System to support a balanced vegetarian and / or vegan diet

Abstract

The invention relates to a system (1) for supporting a balanced vegetarian and / or vegan diet, wherein a nutrient, food, and / or recipe database (3) is stored on a server (2) and a terminal (4) is connected to the server (1), wherein personal data of a target person (5) can be entered on the terminal (4), and the target person (5) is a pregnant woman, a breastfeeding woman, a baby, a toddler, a child, or a teenager, wherein, depending on the personal data, a daily nutrient requirement of the target person (5) is calculated and determined, and the foods and / or recipes stored on the server (1) can be selected on the terminal (4), wherein a comparison of the nutrient content of the selected foods and / or recipes with the nutrient requirement of the target person (5) is displayed on the terminal (4), and in particular, foods and / or recipes are determined and displayed depending on the personal data that can be entered.which cover the daily nutritional needs of the target person (5).

Description

More and more people are deciding on vegetarian or vegan nutrition, deliberately reduce the consumption of animal products and use plant-based alternatives. The reasons for a corresponding nutritional conversion are individually different. For reasons of animal habit, in favor of climate protection or in favor of own health, a plant-based nutrition is usually sought.In a plant-based nutrition, however, it is to be ensured that an adequate supply of nutrients is ensured, in particular the nutrients which are provided by the animal products in an omnivored nutrition.This is particularly true for pregnant or lactating women, infants, infants, children and teenagers. Since these people grow themselves or wear or feed an growing baby, this group of people has their own specific nutritional requirements. If this nutrient requirement is not met, development disorders may occur. Thus, many parents or getting parents will choose against vegetarian or vegan nutrition to themselves or their children to avoid the risk of nutritional missupply and concomitant development delay or disturbance.The object of the present invention is therefore to show a system which assists an target person with a specific nutritional requirement, in particular a pregnant or still women, a baby, an infant, a child or a teenage, in a balanced vegetarian and / or veganous nutrition and ensures a supply with all required nutrients.The aforementioned object is achieved according to the invention with a system for supporting a balanced vegetarian and / or vegan nutrition having the features of claim 1.Advantageous embodiment variants of the invention are the subject of the preceding claims.The system according to the invention for supporting a balanced vegetarian and / or veganous nutrition comprises a server, in particular a cloud, on which a nutrient, food and / or recipe database is stored. These may be separate databases, which are each linked to one another, or a common database. The stored information or data are based on one another, so that the associated food and the associated nutrient content can be called up for each recipe. The stored recipes and foods correspond to a vegetarian and / or vegan diet. Meat and fish are thus not included.A terminal is connected to the server. Personal data of an object person can be input on the terminal device, wherein the object person is a pregnant woman, a silent woman, a baby, an infant, a child or a teenager. In contrast to a healthy adult, the persons of this target group have their own specific nutritional requirement. Multiple target persons may be created with separate profiles in the system.Depending on the personal data, a daily nutritional requirement of the target person is calculated and determined. A user thus has an accurate overview at all times of which nutrients, in particular critical nutrients, the target person requires daily. The foodstuffs and / or recipes stored on the server can be selected on the terminal, wherein a comparison of the nutrient content of the selected foodstuffs and / or recipes with the nutrient requirement of the target person is displayed on the terminal and can thus be seen. For the sake of clarity, selected nutrients and particularly preferred critical essential nutrients are preferably indicated.The user can thus access the food and / or recipes stored on the server via the terminal and thus compile the daily meals of the target person, which can be the user himself or the child of the user, for example. Also, separate recipes or meals, which are consumed in particular also outside the home, for example in the kita, can be stored via the terminal. The system compares the nutrient content of the selected foods and / or recipes stored in the databases of the server with the nutrient requirement of the target person. This comparison, in particular of the critical nutrients, is displayed on the terminal so that the user can see directly whether all important nutrients are covered by the planned meals. If this is not the case, the user can replace or supplement individual foods and / or meals in order to cover the need for critical nutrients as optimally as possible.Since it is particularly important in vegetarian and / or vegan nutrition, due to the omission of animal products or fish and meat, to take care of a balanced nutrition and an adequate supply of nutrients, in particular with regard to the persons of the group of objectives according to the invention, the system offers the user safety, since it can be seen at all times, by adjusting the daily nutritional requirement and the nutritional content of the planned meals, whether the critical nutritional requirement of the target person is completely covered.Thus, the system assists in a balanced vegetarian and / or vegan diet.In particular, the system automatically determines and displays foods and / or recipes depending on the inputable personal data, which covers the daily nutritional requirement of the target person. It is thus possible for inexperienced users to initially rely completely on the system with the certainty that all important nutrients are covered. The suggested food and / or recipes may be exchanged or supplemented depending on the individual taste.The personal data of the target person preferably comprise the age, size, weight, eating habits, physical condition, activity level, mood state and / or health state. In the eating habits, it is possible, for example, to enter whether a vegetarian or vegan feeding is desired. The more personal data the target person is input, the better the daily nutritional requirement can be calculated and determined by the system.In a preferred embodiment variant of the invention, the individual required nutrients of the target person are shown separately on the terminal in the form of a progress indicator. The progress indication of the respective nutrient indicates how much percent the amount of required nutrient is covered by the selected and / or indicated foods and / or recipes. The user thus has an accurate overview at all times of which