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Healthy Food Recipes and Benefits
Healthy Food Recipes and Benefits
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In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
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by:
MAY 2021
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APPROVAL SHEET
This capstone project of A.J. A. Claudio, K.J. A. De Jesus, R.C. D. Pineda, and
J.C. V. Tiamzon titled “Healthy Food Recipes and Benefits Application”, which is
prepared and submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Bachelor
of Science in Information Technology, Major in Network Administration has been
examined and hereby recommended for approval and acceptance.
PANEL COMMITTEE
Alvincent Danganan
Chairman
Approved and accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Major in Network Administration.
<DEAN>
Dean, College of Computer Studies
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ABSTRACT
Insert your abstract here. This portion is not to be indented and should be clear, concise,
and complete. An abstract tells the reader the reason for writing the thesis or capstone
project, the current approaches and gaps in the literature, the different objectives or aims
of the research, the methodology used in attaining the objectives, the main findings, and
end it with the main conclusion including the implications of the research. Limit the
DEDICATION
gave their full support, patience, cooperation, and guidance to us to finish this study. To
our Almighty God, Thank you for showering us the strength, knowledge, wisdom, and
Teachers, who teaches and inspired us to do our best to finish this study. To our beloved
Parents and Family, Thank you for for your unending support and for understanding us
even in these trying days. To our Friends and Classmates, who gave love, cooperation
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We would like to acknowledge and give our warmest thanks to our mentors Mrs.
Theda Flare Quilala, Mr. Alvincent Danganan, Mr. Mel Johnson Aquino, Mr. Rojen John
Agustin and Mr. Christian Jacob Nunga who helped us through our project and made this
work possible. Their advice and guidance carried us through all the stages for doing this
project.
and support to complete this project. Without their guidance and motivation our project
We would like to express our sincere thanks to all the faculty members of the I.T.
Department of College of Computer Studies in Tarlac State University for the learning
experience and guidance from time to time, they guided us in the right direction to
We would also like to thank our classmates and friends without whose
cooperation this project would not have been a reality. Also, to our family who supported
us financially.
Finally, we would like to thank God, for letting us through all the difficulties specially in
this time of pandemic. We have experienced your guidance day by day. You are the one
who let us finish our project. We will keep on trusting you for our future.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL SHEET.............................................................................................ii
ABSTRACT...........................................................................................................iii
DEDICATION.......................................................................................................iv
ACKNOWLEDGMENT........................................................................................v
TABLE OF CONTENTS......................................................................................vi
LIST OF TABLES................................................................................................ix
LIST OF FIGURES................................................................................................x
1 INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................1
1.3 Objectives.................................................................................................................4
2 RELATED LITERATURE...........................................................................6
3 TECHNICAL BACKGROUND.................................................................13
4 METHODOLOGY......................................................................................16
4.1.3 Observation................................................................................................19
functional, repeated trial, accuracy, others> tests. This is objective number 2.........24
4.3.1 Functional Test <Replace this with whatever test you will use>................25
functional, repeated trial, accuracy, others> tests. This is objective number 2.........13
6.1 Conclusions............................................................................................................14
Write the general statement that says you achieved the objective here. Then
follows. There is one is to one correspondence with respect to the objectives and
conclusion........................................................................................................................14
6.2 Recommendations.................................................................................................14
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................15
APPENDICES......................................................................................................16
CURRICULUM VITAE......................................................................................17
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LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1. Use Case Diagram of Healthy Foods Recipes and Benefits Application....17
Figure 6. Dashboard........................................................................................................25
1 INTRODUCTION
Foods are part of the daily life of people working hard just for providing food to
their families, but many people are not considering eating healthy foods and more
selecting junk foods and fast food. So, the researchers decided to create an application
that allows people to see different kinds of healthy foods and their benefits of eating
healthy food. Most people are using technology or gadgets and because of technology
people are neglected in cooking healthy foods and prefer order to the different fast-food
restaurant.
Different people have a mobile phone about 70% and having an application that
any age in their personal and social life. According to Neacşu, “the right to health, just as
the right to good education, is one of the fundamental rights of any human being”
(Neacşu, 2010). The promotion of healthy lifestyles has been gaining popularity as a tool
for developing public health. Studies indicated that healthy lifestyles enhance lifelong
health, increase the quality of life, and decrease morbidity and mortality (Ebem, 2007).
