Developing Food Menu Recommendation System Based on Indonesian Nutritional Needs

Food is an essential part of our life. However, consuming food recklessly affects health problems. Therefore, controlling or monitoring food consumption carefully is crucial for maintaining health. This study focuses on recommending food menus for people corresponding to their nutritional needs. In particular, the study employs users’ age, gender, weight, height, and activity to determine their daily required nutrition. The study includes coefficient values calculated from the nutritional needs provided by the Indonesia Ministry of Health. Then, the daily required nutrition and the calculated coefficient values are utilized to recommend food menus accordingly. Our obtained results show that our system could appropriately recommend the food menus corresponding to users’ nutritional needs. In particular, our food menu recommendation system provides three menu options, in which each menu option consists of staple foods (grains), animal proteins, plant proteins, vegetables, and fruits. Since each menu option contains the same number of calories corresponding to the users’ nutritional needs, users can select any combination option menu without having worries.