Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models for Dietary Recommendations With Traditional Chinese Medicine’s Medicine Food Homology: Algorithm Development and Validation

Hangyu Sha   ^{1, 2 *} , BEng ;   Fan Gong   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Bo Liu   ^{4 *} , PhD ;   Runfeng Liu   ^{1, 2} , BEng ;   Haofen Wang   ⁵ , PhD ;   Tianxing Wu   ^{1, 2} , PhD

¹ School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

² Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (Southeast University), Ministry of Education, China

³ Department of Endocrinology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

⁴ Informatization Office, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

⁵ College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

*these authors contributed equally