How big data is revolutionizing the food industry

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https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/02/big-data-revolutionizing-food-industry/


The food industry is by one of the largest and most vital industries in the world because everyone needs food for survival, people eat everyday and most of us thoroughly enjoy eating. So, it is normal that the food industry will use big data to understand their consumer more for increasing efficiency and create new recipes to try. Below are some examples of big data in the food industry.


  • Bacon 

Bacon has always been a versatile ingredient. It fits with any meal or even great by itself, it also can add on almost everything from soup, salad, sandwiches and burgers. However, our obsession with bacon seems to have been put on a new level with bacon in desserts and cocktails. A data mining project analyzed this obsession to see that bacon could improve the rating of burgers or sandwiches.

  • Creative recipes made by data

IBM researchers have created a computer program that generates original recipes. It works five steps to ensure that the new recipe is creative. First, the program will ask you to set some parameters for the type of recipe by selecting an ingredient, a regional cuisine and type of dish. Second, computers analyze a collection of data that includes relationships of ingredients and the molecules and chemical compounds in each ingredient. Third step, the computer generated new ideas. Fourth step, select the best idea based on novelty and quality. Last, recipes are created and tried in the kitchen.

  • Improved efficiency 

Each restaurant  is looking for how they can use big data. McDonalds, for an example, has been actively pursuing a data driven culture by turning to trend analytics to better understand what is happening in each restaurant, and to identify best practices to improve restaurant overall.

Comments

  1. MidoriJune 25, 2020 at 6:08 AM

    I really did not know that Big Data and other computer programs can make the original recipes by collaborating their own cooking knowledge and perhaps the recipes that we always use for our meals. By using the Big Data to recreate the new recipe, maybe we can find the incredible discovery, for example, some European vegetables could low key match some Japanese local dishes, or the ingredient of the dishes that we usually eat could be mismatched because of the scientific nutrition.

    If I am the owner of the restaurant like Denny’s that kind of 24 hours breakfast restaurant, I would use Big Data and analyze which time zone the customers seem to visit the restaurant first, and think about how we can reduce the unnecessary electricity and food costs, for example, in order to avoid over-ordering and over-preparing ingredients.
    And also in order to reduce labor costs, adjust the number of employees during the hours with the most customers and during the hours with the fewest customers.
    And also can analyze the food menu, which dish is the least ordered food and the most ordered food, then we can make some improvement of the menu, or which generation of people likely to order which kind of food, and can produce some timely discount or some coupon by ages.

    Relay on the recent computer programs, we could use Bid Data programs for many kinds of purposes. It is now a useful tool not only for companies but also for our daily lives.

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