Implementation of a Goal-Oriented Recipe Recommendation System Providing Nutrition Information

Recently, the number of people who use recipe sites is increasing. Since professional knowledge of nutrition is necessary to decide daily recipes for improving health, it may be difficult for general users who do not have such knowledge to search for the right recipes. In this paper, we propose a goal-oriented recipe recommendation system that utilizes information about nutrition on the Internet. Our system enables users without knowledge about nutrition to search easily for recipes with natural language to improve specific health conditions. The natural language includes ´I want to cure my acne ´and ´I want to recover from my fatigue ´. We compared the results of our system to the results we obtained by calculating the nutrient information manually. Evaluation was done on 1000 dishes. We measured the effectiveness of the system using F-Measure and the average F-measure was 0.64 respectively.