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of patients in care facilities suffer from malnutrition due to poor monitoring, prevention and portioning.
of food served is wasted because meals are not personalized to residents’ needs: preferences, portions, or diet.
Manual or visual estimations are slow, unreliable, and rarely turned into usable data.
Other digital tools are complex, hardware-dependent, and unfit for daily meal operations.
with an easy mobile app for meal recording. Once at service, only when not finished after.
food intake on photos and calculate missing portions.
on nutrition, preference trends & food waste, dish performance...
Skeal brings professional serving meals, a unique capability to have a real-time analysis of one of your main areas of expenditure—catering.
Using AI that accurately measures what each guest actually eats, we transform every meal into actionable data.
This information feeds into powerful tools for nutritional prevention, menu personalization, and food waste & satisfaction optimization.
Conducted in a geriatric hospital unit, our 2 pilot projects with the CHPG - Monaco’s public hospital enabled us to quickly integrate the constraints of the staff responsible for serving and clearing away meals :
Situation - Service to patients in room (tray) + dining
Need - Track food consumption to offer better care
Solution - Hands-free, Assisted Meal recording app
Outcome - improved information flow for nutritionists
Improvements - A further simplified user interface to accelerate recording.
Within a group of 22 senior residences (EHPAD), we were able to test Skeal with the staff of a city center facility in the dining room working close to the kitchen and the caregivers :
Situation - Service to resident in dining room
Need - Track food performance & wastage
Solution - Assisted Meal recording app
Outcome - Improved information flow for managers
Improvements - Low bandwidth features, substitute dishes management.
As part of the ANR ERMES project, we wanted to assess the food consumption of students (around 300) eating lunch in the cafeteria at several schools in the Île-de-France region. In order to address the methodological challenges associated with recording and quantifying food consumption, we chose to collaborate with Skeal.
This technological approach relies on a standard off-the-shelf tablet that makes it easy to collect data from photos of trays and automatically perform nutritional analysis. By automating these processes, we saved many hours of work that would have been required for manual consumption analysis.
It is worth highlighting the personalized support provided by Skeal, which enabled us to have a user-friendly application specifically tailored to our needs.
Noémi Berlin, Economist, Research Officer
For nine months starting in November 2025, researchers from the CNRS will photograph children's meal trays served in the cafeteria before and after consumption at nine primary schools. Individual and personal follow-up will be carried out afterwards to measure:
- the consumption rate by type of dish, particularly fruit and vegetables,
- the most and least popular dishes,
- other indicators will be measured by the scientists.
To install the Meal recording application, you need to use a mobile tablet, whether Android or Apple, equipped with a back camera with fairly recent features and performance. In this case, it's more practical to use a magnetically-attached table stand as shown in our illustrations, which are available from many internet marketplaces.
In an other hand, you would be asked to upload and keep updated at least two files from your information system :
- your residents table,
- your menus and food items or dishes.
Menu data can be read from a single PDF to populate the dish table in Skeal. Similarly, the portion or nutritional values of each dish can be filled in by the AI, if they are missing on your side.
At Skeal, we harness the best in generative artificial intelligence models to deliver the finest results you deserve.
Thanks to our experience, we have incorporated to our recording tools, our prompt ingineering and AI fine-tuning processes, all the biases you might encounter when measuring unstructured data sources such as plates or food trays. Our results are then less dependent on what your staff will have to adapt in their field practice, or what you will have to correct visually afterwards as other solutions :
- Skeal ability to accurately measure the food portion to be eaten between 2 photos = over 87%
* The statistics come from a proof-of-concept study carried out in a French EHPAD in 2024 over a 1-week period, measuring every dish served at lunch to 30 residents. As a result, 738 dishes were analyzed.
On request, we offer motivated early-adopters the opportunity to test Skeal free of charge for a period defined together. It's important to us that you are supported in embedding your data efficiently, that we validate with you the effective installation of your tablet application and photo support, so that we can then stay in touch and examine together how you generate relevant data on the food consumption of your residents or guests. Please don't hesitate to contact us to get your free early access and support.
For groups of facilities, what's important is how to implement a new digital solution into structured, well-established practices, how to integrate it into the information system to circulate important data seamlessly with other management and intelligence tools, and finally how to deploy such an effective monitoring solution to the greater part of the organization. At Skeal, we have experience of such integration and training projects, and we also offer large companies progressive contracts based on a decreasing unit price for meals analyzed, progressing in increments according to the number of sites equipped and the number of residents/patients monitored daily.
For us at Skeal, you should pay for what you use, and we should grow with you as you expand your use of Skeal: from people to be monitored for nutrition, to every meal served for efficiency. In this way, you'd be able to take action for the well-being of your residents, while achieving a significant return on your investment in sustainability.
At Skeal, we innovate to help healthcare establishments manage nutrition and reduce waste, improving catering performance.
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