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– All objects absorb and reflect light. A hyperspectral camera can record how light moves in hundreds of wavelengths, and then deduce an object’s chemical structure. Technology tells us so much more about the quality of a food than what our eyes can ever pick up, ” says Gustav Nipe, the co-founder of Impact Vision, a svenskgrundad startup based in California.

Yes, sure, it sounds a bit Star Trek to be able to analyze a food item only via a photograph. But actually it is not so difficult. For the results of the analysis can be likened to a fingerprint and just as with the police, the result can be compared with a large register in which information is stored about what differentiates a ripe avocado from an unripe. There is such a record of foods that Impact Vision today work at when it comes to hyperspectral image analysis.

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But what would you use this technique, in addition to which help to a perfect guacamole to Friday myset? Well, the Impact Vision’s hope is that the technology should be used to get to the bay with the large food waste that occurs in the day, where individuals and stores throw away food that is completely edible.

– today quality control of meat by checking the ph and it is done via random sampling, which literally sticking a needle in the flesh. But through spectral image analysis, can the livestock industry to quickly keep track of all his inventory and grocery shop can easier sort out the bad products from their shelves.

in recent years, more and more people are waking up to the wrong play with the labeling in the food industry and it is also an area where hyperspectral image analysis can help. For using the information from the analysis you can quickly find out if the fish marketed as fresh actually been frozen, or if it really is beef in a frozen mikrorätt.

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” With our technology, you could easily have detected and prevented the well-known hästköttsskandalen, where the checks found traces of horsemeat in frozen lasagne. For horse meat absorbs the light in a completely different way than beef, it had been labeled directly.

Hyperspectral image analysis has as I said many years ago, and the technology becomes increasingly cheaper to produce, but despite the fact it is an all-in-one-scanner, pocket-size, not reality, yet.

– the Prototype for the reading of the ph of the meat is hopefully ready for sale in november, and in February we hope to have a similar product for the avocado. If the development continues, however, should not be too long before this technique can be adapted to a mobile phone, ” says Gustav Nipe.