The invention provides a system (1) for identifying or assisting in identifying a product or a set of products of a user, such as the content of a meal tray (2), said system for identifying or assisting in identifying comprising a counter (11), a lighting system (3) for lighting the counter (11), a plurality of image acquisition devices (41, 42, 43) pointing towards the counter (11), and an identifier device (5) enabling the user to be identified. Said system for identifying or assisting in identifying further comprising a control device (7) configured to acquire the identifier (601) of the user, to acquire an image of said product or set of products with each of said image acquisition devices (4), and to associate the acquired images with the identifier.