DISH4U A Crowd Source App for Guiding Users Towards Healthy Food

This paper reports on the DISH4U, a mobile app designed to guide the users towards healthy foods with a special focus on Finnish market. The application makes use of the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare (THL) nutritional database Fineli to determine the nutritional content of the food. Besides, the app takes into account user’s profile in terms of food preferences, health and sport activities, and then elucidating the user about nutritional content of food served at selected restaurants as well as providing healthy recommendations available at nearby restaurants.