Dietary recommendation based on recipe ontology

Abstract

It is known that unhealthy diet, irregular life, work pressure and other factors can result in a number of diseases. Diabetes mellitus, peptic ulcer, and gastro-enteritis are just a few examples. To reduce these diseases, diet management is becoming an indispensable part in our daily lives. The main purpose of this study is to build a diet management system that can provide the user's correct nutritional information based on recipe ontology. In this paper, we construct a recipe ontology that defines various food nutrients needed for healing some common diseases, and an inference engine that can, given the user's health conditions as well as his/her preferences, recommend a proper recipe based on the recipe ontology.