TE-FOOD was invited to a consortium of companies to take part in an R&D project with one of the main goals to develop a meat quality checker mobile app for consumers. The consortium won a national grant of over 1 million USD in Hungary.

The goal

Often people face the dilemma that a previously bought (and maybe unfreezed) meat is still recommended to consume or not.

The core aim of the project is to develop a method and tools which can be used by consumers to determine if a meat is edible by using their mobile phone.

There is a decent research literature about the meanings of colorization and surface alterations of meats. Basically this is what many people do automatically every day before starting to make a meal. They visually check the meat‘s color, surface, consistency, the smell, the information on the label, compare against their knowledge and experience, and they decide if the meat is edible. However, most people don’t have the necessary knowledge and experience.

We believe today’s technologies can help these people.