On September 23, at the 17th China Nutrition Science Congress, the Nutrition and Health Model NutriMeta 3.0 was officially launched. This initiative was jointly led by the Nutrition Big Data and Health Branch and the Nutrition and Health Food Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society, along with partners such as Baidu and Ant Medical Health. The project brought together top scientific research institutions, universities, and enterprises from across China.

A strong alliance of academia, research, and industry was formed. The project gathered core forces in nutrition and artificial intelligence, with participants including the National Institute for Nutrition and Health of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Peking University, Fudan University, and over 20 other entities such as Baidu, Ant AQ, Institute for AI Industry Research at Tsinghua University, Yihai Kerry, and Amway. This collaborative effort established a robust framework for joint construction.

AI Empowers a New Era in Nutrition and Health. Professor Sun Guiju, Deputy Director of the Nutrition and Health Food Branch of CNS, introduced that NutriMeta 3.0 will construct an open platform through the integration of industry, academia, research, and application model. The model will continuously iterate, expand data scale, enhance prediction accuracy, and improve language comprehension capabilities to serve the multi-level needs of research, industry, and the public.

Artificial Intelligence + Nutrition Initiative. The model will accelerate the intelligent transformation and upgrading of nutrition science, empowering product innovation and business model transformation, and unleashing immense potential in fields such as health management and clinical nutrition. As technical support representatives, Bangni Yingce and Baidu elaborated on the application prospects of the model: For researchers, it serves as an efficient research assistant, supporting literature mining, evidence integration, and proposal generation; for the public, it becomes a personal nutritionist, providing lifelong health management; and for manufacturers and organizations, it acts as an intelligent decision engine, aiding in product development and group nutrition solution design.

The construction of NutriMeta 3.0 is based on over a decade of accumulated achievements, including the NutriData Comprehensive Information Platform, Food Composition Database, Nutrition Knowledge Graph, and Nutritionist Intelligent Agent, laying a solid foundation for the model.

Professor YANG Yuexin, President of the Chinese Nutrition Society and President of the Federation of Asian Nutrition Societies, emphasized that the construction of the nutrition model is highly aligned with the Healthy China strategy and digital trends. Moving forward, it is essential to strengthen data supply, coordinate computing power, and build an application environment, uniting industry forces to open up new pathways for the development of the nutrition and health industry.