Improved Samsung Food raises the bar for culinary experiences at IFA 2024

Kitchen

Newly added Samsung Food features help you easily stick to your daily diet and achieve wellness goals based on your food list and personalized recipe recommendations

Samsung Food+ with Vision AI recognizes ingredients in photos taken with a mobile phone and adds them to the grocery list shared with the Family Hub™ screen

29.08.2024

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announces new features and updates for Samsung Food¹ — a personalized, AI-powered food and recipe platform — is celebrating its first birthday, all of which will be showcased at IFA 2024. Since its debut at IFA last year, Samsung Food has gained over six million users,² is becoming an indispensable tool for meal planning and cooking in the modern household. The platform’s most popular features include recipe functions, shopping list and meal planner.

“As people look to get more out of their food using their appliances, we are excited to upgrade Samsung Food with several powerful new features,” said Moohyung Lee, EVP and Head of Customer Experience Team for the Digital Appliances Business at Samsung Electronics. “Going forward, we will continuously improve the platform with AI and other technologies to support the preparation of simpler, more hassle-free and healthier meals, with a focus on the user experience.”

Benefit from tailor-made culinary experiences

Samsung Food is a holistic food platform available on various Samsung devices, including home appliances. Samsung Food+, the premium subscription service³ by Samsung Food enhances the experience by integrating a health profile and goals and providing personalized meal plans with recipe recommendations. And now AI is being added to provide differentiated features for users around the world.

Samsung is making meal prep more convenient by introducing Vision AI technology for Samsung Food+, which allows users to add items to their meal list by simply taking a photo of their food with a smartphone. This feature means that users who own customized refrigerators with a Family Hub™ screen can⁴ without AI Vision Inside – the internal camera that detects food being put in or taken out of the fridge – can now easily add items with photos to their grocery list.

Other benefits of the Samsung Food+ subscription service include automatically adding purchased ingredients to the grocery list when users pay in-store or online, and finding recipes based on the contents of the grocery list. Users can also receive alerts to help them use up items before the manually set expiration date, reducing food waste.

Samsung Food+ also offers meal plans based on users’ grocery lists to support sustainable eating goals by personalizing each plan based on the ingredients in users’ grocery lists and prioritizing those that are nearing their expiration date. And with the new “Search with your grocery list” feature, recipes using the ingredients listed in their grocery lists will appear at the top of search results to give users ideas of what to make with what they have. Recipe recommendations are also provided based on the grocery list. And whatever was used from the grocery list will be recommended to add to the shopping list. This smart approach helps maintain inventory and reduce food waste while ensuring fresh, tasty meals.

▲ Samsung Food search with items from the user’s grocery list

Achieve health goals with personalized nutrition plans

Samsung Food now offers enhanced tools to help users better maintain their health and achieve wellness goals. The platform offers nutrition-focused meal plans that track and monitor calorie intake within the daily meal plan, be it for recipes or individual foods. It offers “tailored to you” plans⁵provides weekly recipe and snack recommendations based on users’ nutritional needs⁶chosen diets and previous recipe preferences. The system tracks macronutrient intake in daily meal plans and enables customizable calorie and macronutrient targets for individual health goals. While Samsung Food users receive recommendations three days a week, paying and subscribed Samsung Food+ users benefit from a full week of recommendations, with the intelligent platform also taking into account the manually set best-before dates of ingredients.

▲ Samsung Foods “Tailored for you” meal plan service

Now available in eight languages ​​in 104 countries,⁷ Samsung Food ensures that all updates are available in all eight languages ​​and availability regions.