Nosh Technologies

nosh is an artificial intelligence based food management mobile app[14][15][5] for reminding the expiry or best before date of food products, aiming to reduce food waste in the household.[16] It aims to reduce food waste[14] in the household by noting the bought food items and their respective expiry dates, and then creating an alert system to notify the user before the food products expire.[17][18][19] As part of the initiatives taken on the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste to reduce food loss and waste, the app is suggested alongside Too Good To Go and OLIO among many others.[20][21][22]

Nosh Daily is the blogging, news and media content provider for the food industry, aiming to raise awareness of what's happening around the world.[2][4] Nosh daily started as a companion blog to the Nosh app as reported by TechCrunch, however, now, it aggregates news from different platforms besides providing content by its own editorial team.[5][4] Somdip Dey is the Editor-in-Chief of Nosh Daily.[23]

Nosh Shop is a service that enables users to buy food that might go bad soon at a discounted price while donating a portion of the sales to hunger-related charities. Nosh Shop was unveiled at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 and TechCrunch reported that the company claims to donate 3% of the service charge from the sales to charities combating food waste.[5] Nosh Shop is currently only available in certain cities and is not yet available around the world.[4]

Nosh app features an artificial intelligence based weekly analytics that learns about the user's food buying and wasting habits such that the user can make an informed decision on what food to buy next to reduce food waste and save money.[7][5] In 2021, Dey and scientists from Nosh Technologies and the University of Essex developed an intellectual property named FoodSQRBlock using blockchain, QR code and cloud computing to digitize food supply chain data to improve traceability of food by the farmers and consumers. FoodSQRBlock also aims to improve food safety.[24][6] Entrepreneur magazine reported that Nosh Technologies has developed a blockchain based multi-layered framework named SmartNoshWaste using reinforcement learning based machine learning to reduce waste in the food supply chain.[25][26] SmartNoshWaste was published in MDPI Smart Cities journal and as of March 2022, it is one of the most viewed articles of the journal.[27]

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2021,[28] Nosh Technologies attended the TechCrunch Disrupt, where they announced the launch of a new feature called nosh shop. The company also announced another feature called nosh daily.[5][13] During Dey's pitch on the nosh app at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021, Shelly Hod Moyal, CEO of iAngels, criticized the app as a "nice to have" app rather than something that makes a difference in food waste.[28] Moyal said at TechCrunch Disrupt:

First of all, I think the vision is very worthy. I mean, there's a lot of waste out there. And there are a lot of people that want to that need to eat. I think that for this specific product, they need to think about how they turn their solution into something that's just nice to have. I mean, understanding what are your expiry dates? Or what are the different things that you can do with your mayonnaise before you throw it away? to something that actually makes a difference?[28]

— TechCrunch