuring the weight of food before and after meals, respectively.

This helps to know which foods young children prefer and which foods they do not prefer and identifies nutritional deficiencies in them.

In addition, long-term accumulated data can be used to predict the growth index of young children.

Finally, menus are recommended based on the nutrition facts consumed on a monthly basis by analyzing nutrition ingredients that were insufficient or excessive for children.