Tech firm wins backing for diabetes food plan project

A BIRMINGHAM tech firm has won a global competition aiming to find digital solutions for managing type 2 diabetes.

Whisk has been chosen by Swiss healthcare company Ascensia Diabetes Care to create a personalised food plan for people with the disease and has been awarded €100,000 to develop and build the technology.

Whisk, which is run by former Apprentice contestant Nick Holzherr (pictured), has invented ‘Culinary Coach’.

The product uses artificial intelligence to provide personalised food recommendations based on flavour preferences and food avoidance and will be expanded to use blood glucose data for people with diabetes and make food recommendations tailored to their own condition.

The Culinary Coach for diabetes will start by providing personalised recipe recommendations and will in the future be developed to suggest conveni- ence foods and restaurant options.

Whisk is a nutrition platform that currently enables users to browse recipes based on factors such as personal taste and budgets then add a recipe to their meal plan which can be added to an online shopping retailers.

Michael Kloss, chief exec of Ascensia Diabetes Care, said: “The panel of judges and I were hugely impressed by Whisk’s current tool and how they plan to develop it for people with type 2 diabetes.” cart at grocery