Thirty-seven Middle School in Bozhou, Anhui Province introduces AI intelligent "health station" to realize personalized campus meals

China News Service, Bozhou, September 12 (Jiang Wanqi) The bell rang at noon on September 11, and students from No. 37 Middle School in Bozhou City, Anhui Province rushed to the cafeteria. Li Han, who was in the second grade of junior high school, stood in front of the AI ​​​​intelligent "Health Station" smart terminal and stuck out his tongue at the screen. A physical report popped up 2 seconds later.

The screen prompted him to go to the special dining area to choose dishes. When picking up meals, the smart weighing equipment automatically identifies the dishes and measures them. "What they recommended to me was apples, pork ribs and fried lettuce." Li Han said.

On September 11, students at No. 37 Middle School in Bozhou City, Anhui Province underwent physical fitness testing at the AI ​​intelligent "Health Station". The picture shows Li Han (first from left) undergoing physical fitness monitoring. Photo by Jiang Wanqi

As the world's capital of traditional Chinese medicine, Bozhou has become the world's largest trading center for traditional Chinese medicine and the country's largest production base for traditional Chinese medicine pieces, extracts and health drinks. The concept of "medicine and food come from the same source" is deeply rooted in people's daily diet. Nowadays, AI is quietly coming to the "diagnosis table" of campus meals, giving this ancient wisdom a new way to open up.

"After students scan their faces, the system automatically identifies nine physical types based on tongue and other images." Shi Xishen, secretary of the Party branch of Bozhou No. 37 Middle School, said, "The system will recommend dishes based on personal physique, and students can also choose according to their own preferences. This can avoid waste and help achieve nutritional balance."

Huang Xiaoxia, a parent of an eighth-grade student, said frankly that she used to cook meals at home and deliver them to her children every day. "Now is the time when children are growing up, and their daily consumption is also very large." Now she can see every purchase of her children, what meat and vegetables they eat, and where the ingredients come from in the mobile app. "The average meal is about 10 yuan. I can see all the nutrients in the food, and I feel relieved," she said.

In the back kitchen, the cooking robot is accurately controlling oil and salt according to the preset program. "Students should not consume more than 6 grams of salt per meal, and no more than 15 grams of cooking oil, and the error should be controlled within 0.5 grams." Xu Wei, director of the software department of the Technology R&D Center of Bozhou Smart Health Technology Co., Ltd., said, "The AI constitution identification results will be matched with the nutritional knowledge map and the traditional Chinese medicine diet rule engine. For example, yam, millet, chicken, and red dates are recommended first for qi-deficient constitutions, and for damp-heat constitutions, reduce fried spicy food, increase barley, and winter melon, etc."

"Traditional medicated diets are difficult to choose, find, and match. AI solves this problem. It makes the traditional medicated diet concept of 'adapting to time, place, and people' very novel and direct." Huai Kai, secretary-general of the Anhui Medicinal Diet Research Association, suggested that the next step is to develop more medicated diet products that are suitable for different physiques and are delicious and good-looking. "Tasty is the basic condition of medicated diet." He said.

Sun Jiehong, deputy secretary of the High-tech Industrial Development Zone Branch Committee of the Bozhou Municipal Education Bureau, said that this exploration on campus is not a simple equipment upgrade. "Everyone is no longer satisfied with eating well, but wants to eat right and nutritiously." He said that he plans to conduct big data analysis on a one-month cycle, "and then test and analyze again after one month. Adjustments will be made based on changes in students' physical constitution to achieve the purpose of 'long-term farming'." (End)