NutriTrack: Android-based food recognition app for nutrition awareness

One of the emergent concerns of human life is about health and wellness. Undeniably, health and nutrition are one of the valuable aspects of life. Thus, technological innovations to help enhance and even promote health awareness is essential. With the advent of mobile computing, it is much easier to be aware of health information because of its mobility and availability. Much mobile application is being developed to serve as a tool for health monitoring and nutritional guide. Mobile applications have the ability to support health needs like detecting heart rate, classifying food, and many more. Taking advantage of technology, utilization of it hereby addresses certain issue and problems of human life, especially in health. In this study, the researcher's attempts to design and develop an Android-based food recognition application that could be used as a health awareness tool for non-health conscious individual. The application lets the user take the photo of the food and show its nutritional contents. Implementing Mifflin-St Jeor method in determining daily calorie consumption, users shall be aware of their required calorie intake. Moreover, the researchers' have studied its effect on people's health awareness on food nutrition by the randomly selected respondents. Finally, this paper presents an analysis of the impact of the food recognition app to change people's concept of food nutrition.