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FoodWiki: a Mobile App Examines Side Effects of Food Additives Via Semantic Web

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In this article, a research project on mobile safe food consumption system (FoodWiki) is discussed that performs its own inferencing rules in its own knowledge base. Currently, the developed rules examines the side effects that are causing some health risks: heart disease, diabetes, allergy, and asthma as initial. There are thousands compounds added to the processed food by food producers with numerous effects on the food: to add color, stabilize, texturize, preserve, sweeten, thicken, add flavor, soften, emulsify, and so forth. Those commonly used ingredients or compounds in manufactured foods may have many side effects that cause several health risks such as heart disease, hypertension, cholesterol, asthma, diabetes, allergies, alzheimer etc. according to World Health Organization. Safety in food consumption, especially by patients in these risk groups, has become crucial, given that such health problems are ranked in the top ten health risks around the world. It is needed personal e-health knowledge base systems to help patients take control of their safe food consumption. The systems with advanced semantic knowledge base can provide recommendations of appropriate foods before consumption by individuals. The proposed FoodWiki system is using a concept based search mechanism that performs on thousands food compounds to provide more relevant information.

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  1. http://foodbabe.com/2015/01/06/read-ingredient-lists/

  2. http://www.foodmatters.tv/

  3. http://www.w3.org/RDF/, 1999.

  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Article_Number_%28EAN%29

  5. http://foodmatters.tv/articles-1/top-10-food-additives-to-avoid

  6. http://www.tarim.gov.tr/Sayfalar/Eng-1033/Anasayfa.aspx#

  7. http://www.w3.org/Submission/SWRL/

  8. http://protege.stanford.edu/download/protege/4.3/installanywhere/Web_Installers/

  9. http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/6u7/index.html

  10. http://clarkparsia.com/pellet/

  11. http://www.tarim.gov.tr/Sayfalar/EN/AnaSayfa.aspx

  12. http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en

  13. http://www.semantica.com.tr/en

  14. http://www.acibademinternational.com/

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Initially, the first stage of the research project was funded in 2013 by TUBITAKFootnote 12 (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) – 1512 Progressive Entrepreneurship Support Program (Project No: 2120357, “Semantic-based Personal Safe Food Consumption System for Allergic Individuals via Smart Devices”) by the Semantica Trd. Ltd. CoFootnote 13. The initial proposal of the first stage project is presented in [9, 10]. After that, another project as an extension of the first stage project was funded again by TUBITAK- the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey toward the end of 2014. It is titled “Artificial Intelligence-based Mobile System for Conscious Food Consumption through Ontology” and recorded with the project number 3140417 in cooperation with Semantica Internet and Software Services Trd. Ltd. Co. and Acıbadem Hospitals GroupFootnote 14 in consultation with Asst. Prof. Dr. Duygu Çelik. Copyrights of the Food Ontology Knowledgebase (FOKB) and FoodWiki system are reserved by Semantica Internet and Software Services Trd. Ltd. Co.20 and Acıbadem Hospitals Group21.

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Çelik Ertuğrul, D. FoodWiki: a Mobile App Examines Side Effects of Food Additives Via Semantic Web. J Med Syst 40, 41 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-015-0372-6

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