Informed Diet Selection: Increasing Food Literacy through Crowdsourcing

The Internet offers plenty of options for those who want to lose weight. Choosing among the practically unlimited number of weight loss diets, exercises, and pills, advertised as borderline magical, is however challenging. We present The Diet Explorer, a crowd-powered, knowledge base that can be queried in real-time to discover weight loss diets that best match personal needs. Our long-term goals are to help people in making better-informed dieting decisions and ultimately reach more satisfactory diet outcomes.