Create Recipes From Photos With RecipeGen

What Is RecipeGen?

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Imagine you’re at a restaurant, served a drool-worthy meal. Instead of just savoring the experience, snap a quick photo, and let RecipeGen do the rest. SideChef's advanced AI will analyze the image and generate a guided recipe that’s almost identical to the original dish.

Each recipe includes:

• A matching title that reflects the dish
• A complete ingredient list
• Step-by-step cooking instructions

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Even better? With the SideChef app, you can shop all the ingredients in just a few taps, making meal preparation effortless.

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How It Works

Watch how it works in this short video below.

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It’s a simple 3 step process to generate a recipe from a food photo in seconds:

1. Take or upload a photo of a dish from your camera or photo library.
2. RecipeGen’s AI analyzes the image, whether it’s from a high-end restaurant, your own home-cooked meal, or even a social media screenshot.
3. In seconds, you receive a step-by-step guided recipe tailored to your uploaded dish, making it easy to cook and shop for ingredients.

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What Are The Results?

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Users who have engaged with GenAI on the SideChef app show a 6.5x higher retention rate compared to those who haven't. This means RecipeGen not only enhances the cooking experience but also keeps users coming back for more delicious creations.

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“Users of GenAI have 6.5x better retention than users who had not used Gen AI on the SideChef app”

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While some ingredients remain challenging to differentiate, the context in which they appear often helps with accurate identification. For instance, in many cases, our tool successfully distinguished between goat cheese and feta.

It even amazed us by correctly identifying a tiramisu as vegan. That one blew our minds - could it recognize ingredients beyond our human capacity?

We had an independent journalist, Amanda Smith from CNET, give it a try. She wrote the article Tired of Eating Out? I Tried This Recipe-Generating AI Tool to Create a Restaurant Meal at Home. Although she didn't always get perfect matches (it missed things like a strawberry butter), she often got close, with recipes having up to 90% ingredient match. As she states:

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"It's a handy little app that could be used to inspire new ideas and ingredient concoctions or if you're in a restaurant and don't want to bother the waiter with dish details."

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Why Embed RecipeGen In Your App Or Website?

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For food businesses, whether you're a CPG brand, a retailer, a food media site or app or a kitchen appliance brand, embedded RecipeGen as a feature in your platform will benefit your users, but also your business.

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Benefits For Users:

• Save Your Favorite Meals - Turn your favorite meals into interactive cooking experiences. It’s never been easier to generate a written recipe of a dish you just made or consumed at a friends place or a restaurant. You can adjust it where needed to perfectly match the dish, but 80% or more of the work has been done for you.
• Find Inspiration Anywhere - No matter where you are, any delicious meal can be saved in one place, simply be snapping a picture of the dish.
• Effortless Shopping - Ingredient lists automatically turn into online carts at your favorite retailer.
• Effortless Cooking - No more guessing ingredient proportions or cooking techniques, with step-by-step mode you get each step described in detail, with automatic serving size adjustments for easy prep.
• It’s Just Fun! - Let’s face it, trying out this tool and seeing how closely it matches to the original picture is just a whole lot of fun. Over 89% of our users report they get a highly accurate match. 

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Benefit For Your Businesses:

• Innovation Leadership - You get to stay ahead of your competition with cutting-edge image recognition and AI-driven recipe generation.
• Enhanced Customer Experience – Engage users with an interactive tool that brings them closer to their favorite dishes. With recipe platforms striving to boost engagement, this could be exactly what you need to keep users on your platform longer.
• Grow Through Word of Mouth – A tool so impressive, users won’t stop talking about it.
• Build Community – Enrich your content library with user-generated recipes and shared experiences

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Try For Yourself?

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Curious to see how it works? Next time you're at a restaurant or scrolling through mouthwatering food photos, put RecipeGen to the test. We’d love to see what you create!

📱 👉 Download SideChef for Android 

📱 👉 Download SideChef for iOS

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Want to offer this to your users too? Contact our team to learn how you can integrate RecipeGen as a feature in your recipe app or website.