Live technology demonstrator

Nutrition intelligence,
grounded in evidence.

ELIA turns complex food-composition data into clear, personalized guidance—combining conversational AI, specialist nutrition skills, and an iterative meal-planning engine.

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ELIA AI editorial cover showing a balanced meal connected to nutrient data points
ELIA AI / Everyday Lifestyle Intelligent Assistant InnoLabs · Digital Health

THE CHALLENGE

Nutrition advice is everywhere. Context is not.

Food decisions are still made from fragmented information: generic advice, incomplete labels, inconsistent recipe data, and search results that rarely understand a person's health context.

Authoritative food-composition datasets hold the detail needed for better decisions, but they are difficult for non-specialists to use directly. ELIA bridges that gap, translating structured nutrition evidence into an accessible conversation.

Instead of relying on free-form model output alone, the platform connects AI reasoning to concrete foods, nutrients, recipes, and dietary rules. The result is guidance that is easier to understand—and easier to trace.

“The ambition is not to hide the data behind AI, but to make the evidence usable.”

ELIA project principle

FROM DATA TO DIALOGUE

A clearer way to ask about food.

ELIA makes nutrition information conversational while keeping retrieval, reasoning, and explanation as distinct parts of the system.

You

Build a high-protein lunch for Type 2 Diabetes, with plenty of fiber and no shellfish.

ELIA

I'll compare suitable recipes against your preferences and condition-specific constraints, then refine the options before presenting the strongest matches.

SPECIALIST CAPABILITIES

One assistant.
Focused skills.

A Skill is a dedicated capability for a particular medical condition, therapeutic diet, or nutrition objective. It gives ELIA a focused workflow—not just another generic prompt.

01 Condition-specific

Type 2 Diabetes

A workflow oriented around carbohydrate awareness, fiber, glycemic considerations, meal balance, and practical food substitutions.

Meal balance Carbohydrates Fiber
02 RDN workflow

Dialysis Nutrition

A focused capability that can account for context around potassium, phosphorus, sodium, protein, and fluid management.

Potassium Phosphorus Sodium

Skills are designed as decision-support capabilities and remain subject to expert review, safety boundaries, and individual clinical context.

ITERATIVE MEAL PLANNING

Search. Assess. Improve. Repeat when needed.

A single recipe search can return relevant results without returning the right results. ELIA uses a conditional loop to evaluate candidate meals and search again when the nutritional fit falls short.

  1. 01

    Interpret

    Goals, preferences, allergies, condition, and meal context.

  2. 02

    Retrieve

    Candidate meals found through structured and semantic search.

  3. 03

    Evaluate

    Nutrients, ingredients, dietary rules, and overall suitability.

  4. 04

    Refine

    Search again or adjust the set when stronger matches are possible.

THE FOUNDATION

AI that can show its working.

A

Structured nutrition data

Food composition, nutrient units, food groups, recipes, and dietary taxonomies provide a concrete evidence layer.

B

Hybrid retrieval

Lexical search, semantic embeddings, nutrient comparison, and reranking help connect a question with relevant records.

C

Modular architecture

The interface, AI orchestration, nutrition services, and data pipelines remain separate so each layer can evolve responsibly.

Food & recipe data Hybrid retrieval Specialist reasoning Clear guidance

CLINICIANS IN THE LOOP

Testing relevance, usability, and responsible boundaries.

ELIA is currently undergoing expert evaluation and testing by clinicians and nutrition specialists from the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy .

Their feedback informs the platform's nutritional relevance, explainability, usability, safety boundaries, and potential role in nutrition counseling and patient education.

Important distinction

This is an expert-evaluation pathway, not a completed clinical trial. ELIA is a decision-support and educational platform; it does not replace individualized advice from a qualified clinician.

WHY IT MATTERS

From nutrition science to everyday decisions.

ELIA shows how grounded AI can make specialist knowledge more accessible without obscuring the evidence beneath it.

  • For people exploring healthier food choices
  • For clinicians and nutrition professionals evaluating new tools
  • For researchers studying explainable AI in digital health
  • For product teams building responsible nutrition experiences
ELIA AI / LIVE DEMO

Ask a better question
about what you eat.

Evidence-aligned nutrition intelligence.
Designed for responsible decision support.

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