The Food Recognition Assistance and Nudging Insights (FRANI) App, developed in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Plant Village, and Penn State University is a new artificial intelligence (A.I.)-assisted mobile phone application, which seeks to fill in gaps in knowledge regarding foods and tracking food-group consumption, providing diet-related statistics, and gamified nudges to improve dietary behavior, Ghana News writes in a description of the application.
Dr. Aulo Gelli, a senior research fellow at IFPRI said the “Nudging for Good” (an interdisciplinary collaboration between the International Food Policy Research Institute, Plant Village at Penn State University, the University of Ghana [Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research], the National Institute of Nutrition and the Thai Nguyen National Hospital, both in Vietnam), project team validated FRANI for dietary assessment in adolescent children in Ghana and Viet Nam against weighed records, the gold standard for dietary assessment, and the standard multi-pass 24-hour-recall method.
Republished by The Ghanian Standard.
Also, watch this episode on Ghanaian television, covering the FRANi study: