Personalized Nutrition Counseling Expert System

This paper gives an overview of the MenuGene nutrition counseling expert system and its main components, focusing on home health monitoring / dietary logging. Pub- lished solutions so far can satisfy nutrient constraints, but does not take harmony rules into account. The novelty of the algo- rithm used by MenuGene is that dietetic knowledge including harmony rules can take part of the menu synthesis process. Our results show that a considerable part of dietary counseling can be extended by computer aided approach, if we provide easy to use interfaces for patients and dietetic experts. Accord- ing to our tests with volunteers an average logging accuracy of ca. 15% can be achieved with our Dietlog web interface.