LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 For CSU Long Beach student Naveen Palanisamy, finding ways to eat a healthy meal with limited options is a busy schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know how student life is,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are very busy, and we are also very tight on our budgets, so some days I even skipped meals, or I just relied on cheap fast food.\u201d<\/p>\n
Palanisamy is an international student and took a marketing class. That\u2019s where he came up with the idea to create an app that will help students and others who rely on food donations to improve their nutrition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He came up with the NourishU AI app, which uses artificial intelligence to find healthy recipes with whatever options someone might have at their disposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The National Institutes of Health stated that only 19% of college students in the U.S. eat a balanced diet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Palanisamy said with NourishU AI, that could improve. You can take a picture with your phone of your food product, and the app does the rest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI say add to my pantry,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s gonna move it to my actual kitchen, and then from here, I can generate recipes.\u201d<\/p>\n
NourishU also takes your information, like height and weight, allergy concerns, and dietary preferences, to help find a recipe that works for you.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CSU Long Beach student Amit Kumar co-founded the app and works on the technical operations. The AI-app can pick up on any recipe available on the internet, even in real time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor example, some Mexican mom created some food, which was new to the world,\u201d Kumar said. \u201cOur model is able to proceed with that recipe also, because it will go on the internet on a today basis, and take the recipe from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Around 75% of college students skip meals because of a lack of time, according to the National Institutes of Health. NourishU helps to solve that problem by including recipes that can be cooked quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe app is like, ok, you have 5 minutes of time,\u201d said. Riya Bhatia, who\u2019s also a founder of NourishU and a student at CSU Long Beach. \u201cI\u2019m going to give you a two-step recipe.\u201d<\/p>\n
As AI continues to evolve and become more mainstream, businesses have been slow to adopt the technology. Roughly 14% of U.S. businesses have fully adopted the technology, according to a report by Yahoo! Finance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wade Martin is a professor of economics at CSU Long Beach and the director of the Institute for Innovations and Entrepreneurship. He said he\u2019s encouraging college students to embrace AI.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we focus on is how to leverage it,\u201d Martin said. \u201cCreate something worthwhile, create something that\u2019s going to help benefit society.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what Palanisamy said he\u2019s aiming to do.<\/p>\n
He wants people who might not have access to healthy food options to see what they can do with their options in order to eat a more balanced diet.<\/p>\n
\u201cGovernment food banks, pantries, third-party charitable programs, food banks and make sure all the pantry users are effectively utilized by the people,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd turn them into healthy nutrition.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 For CSU Long Beach student Naveen Palanisamy, finding ways to eat a healthy meal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16493,16492,7,15,1570,59022,131,133,132,5999,136,5996],"class_list":["post-433155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-app-education","tag-app-health","tag-california","tag-education","tag-health","tag-jas-kang","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-socal-what-you-need-to-know","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}