The Food Programme: Food and AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already having an effect on food retailing - whether through self-service checkouts or the algorithms that determine which recipes are presented to a person online or the way supermarkets are using it to predict the next big food trend. Jaega Wise heads to the Waitrose Headquarters in Berkshire to find out how their product development team is using AI to inform which ingredients they stock on the shelves. She also talks to the firm Tastewise, which makes software that calculates food trends by analysing social media and online menus