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Lifestyle choices and individuals’ behaviors have the potential to influence health and
improve the quality of life (Lyons & Langille, 2000). During the transition from
choices that affect both their current and future health (Nader et al., 2008; Telama, 2009).
This research protocol aims to examine consumers' attitudes and behaviors toward
sustainable and healthy eating through a multidisciplinary approach that considers fiscal,
safety protocol of the government and people just want to stay at home, Therefore,
consumers rely on mobile restaurant application, this can get the attention of the
consumers to try healthy foods and get more knowledge about benefits of eating healthy
foods.
The researchers proposed and planned this project, the researchers saw and
analyze the problem of the people nowadays. Therefore, the researchers planned a
solution and creating an application that may be suited to everybody and not dull for the
consumers and fun to read and analyze the recipes and different descriptions inside our
application.
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information and to support consumers in their efforts to make healthier food choices. To
better deliver on the second of these objectives, it was determined that it might be
necessary to compare products against one another and develop a method of suggesting
alternative products that were likely to be healthier. Fundamental to this requirement was
a mechanism for ranking foods based on their healthiness, and a review was undertaken
Healthy foods recipes and benefits application is about food industry but healthy
foods, this application provides feedback, login form, sign up form to access the
application. It also provides food recipes with different benefits. The purpose is to inform
the consumers by this application on what healthy foods that their body needs and
consumes in their daily life to have a healthy lifestyle [3]. The researchers get the reference
1.2 Objectives
The main objective of this study is to design and develop a Healthy Food
Recipes and Benefits Application.
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1. To design and develop a Healthy Food Recipes and Benefits with the following
features:
1.1 User
1.1.2 Registration
1.2 Admin
2.3 UX Evaluation
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The target consumers are people who want to learn about different recipes and
foods. These people can understand the importance of the application. Moreover, those
who have a nutrition problem also provide a mobile phone and can buy the goods or
environment so that users will not feel any boredom or discomfort, this is an application
that consumers can use whether they’re online or offline. Also, providing different kinds
However, not everyone will be consumers of the application, only those people
who can provide a mobile phone and to those who can utilize the application, who can
view the ingredients and recipes posted in this application. Also, this system only
provides healthy food recipes. Not all kinds of recipes will be posted here only the
The development of nutrition services applications can help people to take control
of their nutrition and health through better eating. There are a lot of benefits they can get
in nutrition services applications. Users can find all the healthy recipes in the healthy
food application. This chapter is about the review of related literature that has relevance
to our topic.
The existing mobile applications in the market are mainly related to diet and
nutrition, including the measurement of the energy expenditure, the calories intake, the
sensor, and communications technologies’ that can enhance chronic disease care beyond
the traditional outpatient physician-patient encounter. This includes applications that run
on mobile phones, sensors that track vital signs and health activities, and cloud-based
computing systems. There has been an explosion of medical apps over the last 5 yr. with
more than 13 000 apps on health care topics alone available to Apple iPhone users and
over 6000 medical apps available to Android users. Close to one in five individuals with
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a smartphone have downloaded a health app resulting in 44 million health app downloads
in 2012 and it is predicted that there will be 142 million downloads by 2016.
proliferating in the marketplace [4]. The increasing number of teenagers with obesity and
sedentary lifestyle is related to the poor habits of diet and physical activity. There is a
large diversity of mobile applications related to diet control and physical activity, mainly
directed to adults and without any medical control. CoviHealth project consists of the
gamification. The main objective of CoviHealth project consists of the use of devices that
promote sedentary and lonely lifestyles to stimulate an increased level of physical and
socialization.
