Smartphone camera used to estimate vegetable taste.

Smartphone camera used to estimate vegetable taste. Makuta Amenity Co developed a smartphone application that enables to estimate the taste and nutrients of vegetables and fruits just by taking their pictures with a smartphone camera. 

 The application analyzes the images of the external appearances of agricultural products such as vegetables and fruits. 

It creates histograms of the three primary colors of visible light and estimates the taste of the targeted agricultural product based on the correlation between the histograms and taste data that has been quantified by using a taste sensor in advance. 

As a taste sensor, Makuta Amenity used a system developed by Intelligent Sensor Technology Inc, a venture firm that develops taste sensors. Japan