MyFoodRepo and Science

Originally created at EPFL's Digital Epidemiology Lab for clinical and epidemiological studies, MyFoodRepo was designed from the start to make nutrition tracking easy for research participants. Tested and trusted in scientific projects, it's now available to everyone - bringing research-grade reliability and everyday simplicity together in one platform.

Below, you'll find a list of scientific papers that have used MyFoodRepo in their research.

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2025

Personalized glucose prediction using in situ data only

Rohan Singh, Marouane Toumi, Marcel Salathé

Diabetologia, 2025

The metabolic and circadian signatures of gestational diabetes in the postpartum period characterised using multiple wearable devices

Nicholas E. Phillips, Julie Mareschal, Andrew D. Biancolin, Flore Sinturel, Sylvie Umwali, Stéphanie Blanc, Alexandra Hemmer, Felix Naef, Marcel Salathé, Charna Dibner, Jardena J. Puder & Tinh-Hai Collet

PLOS Digital Health, 2023

Food & You: A digital cohort on personalized nutrition

Harris Héritier, Chloé Allémann, Oleksandr Balakiriev, Victor Boulanger, Sean F. Carroll, Noé Froidevaux, Germain Hugon, Yannis Jaquet, Djilani Kebaili, Sandra Riccardi, Geneviève Rousseau-Leupin, Rahel M. Salathé, Talia Salzmann, Rohan Singh, Laura Symul, Elif Ugurlu-Baud, Peter de Verteuil, Marcel Salathé

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2022
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022

The Food Recognition Benchmark: Using Deep Learning to Recognize Food in Images

Sharada Prasanna Mohanty, Gaurav Singhal, Eric Antoine Scuccimarra, Djilani Kebaili, Harris Héritier, Victor Boulanger, Marcel Salathé

MDPI Nutrients, 2022

Performance of the Digital Dietary Assessment Tool MyFoodRepo

Claire Zuppinger, Patrick Taffé, Gerrit Burger, Wafa Badran-Amstutz, Tapio Niemi, Clémence Cornuz, Fabiën N. Belle, Angeline Chatelan, Muriel Paclet Lafaille, Murielle Bochud, Semira Gonseth Nusslé

Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, 2021

Associations Between Device-Measured Physical Activity and Glycemic Control and Variability Indices Under Free-Living Conditions

Douae El Fatouhi, Harris Héritier, Chloé Allémann, Laurent Malisoux, Nasser Laouali, Jean-Pierre Riveline, Marcel Salathé, Guy Fagherazzi

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2018

FoodRepo: An Open Food Repository of Barcoded Food Products

Gianrocco Lazzari, Yannis Jaquet, Djilani J Kebaili, Laura Symul, Marcel Salathé