In order to achieve this goal, the development of a mobile application for Android
devices is proposed. The development of this type of mobile application is related to the
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) subject, assisting and motivating young people to adopt
healthy diet habits and promote physical activity. [5] The development of smartphones
programs able to run on these mobile devices. From a public health perspective,
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smartphone apps can potentially enhance the delivery of health behavior change
Despite this, researchers to date have largely developed apps to intervene in the
clinical care setting for patient self-management, whereby a patient monitors themselves
and receives therapeutic feedback, or for real-time therapy where no self-reported data is
required from the patient. The commercial sector has developed numerous apps for
weight loss that include information on nutrition and physical activity, although the
majority are based on calorie counting approaches and may not always reflect best
practice guidelines for weight management. [6] This project sought both to provide easily
healthier food choices. To better deliver on the second of these objectives, it was
determined that it might be necessary to compare products against one another and
Fundamental to this requirement was a mechanism for ranking foods based on their
healthiness, and a review was undertaken to identify the different methods to achieve
this. Once again, a series of criteria were considered in making the choice and these were
based primarily on the quality of the supportive evidence, the likely acceptance of the
method by the nutrition community, current methods being used around the world, and
Mobile health (mHealth) tools are also particularly suitable when it comes to
there is growing consensus among researchers and practitioners that novel approaches
using the internet and mHealth apps should be explored. For example, their zero-
geography feature means that access to apps is not restricted to locations and can be
delivered directly to families in the comfort and privacy of their own homes. This is
especially advantageous for a parent population that reports lack of time, scheduling
management programs.
Another benefit of mHealth apps is their ‘glanceable displays’ that can provide
parents with a quick and coherent overview of their child’s health information,
addition, participants can continue to access an intervention long after completion, which
is important in weight management where there are high rates of relapse [8]. Overweight
and obesity continue to be common, costly, preventable public health issues in the U.S.,
where nearly seven of every 10 adults would benefit from weight loss.1 Current methods
educational and counseling sessions to promote the reduction in energy intake and
increased energy expenditure, have largely failed to change the trajectory of the obesity
epidemic. Although research is limited, some studies have suggested a benefit to using
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technology, such as the Internet and mobile technologies, to deliver health behavior
Fitness and physical exercise are preferred in the pursuit of healthier and active
trainer is increasing. However, this also raises questions about the reliability, integrity,
and even safety of the information provided by such applications. In this study, we
The Researchers conduct a review of every different application to see all the
features they have. Researchers get seven categories in all applications then they compare
all the applications to see what feature they have and don’t have. One of the applications
has a login feature. Four applications have Nutrition information. Two application have a
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difficulty to know how hard to cook it. All six applications have a cooking method. Four
applications have cooking time. Five applications have a bookmark, and two applications
have a rating. All these features will help us to build our application.
Conceptual Framework
Researchers believe that a person’s healthy food recipes and benefits monitoring
can be improved based on using an application that is easy to use and understand, to do
this will depend on the processes and concepts that will be used to enable this method.
Researchers have proposed a system application that would provide for the immediate
use to monitor healthy food recipes and benefits before eating, focusing on distributing
quality needs of a user where it can be controlled. This proposal also aims at preventing a
Figure 1. Conceptual Framework of the Healthy Foods Recipes and Benefits Application
The Researchers have observed the benefits of healthy foods and recipes by
researching and brainstorming so that they can know the list of foods and recipes to be
unhealthy foods and recipes for the design of the system so that all the healthy foods can
be gathered. To support the system proposal, we gathered and research for the related
literature and system, this is important to know the strength and weaknesses of the system
to improve. The design and implementation needed a process in defining the architecture
of the system proposed to be developed. Using Rapid Application Development for the
methodology to emphasize the use of our proposal and the user feedback over strict
The plan to be developed is a solution for every user that is limited in resources.
The researchers designed the system application to be used by other users that are limited
benefits without the hassle of thinking about the internet. It is also functional for low-end
devices.
It is much recommended to use for the unhealthy persons who eat too many foods
without knowing the benefits of it because they will know the risk and dangers of the
food before consuming. This system will benefit all, including health-conscious people, it
can be a starter tool for a person who plans to go to the gym and plans a diet.
3 TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
requirements and hardware specifications that will need for the development of the
proposed application and also the source of data that gather for developing and testing the
application.
SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION
Android Studio
Table 1. contains the software that developers will be needed to build the
application. The developers are using Android Studio for creating and designing the
application.Firebase will be used for storing all the data inserted in the application and
Photoshop for making our logo and for editing images that find on the internet.
HARDWARE SPECIFICATION
RAM – 2GB
ROM – 16GB
Mobile Phone
Table 2. Contains the recommended hardware that will be used to develop our
screen resolution: 1280 x 800. The minimum specification that requires to access the
application has at least Lollipop Android version, 1.95GHz of CPU, 2GB of RAM and
16GB of ROM.
information from the internet that is needed in the application. The researchers will need
to find different types of healthy food recipes to get the ingredients, benefits, and
methods on how they cook. The researchers will need to find a study or article which
functional Requirements. It also discusses how the application flows within the User and
Admin and what is the function or work of a User and Admin in using the application.
