Mobile phone snaps tell Big Macs from broccoli

A team at the University of Tokyo in Japan has come up with a way for our cameraphones to help us eat a balanced diet. Techradar reports.

"The researchers have developed image-recognition software that can tell meat and potatoes from fish and rice and can ignore any non-food items in an image, the point being to establish what food groups are present in a meal merely by analysing a photo of it.

The idea is that users take a snap of whatever they eat using a camera or cameraphone and have the software keep a meal diary what they've been consuming. Accuracy is claimed to be around 90 per cent."

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