Samsung Electronics announced new features and updates for its AI-powered food and recipe platform, Samsung Food at IFA in Berlin, to celebrate its first anniversary.
Since its debut at IFA last year, Samsung Food has garnered over six million users, becoming an essential tool for meal planning and cooking. The platform’s most popular features include Recipe functions, Shopping List, and Meal Planner.
“In combining our staple kitchen appliance innovations with new AI technologies, we’re able to simplify everyday experiences such as the process of making dinner,” Samsung Australia vice president of consumer electronics, Jeremy Senior said.
“Currently, Australians spend up to 20 hours per week on household tasks including building shopping lists and researching recipes. Unsurprisingly, nine in 10 Australians have told us they’re interested in kitchen technologies that assist with meal planning and prepping. Samsung Food helps Australians rediscover their passion for cooking by making meal planning and preparation easier, so they can spend more time on the things they love.”
Samsung Food is a holistic food platform available on various Samsung devices, including and beyond home appliances. Samsung Food+, the premium subscription service, elevates the experience by integrating a health profile and goals, providing personalised meal plans with recipe recommendations.
Samsung is rolling out Vision AI technology for Samsung Food+, allowing users to add items to their Food List by taking a photo of food items with a smartphone. This functionality means that owners of a Bespoke refrigerator with Family Hub screen without AI Vision Inside can now also add items with photos to their Food List.
Other benefits of the Samsung Food+ subscription service include automatically adding purchased ingredients to the Food List when users check out at the store or online and search for recipes based on the contents of the Food List. Users can also receive alerts to help them use the items before the manually set use-by-date, helping reduce food waste.
Samsung Food+ provides meal plans based on users’ Food List to support sustainable food practice goals by personalising each plan based on the ingredients in Food Lists. With the new ‘Search with Your Food List’ feature, recipes using the ingredients listed in their Food Lists will show on top of the search results to help with ideas on what can be made. Recipe recommendations are also provided based on the Food List.
Samsung Food now features enhanced tools designed to support users to better maintain their health and reach wellness goals. The platform provides nutrition-focused meal plans that track and monitor calorie intake within daily meal schedules.
It offers ‘Tailored for You’ plans, delivering weekly recipe and snack recommendations based on users’ nutritional needs, chosen diets and previous recipe preferences. The system tracks macronutrient intake within daily meal plans and allows customisable calorie and macronutrient targets for individual health objectives.