Personalized AI Meal Planning for Chronic Care Patients
Learn how Brainy Neurals transformed chronic care meal planning with an AI-powered app that delivers doctor-safe, personalized recipes based on users’ medical conditions, dietary needs, and available kitchen ingredients simplifying daily life for patients managing complex health challenges.
Industry- Healthcare | Diet & Nutrition | Chronic Disease Management
Business Impact
- Made meal planning faster and easier for patients with chronic diseases
- Improved user satisfaction with personalised, safe recipes
- Reduced confusion and stress in daily cooking decisions
- Provided a scalable solution for health apps, clinics, and nutrition platforms
Problem
Patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, or kidney disorders struggle to design meals that meet strict, and sometimes conflicting, dietary restrictions. Without nutrition expertise, planning safe yet enjoyable meals becomes stressful, leading to poor diet adherence and compromised health.
Challenges
- Managing conflicting dietary rules when a patient has more than one health condition
- Accurately reading ingredients from typed lists or fridge photos
- Creating recipes that match medical restrictions and cultural food preferences
Solution
Brainy Neurals built an intuitive AI-powered meal planning platform where users input their medical conditions, dietary types, and available ingredients or upload images of their fridge contents. The system intelligently interprets these inputs to:
- Recommend personalized recipes safe for their condition(s), prioritizing doctor-uploaded guidelines when conditions have conflicting requirements
- Provide two recommendation modes:
- Recipes using only existing ingredients with direct YouTube tutorials
- Ideal recipes requiring additional ingredients, along with shopping links for easy purchase
- Allow users to regenerate recipe suggestions if they prefer alternative meal options
The platform combines NLP for disease-diet parsing, computer vision for ingredient detection, AI-powered dietary logic, and seamless third-party integrations into a single user-friendly mobile application.
Technologies
AI Recipe Recommendation Engine | NLP | OCR & Computer Vision | YouTube API | Online Grocery Integration | Responsive Mobile Application
Results
- Delivered personalized, doctor-compliant meal suggestions for multi-condition users
- Increased diet adherence and daily confidence for chronic care patients
- Simplified meal preparation with integrated video guides and shopping links
- Offered a scalable solution for wellness providers to enhance patient support and satisfaction
