TEDx Talk: Leveraging food for better health through data-driven approaches
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Leveraging food for better health through data-driven approachesArticle elaborating the idea presented in the TEDx talk
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Image Credits: Chloe Cushman
Image Credits: Chloe Cushman
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Why do we eat what we eat?
Why do we combine ingredients
in our recipes the way we do?
Food Pairing Hypothesis
Ingredients that taste similar tend to be used togetherin traditional recipes
Ahn et. al, “Flavor network and the principles of food pairing”, Scientific Reports (2011).A Jain, NK Rakhi, G Bagler*, “Spices form the basis of food pairing in Indian cuisine”, arXiv:1502.03815 (2015).
Recipes & Ingredients2543 Traditional Indian Recipes (TarlaDalal)
Regional cuisines: Bengali, Gujarati, Jain, Maharashtrian, Mughlai, Punjabi, Rajasthani, South Indian.
fla•vor = smell + taste
Olfactory
Gustatory
Fenaroli’s Handbook of Flavor Ingredients
𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝐶𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒
Western Cuisines
Ahn et. al, Sci.Rep. (2011)
Uniform Food Pairing
Indian Cuisine
Jain et. al, PLoS ONE (2015)
Contrasting Food Pairing
‘Contrasting Food Pairing’ in Indian Cuisine
A Jain, NK Rakhi, G Bagler*, “Spices form the basis of food pairing in Indian cuisine”, arXiv:1502.03815 (2015).
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Original recipes
Herb
Plant
Diary
Cereal/Crop
Nut/seed
Plant derivative
Fruit
Vegetable
Spice
Spices are key to the food pairing in Indian cuisine
A Jain, NK Rakhi, G Bagler*, “Spices form the basis of food pairing in Indian cuisine”, arXiv:1502.03815 (2015).
A Jain, NK Rakhi and G Bagler*, arXiv (2015); A Jain, NK Rakhi and G Bagler*, PLoS ONE (2015).
Best of 2015MIT Technology Review
Molecular Essence
Novel Recipe Generation
Food Formulations
Food-Beverage
pairing
Hypothesis Testing
Nutri-Genomics
Food-Disease
Association
ED Sonnenburg and JL Sonnenburg, Nature, 528, 484 (2015).Zeevi et al., “Personalized nutrition by prediction of glycemic response”, Cell, 163, 1079 (2015).
Design personalized diet to
lower glucose levels
Gut Microbes
Body Mass Index
Blood tests
Questionnaires
Food diary
Personalized Nutrition
The discovery of a new dish confers
more happiness on humanity, than the
discovery of a new star.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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as seen in the canteen of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, circa 1998
To know about the questions pursued in our lab and opportunities, please visit: http://cosylab.iiitd.edu.in