The researchers use the internet as a data gathering tool with data from different
studies. The researchers also gather data via browsing and searching related studies and
also find some related application that can provide data for our research.
We observe some people that have knowledge with the Food Industry. The
researchers observe some food stall so we can gather data for our study. And also food
blogs and vlog helps us a lot on what are the benefits of a healthy food for our future
consumers.
Figure 1. Use Case Diagram of Healthy Foods Recipes and Benefits Application
Figure 1 shows the Use Care Diagram of Healthy Foods and Benefits Application.
It shows all the functions of a User and Admin and the relationship between these two.
The user of the system is the consumer that browses different foods and recipes,
and the ADMIN is the one that interacts with the users. The admin is the one who updates
and backups the system and also verifying all the users that will create or login to their
respective accounts. The admin is the one responsible for monitoring the whole system
2. Browse Food
3. View Recipes
4. Save Recipes
System/Application.
FR1.
Registered Users shall be able to Login into Low Medium
the System by providing a Username, Password,
Email, Phone number and verification, to be able to
Bookmark the recipes they like.
Upon successful input of the verification code,
users shall be redirected to the dashboard
If incorrect, a Login error message shall be
displayed
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This part of the paper will be describing the Non-Functional Requirements for
Table 6. Non-Functional Requirement for Safety and Security of Healthy Foods and Benefits
Application
SS2 Required to log in to your account to save all the recipes you add
to your bookmark.
4.2.2.1 ER Diagram
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application. As you can see in the figure above admin can manage the information of the
user and food recipes entities. The user entity has a registration to be able to save all the
recipes they choose, and it has a food recipes entity to view what inside the food recipes.
Figure 3. Functional Decomposition Diagram of Healthy Food Recipes and Benefits Application
The table section of this paper shows the required operating environment that is
needed to produce the expected output and to be able to access the application system.
Table 7. Operating Environment for Healthy Foods and Benefits Application
OE1 This platform must use Android OS version 6.0 and above.
OE2 The system must have at least 16gb phone storage and a ram of 2gb
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at least.
This table contains the design and implementation of the project system.
Table 8. Design and Implementation Constraints for Healthy Foods and Benefits Application
Mention here what type of system development methodology did you adopt. Why
have you chosen it. Then you have to write what did you do from start to finish,
following the chosen methodology. Place in here whatever is the modelling tool used by
the chosen system development methodology. You have to narrate what happened during
4.2.3.1 Planning
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What did the team do during this phase? You have to tell us here. Note that this is
just a sample phase. The phases may differ depending on the chosen system development
methodology.
4.2.3.2 Scrum
What did the team do during this phase? You have to tell us here.
Sprint Summary
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60
50
40
HOURS
30
20
10
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1 2 3 4
number of sprints
Figure 4 shows the burndown chart of the developed system. Explain what the
objective number 2
4.3.1 Functional Test <Replace this with whatever test you will use>
Describe here how did you conduct the testing in detail. Do not discuss results yet.
result of testing will depend on the objectives of the research. If you have two objectives,
follow that sequence in the presentation here. You can place a brief introductory
number 1
Figure 5 shows the log-in page of the admin. Explain and ensure the explanation is
located at the same page of the image. Make sure to arrange this one as per feature stated
in the objectives.
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Figure 6 shows the dashboard of the system. All important screenshots must be
reflected here.
objective number 2
What follows here should show the results of the testing. Attached graph, table, or
6.1 Conclusions
Write the general statement that says you achieved the objective here. Then
specifically, itemize the conclusion based on the stated objective in Chapter 1 as follows.
There is one is to one correspondence with respect to the objectives and conclusion.
Write another paragraph here for future directions. Take note that you may also
consider adding the limitations that you identify in Chapter 1 as part of your future
6.2 Recommendations
REFERENCES
Use IEEE formatting for all references (in the body and in the listing here).
It is suggested that you use reference manager tools like Mendeley.
APPENDICES
Place your appendices here. Please be sure that these have been referenced in the
body of document.
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