Automatic recipe cuisine classification by ingredients.

ABSTRACTWith the growth of recipe sharing services, online cooking recipes associated with ingredients and cooking procedures are available. Many recipe sharing sites have devoted to the development of recipe recommendation mechanism. While most food related research has been on recipe recommendation, little effort has been done on analyzing the correlation between recipe cuisines and ingredients. In this paper, we aim to investigate the underlying cuisine-ingredient connections by exploiting the classification techniques, including associative classification and support vector machine. Our study conducted on food.com data provides insights about which cuisines are the most similar and what are the essential ingredients for a cuisine, with an application to automatic cuisine labeling for recipes.