Snapchat has introduced a new camera-based analysis feature known as ‘Food Scan’ that will recommend recipes for whatever’s in your fridge.
Snap’s latest feature, in partnership with Allrecipes is aimed at helping users find recipe recommendations by scanning the ingredients they have at any given time.
How to Use Snapchat Food Scan
Snapchat’s Food Scan is not dissimilar to Google Lens in how it works. To use Food Scan all you need to do is:
- Open up the app
- Point the camera at your available ingredients
- Press and hold on the image to start scanning
- Sit back and let AI do the work
Once the results are in, you’ll see a neat carousel with recipe suggestions that include the food that you have scanned.
Explore More With Snapchat Food Scan
In conjunction to providing inspiration for your culinary choices, additional Scan options such as ‘Nutrition Scan’ gives you further insight into the health considerations of packaged foods, assisting you to make healthier eating choices.
Snapchat’s Food Scan will also give you food facts from Wikipedia, helping you to learn more about what you’re eating and expanding your recipe discovery.
However, the new feature is just that – new. And as such, it’s not perfect. There are limitations on how the platform can identify foods; the tool identifies half an avocado perfectly but a whole avocado deems unidentifiable.
The feature is also unable to identify quantities – if you scan one tomato it may recommend the recipe for a tomato pasta, which requires more than one tomato.
As time goes by, the limitations of the app should decrease and its functionality increase.
If anything, Snapchat’s Food Scan acts as a good source of inspiration which in itself is extremely helpful when facing the task of having to think of something to cook up.
