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Samsung has released its AI app with recipes

Given Samsung’s widespread presence in kitchens through smart refrigerators and other appliances, releasing a cooking and recipe search app seems like a logical step for the company.

Samsung has launched the Food app – “a personalized cooking app with artificial intelligence-based recipes” – in eight languages and 104 countries. It builds on the Whisk food database that Samsung acquired a few years ago, and is reminiscent of the version of Whisk that the company introduced last year. Given Samsung’s widespread presence in kitchens through smart refrigerators and other appliances, releasing a cooking and recipe search app seems like a logical step for the company.

The app allows users to search for recipes, save them and make weekly meal plans. The company has prepared more than 160,000 recipes for the launch of the app and the number is expected to grow in the future. Samsung Food can also run on cell phones and Samsung Family Hub appliances such as refrigerators, allowing users to manage ingredients, purchases, etc.

Users can save recipes at any time, and the app analyzes them, standardizes the format and organizes them to create ingredient-based shopping lists. It can also make recipe recommendations based on available food items. The app even has a “Recipe Personalization” feature that uses artificial intelligence to modify recipes and create vegan or vegetarian versions, for example. Users will even be able to create “fusion” recipes, such as Korean versions of Italian dishes, and adjust cooking times or skill levels, Samsung writes.

Artificial intelligence is used to create recommendations for customized meal plans for each day based on dietary preferences and favorite dishes. Nutritional information about ingredients can be viewed at any time, and users can add products to shopping lists and then send them directly to online stores. The Connected Cooking feature allows users to preheat ovens, set timers and transfer cooking settings to supported appliances in a step-by-step guide.

Samsung said last week that it hopes to attract one million users worldwide to the app. While there are many cooking and recipe apps (Mealtime, Paprika, Yummly, etc.), Samsung may have an advantage due to the millions of smart appliances sold.

Samsung plans to add new features as well, such as integration with Samsung Health to synchronize metrics like BMI and calorie intake, and offer diet recommendations. By 2024, artificial vision technology will be built into the app, allowing Samsung Food to recognize food using the camera and provide detailed nutritional information. Samsung Food is already available for download on Android and iOS.