Morph My Food



Five students from Imperial are taking part in a competition, called ‘Thought For Food’, against 9 other leading European universities. The aim of the challenge, set up by Syngenta, is to find innovative ways to help feed the world’s predicted 9 billion people by 2050. Each team must create a project that can be implemented at a local level.

The team was selected from multiple disciplines from across the university, with two undergraduates and three postgraduates involved.

The Imperial team has chosen to focus on reducing food waste by creating a Smartphone application called ‘Morph My Food’ to help students reduce their food waste. It works by the user inputting the food items they have left in their fridge at the end of the week (which they would otherwise throw away) into the application which will then generate recipes that use those food items. This will help students reduce their food waste and save money!

‘The issue of food waste is crucial as, in the UK alone, 30% of food is wasted every year. If we can reduce this staggering figure, we will be able to increase the amount of food and help reduce hunger. We need all Imperial students to help us turn our idea into reality by sending us simple, creative and fun recipes that we can use for the application. The more recipes we receive, the more effective our application will be. Send us your recipes through the ‘Morph My Food’ Facebook page, Twitter@MorphMyFood, and website http://www.morphmyfood.com/ ‘