A step forward in food science, technology and industry using artificial intelligence

As same as the priority and importance of food for being alive for humans, its science play also a significant role in the world. So, food science, food technology, food industry, food processing, human nutrition, functional food, and nutraceuticals dominate daily life to have a healthy lifestyle. Before all of them, agriculture has provided primary necessities for food products. In the agricultural stage, the elimination of hazardous chemicals and micro-organisms is vital. In the next step, in food processing, several criteria should be checked to have a qualified food product, such as food quality and food safety. Furthermore, evaluating food intake supports nutrition-related aspects of diet. Nowadays, the implementation of cutting-edge technology, artificial intelligence (AI) especially machine learning (ML), with both advantages and disadvantages, in different academic and industrial fields is popular. Food science and technology and the related issues are no exception to this rule. Improving agriculture, facilitating crop classification, developing formulation, and new food and nutraceutical-related products, more accurate sensory evaluation, industrial processing, increasing food quality, ensuring food safety, managing the supply chain, reusing waste, and finally estimating calorie and nutrient amounts are some achievements of combination of food science and artificial intelligence (AI). Accurate sensory evaluation is particularly done utilizing electronic nose (E-nose), bio-electronic and electronic tongue (E-tongue), and machine vision. Assaying artificial intelligence algorithms in agriculture, food science, and nutrition could lead to an intelligent from-farm-to-fork cycle also a significant improvement in this scientific breakthrough.