AKALA Food Search Engine

Akala is a food search Engine helping people with particular food diet to identify food that they eat based on their personalized profile. The application could help alerting the user with the presence of inconvenient ingredients even in a foreign language while traveling. In addition of  large data base of products which could be updated by users, Akala  includes a large data base of dishes, so he could log the  quantity of food he is eating and its nutritional aspects. We are also planning to includes AI based solution to recommend most suitable dishes to eat based on his daily based food consumption.

According to a poll conducted by The Harris, 60% of American have restrict to at least one nutritional component and 87% are making an effort to eat healthy. This could be due health issues(allergies, diabetes, diet,...)  personal convictions (Vegeterians, Vegans,...) or religious restrictions (Muslim, Hindo, Jewish,...). 

We estimate that at leat 40 percent of the world population will need our solution.

We are serving people who care about their food diet.

Akala is crowd based food search engine helping people with particular food diet indentifying food they can eat. We provide a web plateform where the user can create a profile based on his food preference and language to help him identifying potential problem with packaged food he is planning to purchase.

Existing solution do not take consideration of the language barriers and do not cover all cathegories of food restrictions

Our solution solve a real global customer need. We are using crowdsourcing to creat a huge data base of packaged food content as well as food dishes. We are also trying to use AI as well IoT in the form of pocket size weight scale to measure the exact quantity of consumed food and to suggest to consumer which food to eat and at which quantity 

I come out with the idea of this project  based on personal experience living in Tokyo for seven years. Since I did not master Japanese language I have faced many problem with the other Muslim and Hindo comity members as well as persons suffering from allergies to identify food suitable for us. So I have conducted with a Japanese team a survey to confirm such a need.

We have conducted a pilot on few hundred and now we are preparing for big pilot in Tunisia to analyse allergy problem in partnership ANPR Tunisian research agency, CRNS digital research center in Sfax and CBS Biotechnology research center Sfax

Our goal that our solution reach hundred thousands of potential users within next years in Tunisia, USA, UK, France, Germany and Japan.

Within five years we aims to reach one billion potential users

My main problem is to get enough funding to hire more full time engineers,  pay cloud hosting and promote the solution

Participating in contest and accelerators, fund rising.

link to website below did not work 

www.akala.cc

the new mobile application link should be availabe again soon in google play under Akala food search engine

2 full time 

Mohamed Kharrat, CEO  PhD univ of Tokyo from department of applied computer Science

Mahdi Kharrat COO BS in Marketing MS in Quality univ of Sfax

2 part time

Abderrahmen Masmoudi Full stack developper 

Mariem Baklouti Agro food Engineer

6 interns in design, marketing and IoT

We have multidisciplinary team with technical , business and  health experts

Digital Research Center Sfax CRNS SFAX (largest ICT research center in Tunisia)

Biotechnlology research center CBS SFAX

Natinal Research Promotion Agency ANPR Tunisia

Advertising healthy food based on customer health conditions an needs, selling optional pocket size weight scale for food as well as body weight scale which could be synchronized automatically with the app.

Selling diet service tracking solution for nutritions centers, hospitals and medical experts.

currently we are supporting the projects from personal saving grants and love money however now we are getting in shortage of money so we are open to either grants or investment 

to get exposure, connection with investors

US government healthy food promotion

WHO new health policy 

mit AI research 

google search engine optimisation 

by using AI to recognize most suitable dish and food to eat based on person daily food eating track records and behavior 

Most of the time we select the food we are planning to eat based on our emotion and not rationally. AI could help us selecting the most suitable food to eat.

Our solution could help  promoting healthy food culture in cities 

This prize could help us keeping the health information of each user in server based on ethical regulation of his country.

We will try to use best in class development methods and security services to ensure these constraints