Snapchat's In-App Camera Can Identify Food and Post Link of Recipes You Can Try

Snapchat's camera can now recommend recipes to the subscribers based on the food that they've scanned.

The Food Scan feature is the latest addition to the social media app's scan functionality, which lets users identify dog breeds, plants, and clothes.

Snapchat Food Scan Feature

Now, scanning food will give you recipes that include whatever you just scanned. You will also be given a link to the Wikipedia page for the complete ingredient, according to Engadget.

Snapchat has teamed up with allrecipes.com to power the feature. The website can recognize more than 1,200 food, and it can suggest almost 5,000 recipes.

The Verge was able to preview the feature, and Snapchat's food scanning abilities were mostly spot-on. The feature was able to identify a list of food and recommend relevant recipes. For example, if you scan a persimmon fruit, you will be given a recipe for a persimmon bar.

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Like most of these visual search features, though, it is not entirely foolproof. It will suggest cherry recipes if you scan a bag of cherry tomatoes, according to AdWeek.

However, not every food can be scanned properly. For example, a ginger may be scanned as a reptile, no matter what angle you hold your camera.

The feature is not meant to scan packaged food because Snapchat already has a separate feature that can scan packaged food and show its nutritional info.

However, even if there are limitations, it is still a great feature that you can use when you want to try something new or if you run out of ideas in the kitchen.

Snapchat Can Scan Wine Labels

Snapchat also added wine labels to its visual search lineup earlier this year. The app's camera can now scan wine labels and packaged food so you can get the nutritional info and tasting notes of the said items, according to Food Network.

The features are the same as those that you would find in standalone food and wine apps. Just point the camera at the package's barcode, and the app will display the basic nutritional details. It will also analyze its relative health benefits with the help of Yuka, a nutrition app.

Also, when you scan a bottle of wine, you will get a pop-up from wine app Vivino with a price, rating, and a couple of tasting notes.

Snapchat has been building its camera-based features for the past few years now. Aside from the new wine and food label scanning feature, you can also use the in-camera to identify different dog breeds and names of plants. You can also solve math problems, review Amazon products, and look for music via Shazam.

The features may not be necessary or may not be linked to an app known for face filters, but the scan feature is part of Snapchat's plan to make its camera more useful as it builds an augmented reality platform.

In July, Snapchat's Disney filter became a hot topic online and is one of the most popular filters of the app. The said Zoom subscribers could also use Disney filter as background.

Snapchat has updated its system earlier this year, but it had a couple of issues as the app kept crashing, as stated by the users.