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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111234
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iDietScoreᵀᴹ: Meal Recommender System for Athletes and Active Individuals

Author 1: Norashikin Mustafa
Author 2: Abdul Hadi Abd Rahman
Author 3: Nor Samsiah Sani
Author 4: Mohd Izham Mohamad
Author 5: Ahmad Zawawi Zakaria
Author 6: Azimah Ahmad
Author 7: Noor Hafizah Yatiman
Author 8: Ruzita Abd Talib
Author 9: Poh Bee Koon
Author 10: Nik Shanita Safii

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 11 Issue 12, 2020.

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Abstract: Individualized meal planning is a nutrition counseling strategy that focuses on improving food behavior changes. In the sports setting, the number of experts who are sports dietitians or nutritionists (SD/SN) is small in number, and yet the demand for creating meal planning for a vast number of athletes often cannot be met. Although some food recommender system had been proposed to provide healthy menu planning for the general population, no similar solution focused on the athlete's needs. In this study, the iDietScoreTM architecture was proposed to give athletes and active individuals virtual individualized meal planning based on their profile, includes energy and macronutrients requirement, sports category, age group, training cycles, training time and individual food preferences. Knowledge acquisition on the expert domain (the SN) was conducted prior to the system design through a semi-structured interview to understand meal planning activities' workflow. The architecture comprises: (1) iDietScoreTM web for SN/SD, (2) mobile application for athletes and active individuals and (3) expert system. SN/SD used the iDietScoreTM web to develop a meal plan and initiate the compilation meal plan database for further use in the expert system. The user used iDietScoreTM mobile app to receive the virtual individualized meal plan. An inference-based expert system was applied in the current study to generate the meal plan recommendation and meal reconstruction for the user. Further research is necessary to evaluate the prototype's usability by the target user (athletes and active individuals).

Keywords: Expert system; meal planning; sports nutrition; inference engine; design and development

Norashikin Mustafa, Abdul Hadi Abd Rahman, Nor Samsiah Sani, Mohd Izham Mohamad, Ahmad Zawawi Zakaria, Azimah Ahmad, Noor Hafizah Yatiman, Ruzita Abd Talib, Poh Bee Koon and Nik Shanita Safii, “iDietScoreᵀᴹ: Meal Recommender System for Athletes and Active Individuals” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 11(12), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111234

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title = {iDietScoreᵀᴹ: Meal Recommender System for Athletes and Active Individuals},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111234},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111234},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {11},
number = {12},
author = {Norashikin Mustafa and Abdul Hadi Abd Rahman and Nor Samsiah Sani and Mohd Izham Mohamad and Ahmad Zawawi Zakaria and Azimah Ahmad and Noor Hafizah Yatiman and Ruzita Abd Talib and Poh Bee Koon and Nik Shanita Safii}
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