Innovative Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Driving The Plant-Based Food Revolution

How is plant-based food considered a tech trend?

Plant-based food options have been available for decades – so what’s the catch?

Technology trends – like artificial intelligence (AI) – have changed the game for plant-based foods. AI makes it possible to create cheaper, tastier, and more ethically-produced options for consumers.

The most popular case of AI being used in plant-based food production is Chilean-based startup NotCo. The startup uses AI (or machine-based learning) to identify vegetables that will most closely resemble the molecular structure of the dairy or meat it will replace.

The company calls its software ‘Giuseppe’.

The idea is that each plant-based alternative will look, taste, and feel like the popular products it replaces.

Mayonnaise made from plant-based foods and oils will have a similar taste and texture to dairy-based mayo. In other words, Giuseppe – the AI software – makes it easy to give up meat and dairy products, if cost, taste, and texture are the reasons not to.

Why bother using AI technology for plant-based food?

According to the company, its technology is important for more than food variety or animal welfare alone.

It says: “Until today, maintaining a system based on animal husbandry and production, using a third of land uninhabitable by humans and emitting more Co2 than all means of transport combined, are killing our planet.”

“And as if that were not enough, obesity, heart problems, cholesterol levels, and all that entails this Western diet is brought about by the simple fact that healthy food is not accessible.”

“If we continue the same, by the year 2030 we will have a 15 percent probability of being able to feed our population. How does it change if we change the animal production by vegetal production?”

“We would have a 100 per cent chance of doing it. That’s why NotCo is born.”

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/09/10/ai-food-production/