Food recipe scoring and ranking system

A computer-implemented method for assisting food preparation, the method comprising:

• receiving, by the computer, a general dish specification comprising a selected dish type, a selected cuisine type, and one or more culinary objectives;
• identifying, by the computer, candidate ingredient types based on recipes of the selected dish type and the selected cuisine type in a recipe database;
• computing a number or range of ingredients for each candidate ingredient type based on a frequency of occurrence of ingredients of each candidate ingredient type in the recipes of the selected dish type and the selected cuisine type in the recipe database;
• generating a bill of ingredients selection menu including the candidate ingredient types and prompts to select the computed number or range of ingredients for each candidate ingredient type;
• receiving, by the computer, a bill of ingredients including ingredient selections for each candidate ingredient type corresponding to the prompts of the bill of ingredients selection menu;
• computing a recipe closeness score for a plurality of the recipes of the selected dish type the selected cuisine type in the recipe database based on the bill of ingredients, the culinary objectives and parameters for the recipes stored in the database;
• ranking the recipes based on the recipe closeness scores;
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• providing, by the computer, a ranked list of the recipes.