LogMeal Food AI Engine

LogMeal is the food intelligence brand of AIGecko Technologies S.L., a University of Barcelona spin-off publicly launched in 2021 and based in Igualada, Barcelona. It turns food images into structured nutrition and operational data for digital health products, nutrition professionals, hospitals, care homes, researchers and foodservice operators, replacing slow manual food diaries and observation.

The Food AI Engine is a REST API that detects food in an image, recognises multiple dishes, returns ingredients, quantities and nutrition, and builds intake histories, nutrition plans, diet labels and recipe recommendations. Related products include a Tray Recognition AI Engine for hospital and canteen trays, a Nutrition Management Platform for professionals, a white-label app and a self-checkout kiosk. The technology draws on computer vision and deep learning research.

• Multiple dish recognition: detects food regions and recognises several dishes in one image.
• Nutrition and ingredients: returns ingredients, quantities and nutritional information with multilingual responses.
• Intake monitoring: tracks intake history, remaining daily intake and meal occasions.
• Personalised recommendations: nutrition plans, diet labels, food restrictions and recipe or dish suggestions.
• Food quantity and waste detection: estimates portions and leftovers from images.
• Ecosystem products: tray recognition API, professional platform, white-label app and food recognition kiosk.

• Vietnamese health and insurance apps adding photo-based meal logging for diabetes and weight programmes.
• Hospital nutrition departments and industrial canteens measuring tray intake and leftovers.
• Universities and research institutes collecting structured dietary intake data for nutrition studies.

• Faster product development: a documented API removes the need to build food recognition and nutrition layers in-house.
• Personalised nutrition workflows: intake history, daily goals, diet labels and recipe recommendations support tailored programmes.
• Clinical-grade options: deployments can be configured for GDPR and HIPAA workflows with EU or US data residency on Google Cloud.
• Low-risk trial: new members can test the full API free for 30 days, up to 200 queries.

Photo-based food logging is replacing manual diaries in digital health, clinical nutrition and research, but accuracy of portion estimation remains a key buyer concern. Hospitals and care homes also need automated intake monitoring to manage malnutrition and food waste. Asian cuisines with mixed dishes make multi-dish recognition and multilingual output important for apps targeting Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

AIGecko Technologies S.L. is a University of Barcelona spin-off publicly launched in 2021, with its registered address in Igualada, Barcelona. LogMeal won the EIT Food Foodvalley 'Personalised Nutrition for All' challenge and first place in the MetaFood CVPR 2026 challenge. Organisations listed on its site include Nestle, Unilever, EIT Health and several universities.