Eating, how do smart health connected objects influence our meals?

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We all eat at least 3 times a day, and eating has become much more than a necessity, it is now a pleasure, even an art for some. Technological or scientific advances have profoundly changed the way we eat in history. Today we live in an era where new technologies are taking over our daily lives: everything becomes smart health connected, food and cuisine included, facilitating access to gastronomy. But how do smart health connected objects influence the way we eat? Looking too much for ease, will we be witnessing the end of the gastronomic art?

Some have a bite to eat, stuff themselves, nibble, while others cook, taste and enjoy. If everyone eats in their own way, everyone eats several times a day. And if gastronomy speaks more to some people than others, everyday cooking concerns us all, Greedy that we are. Our kitchen is not immune to the surge of smart health connected objects, and if our fridge today allows us to take selfies, let's rather take an interest in those objects that make our lives easier and allow us to do away with the scorched and burnt crusts. other spoiled meats. Well almost … It's not Chef who wants.

Organic scanners sit at the table

Not so fresh fish, a little too ripe fruit … we all encountered these little difficulties that prompt us to call the pizza delivery man. What if you could know everything on your plate? To avoid unpleasant surprises, portable scanners invade our plates. The trend seems to be long term, and is likely to be more than just food. The portable scanner Scio (“To know” in Latin) will bring you knowledge. It uses a smartphone application to analyze different types of food or medication. It will therefore be enough to scan what we are about to eat to know the quality of the product.

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The trend is to analyze our small dishes, other organic scanners have appeared. PERES is specially designed for analyze the freshness of the pieces of meat. Point it at your steak, press the button, and receive everything you need to know about it on your smartphone. For its part, TellSpec makes you feel guilty by determining the number of calories on your plate.

Coupled with other technological innovations, you will now be able to control everything you eat. These smart health connected organic scanners promise a good future for dietary monitoring, but not only! These small devices should democratize to reach all areas. Determine the alcohol level of a drink to avoid unpleasant surprises at the wheel, make sure of the authenticity of a prescribed medication, and even check the purity of the diamond that Mr. claims to have brought back from Swarovski.

If we can now analyze what will end up in our stomachs, there is no doubt that we will start to do the difficult ones. The results after having scanned his burger could thus put off more than one, and one can wonder about the future of fast food and “junk food”. Deal for the consumer! Restaurants and other food companies may be forced to provide unprecedented food quality. Nowadays, very few people have fun reading the food labels of products, but with these new technologies, everyone's curiosity will be tickled and their requirements will be increased. It's the food industries' turn to follow our future expectations and complaints.

Put the small dishes in the big ones

Balancing your diet is a challenge that few manage to meet. If some of them are doing brilliantly, junk food is waiting for us all around the corner, so stay focused (and smart health connected) with SmartPlate ! The photo sensors and the database of this smart health connected plate study our meals to help overweight people.

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If the plate is not enough for you, you can always equip yourself with smart forks : HAPIfork helps you manage and regulate your dietary habits, whileAromafork will diffuse aromas during your meal.

Certainly they are gadgets, but they are part of a process and a desire to medical monitoring. We don't all eat the same way, we don't all gain weight the same way either. If some people may find the concept of a fork that diffuses aromas of chocolate ridiculous instead of crunching directly on a tablet (why pretend to eat something that you don't really eat?), Some devices are created to improve the general living conditions of people with reduced autonomy for example. So, Liftware is a special spoon, made for epicureans with Parkinson disease. Indeed, Liftware stabilizes itself to minimize the effects of tremors in sick people.

An invention of this type then takes on more meaning, because it finds a real usefulness: it helps sick people to eat better. These smart health connected cutlery are a tool, help for people who need it. However, new technologies are now moving more and more towards the goal of making life just easier for everyone. A fork that warns you when you eat too fast or too fat makes public opinion unanimous, but a spoon that only makes an artificial taste or aroma raises debate about its usefulness.

As you can see, smart health connected objects take possession of your entire kitchen, and we don't stop them any more. Smart stove (Pantelligent), smart health connected scale (Cooking Connect by Tefal) or high-tech coffee maker (Firebox), the possibilities are endless, and we have not finished changing our way of eating. But with so many innovations and possibilities in such a short time, it's all our way of eating that is turned upside down, even when we are not behind the stove.

Eating in the 21st century

If restaurants or other cafes ride the wave of social media to attract customers (several cafes offered free WiFi in exchange for a Like on Facebook) or even to make themselves known (The Picture House restaurant in London organized a day where customers could pay their bill by simply posting a nice photo on Instagram), many people take advantage of technological innovations to eat from health home. Applications, virtual reality, videos, all means are good for learning to cook!

