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WHISK WINS
Ascensia Diabetes Care has revealed that UK-based Whisk have been
selected as the winner of the Ascensia Diabetes Challenge, the global
innovation competition that set out to find digital solutions to support
Type 2 diabetes management.
British-based Whisk's
winning innovation
is a Culinary
Coach that uses
artificial intelligence
(AI) to provide personalized food
recommendations that will be expanded
to use blood glucose data for people with
diabetes.
The Whisk nutrition platform enables
users to browse recipes based on
factors including their personal taste
preferences, time constraints, budgets,
dietary restrictions or allergies and even
the weather. Once a user adds a recipe
to their meal plan, it can be automatically
added to an online shopping trolley at
leading grocery retailers, allowing them to
seamlessly buy ingredients.
Learning curve
As winner of the challenge, Whisk plan
to create a personalized food experience
for people with Type 2 diabetes that will
learn from their blood glucose readings to
make food recommendations tailored to
their own diabetes. Using readings from
Ascensia's blood glucose monitoring
systems, the AI will learn how the user's
blood glucose readings react to specific
foods and recipes, allowing them to build
eating plans that can help to keep their
blood glucose in range. The Culinary
Coach for diabetes will start by providing
personalized recipe recommendations,
and will in the future develop beyong
cooking at home to suggest best-choice
convenience foods and restaurants.
Michael Kloss, CEO and President of
Ascensia Diabetes Care, said: "Nutrition
and food selection is a huge component of
Type 2 diabetes management. The panel
of judges and I were hugely impressed by
Whisk's current tool and how they plan to
develop it to empower millions of people
with Type 2 diabetes to make enjoyable
but healthier food choices."
WHISK-Y BUSINESS. Whisk's
good genome (above).