What would be the best way to deliver nutrition to the 7.1 billion odd people on this planet? Science would tell you that it is not the animals. Researchers at the Not Company (NotCo) which is a food-tech startup based at Chile have developed food products that is no longer based on animal ingredients but entirely based on plants. They use machine learning technology to develop tasty, nutritious and affordable plant-based food. However, the food looks and tastes like the classic (animal-based) food. This concept has been around for 10 years and one of the reasons for its failure is that people still prefer locally produced food.
What then makes the Not company products special? Founders Matias Muchnick (Engineer), and Karim Pichara (Harvard research associate), along with biochemist Isidora Silva have built an artificial intelligence model named “Giuseppe” that is programmed to become the smartest food scientist on earth.
“Giuseppe” uses deep machine learning techniques to understand food at a molecular level, it also learns the human perception of taste, flavour and texture of specific foods and develops a data set. Now, using the algorithm called Giuseppe, they recreate clever plant-based recipes that emulate the taste, flavour, texture of an animal-based product. For eg. food products like milk/cheese whose texture, flavour and taste is like milk, but is actually a bunch of plants that is mixed together to replicate the nutritional and sensorial experience of dairy milk, thus making it sustainable/vegan!
Meet the world’s smartest food scientist : GIUSEPPE [BiotechIn.Asia]