Young people are the most affected by the phenomenon of social media. Few teens don't have accounts, at least on Facebook, and the most addicted post multiple photos, videos, or snaps on Instagram or Snapchat every day. Everyone knows this particular friend who spends more time photographing his dish than eating it. This practice raises many debates. On the one hand, an American study shows that posting a photo of his dish on the net and receiving Like or positive comments would make it more appetizing. On the other hand, some psychiatrists do not hesitate to mention a eating disorder.

Scientists say celebrating before sharing a meal (singing happy birthday, saying a prayer, or sharing a photo) would better savor it. Valerie Taylor, head of psychiatry at Women’s College Hospital at the University of Toronto disagrees. For her, taking excessive photos and sharing meals (a practice called food porn) would demonstrate an eating disorder:

The regulars of foodporn would they be obsessed with food at a pathological level? Or do they just see themselves as good living?

However, this excessive practice and this need for sharing should not be confused with the pleasure of cooking. If it is entirely understandable to want to share the dish that it took 3 hours to prepare, many doubt the interest that can bring a photo of his fried burger on Snapchat.

For those who want to cook with the times (or who are afraid of staining Granny's cookbook), there are a number of apps available.

After the Tinder dating app, the cooking recipe app Tender will allow you to swipe (sweep) recipes that are not yours and to match (select) those that catch your eye. No chat function here, but lots of ideas to draw on to diversify your meals. Same system for QOOQ, the high resistance smart health connected tablet in the kitchen that offers recipes and other chef techniques.

Finally, for the most motivated, the famous Google Glass coupled with an application AllTheCooks allow total monitoring of the preparation of his dish, and probably a next recording and sharing function.

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Cooking is good, you say, but for lazy people and for those who don't have time to cook small dishes? Do not panic, we are in the 21st century: you can order your dinner at the touch of a button. Domino’s Pizza sets up theEasy Order Button, already used by Amazon. This new technology will probably soon be adopted by most restaurants and other fast food or delivery services, as its use is simple.

Even better, in Mumbai the pizzeria Francesco had the idea ofuse a drone to deliver pizza. The idea may sound crazy, but it is feasible since last year, a drone delivered a pizza to a customer located 1.5 kilometers from the pizzeria. However, this delivery was made without the permission of the city of Mumbai. If it was only a Review flight, it does not prevent that this method could become more widespread in the years to come.

Pizza aficionados will soon no longer be able to console themselves by saying that they still walked 200 meters to the pizzeria. All these apps and gadgets are there to make everyday life easier, but a life where everything falls into our hands as soon as we ask it would most likely hamper our autonomy. Facilitating access to food appears to be a positive thing, but new technologies and other smart health connected objects should perhaps not be confined to improving the lives of people for whom the idea of ​​smart health connected eating comes from luxury, and not d 'a necessity.

As a result, science and new technologies are also addressing the problem for years to come, and smart health connected objects could represent the future and mark the end of cooking as we know it.

What future for our stomachs?

What are we going to eat in 30 years? Experts say that food habits in 2050 will depend less on meat, and more on… insects! What will epicureans revel in three decades? Let’s take a leap back in time, and look at NASA’s energy bars, seaweed and other custom 3D menus.

In the future, will we still be sitting around a table enjoying a family meal? Will the overpopulation of the planet force us to change our diet? Should we all become vegan?

The teacher Yoram Kapulnik, director of the Volcani Center (an agrifood research organization) plans to:

Customized food of the future could come from natural sources, but also from 3D printing technology. It could be a key point in the process of making food accessible to all.

If the use of 3D printers to eat in a personalized way seems attractive, these will remain expensive, and unthinkable for the Third World. Experts believe developing countries will have to rely on compact food, the same kind of rations used by NASA astronauts, concentrated energy bars and dehydrated cookies to aid nutrition in countries where the number of undernourished is increasing.

Nutrition experts all agree that it will be necessary to find substitutes for our limited sources of animal protein. The solution would be under our noses: insects. While there are no small animal critters yet, some Israeli companies have already started to market insect products. Another alternative would be algae which contain more calcium, protein, iron, vitamins, minerals, fiber and other antioxidants than any vegetable. Aquatic plants can be cultivated and would represent the ideal non-animal source that would benefit everyone while minimizing environmental damage.

In the end, nothing lets us know in detail what the future will be like, but it is undeniable that, if technology has such a big impact on how we eat today, future technologies will face the challenge of feeding nearly 9 billion people within 30 years.

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