nutrients are already covered by the selected and / or displayed foods and / or recipes and which are not. In addition, the user develops a feel for which food and / or recipes cover which nutrients through the separate progress indicators. Over time, the user is thus able to plan the daily meals such that all required nutrients are covered as optimally as possible.The progress indicators are preferably each circular and are displayed in the form of caterpillars on the terminal. The caterpillar-shaped arrangement permits a clear display of the progress indicators of the individual nutrients and also promotes the lasting nutrition in a player's manner.Supplements can also be displayed on the terminal in addition to the foods and / or recipes. In particular, if critical required nutrients of the target person are not completely covered by the foods and / or recipes, the meals can be supplemented with the indicated supplements. This ensures that the nutrient requirement is completely covered at all times.The system may include a tool for meal planning. This is a planning and forming tool that allows the user to plan the different meals of the target person throughout the day. Day plans can be created. With each meal taken into a plan, the overview of the covering of the nutrients displayed on the terminal device changes. This is always done in relation to the requirements of the respective target person for whom the profile was created. Thus, the user gets a feel for what dish and individual food can be used to supply a balanced nutrient.The tool for planning meals comprises the function that the system proposes and displays recipes and foodstuffs which are particularly rich in the nutrients which are not yet sufficiently covered in the planning to date. By combining and shaping, the user gets a feel for the critical nutrients and learns how a balanced, on-demand nutrition and meal design can look without meat and fish or without animal products.Furthermore, the tool for meal planning can show on the terminal which nutrients should possibly be supplemented in order to ensure a healthy, physiological development of the target person. The day plans produced can be stored and called up and adapted at any time.In a further advantageous embodiment variant of the invention, the system comprises a meal configurator, which can be called on the terminal. The meal configurator is constructed as a modular system that allows the user to compile his own recipe from defined food groups. For example, different legumes (lenses, beans, etc.), vegetables (carrots, zucchini, etc.) and / or carbohydrate sources (rice, quinoa, etc.) can be selected by the user for the preparation of a salt.The respective nutrients contained in the recipe created by the meal configurator are calculated by the system and the critical essential nutrients can be compared with those of a comparable omnivoric meal. This comparison is displayed on the terminal. The meal configurator helps the user learn how to compile a balanced meal containing all critical nutrients. Meals for different target groups having different nutritional needs can be created.The meal configurator comprises in particular a bite configurator. This can accompany parents from the first side meal to the transition to the family table and indicates how a balanced supply of all important nutrients, in particular the critical nutrients, can be ensured in a vegetarian or vegan side meal. By means of the co-exist configurator, the user can thus already utilize a vegetarian and / or vegan nutrition during the co-exist guidance without having to fear that not all critical nutrients of the baby are covered. This is relevant in particular for users who wish to feed their baby by means of baby lead weighing (BLW), since in this field there are no recipes and action recommendations to ensure feeding of the baby with nutrients. By means of the side configurator, the user can prepare his own baby paste at home and be sure that this is balanced and age-matched.The accessory configurator displays in particular different food groups from which the different ingredients can be selected. The configurator first uses the selected ingredients to prepare its own recipe and a corresponding cooking instruction.Preferably, the bite configurator comprises a dynamic bite scheduler and a tool for bite meal creation.By means of the side-care provider, the user can gradually replace milk meal times with side-care meal times and plan the side-care food for the baby daily. Supplements may also be selected and integrated to ensure comprehensive nutritional planning. The users receive a clear planning and forming tool for the vegetarian and vegan Beicot.By means of the tool for preparing the bite meal, the individual meals or slurries can be planned individually. The slurries or recipes can thus be assembled individually in a simple and uncomplicated manner according to the preferences of the user or the target person. If all ingredients are selected for a meal, the user receives a recipe from the previously selected ingredients. The system calculates, for each ingredient, the recommended amount for the respective slurry or meal. In addition, the system calculates the nutrients contained in the co-fruit meal and compares the values of the critical nutrients to those of a comparable omnivored co-fruit meal. This comparison is displayed on the terminal.The track-shaped arrangement of the progress indicators can be used for the display. However, the progress indicators do not show the percent of the target person's covered nutritional requirement, but the nutritional content compared to the slurry of the omnivored nutritional form. This allows users to directly recognize how their vegetarian or veganous bite cuts off compared to the traditional omnivor variant and illustrates how a nutritionally rich and healthy plant bite can be constructed. Visualization of the nutrients provides easy user comprehension even without nutritional knowledge. In addition, it can be indicated if the vegetarian or vegan side-food meal has a higher nutrient content than the comparable omnivored variant.The system may comprise a publication database of articles, in particular scientific articles, on the subject of nutrition. The publication database is preferably stored on the server. The publication database can be accessed at any time by means of the terminal. It is thus possible for the user to develop in scientifically informed fashion in the area of vegany and / or vegetarian nutrition. For example, articles on the subject have been deposited with supplements which provide an overview of age-matched food supplements, their dosage and the general study situation. A further example is articles on practical kitchen tips or infant taste embossing. In addition, certain items may be linked to the critical nutrients indicated. The articles refer to certain foods and / or recipes which are particularly suitable for covering the need for the selected nutrient. The user can thus link the critical nutrients to the foodstuffs and / or recipes suitable for the requirement coverage.The recipes are preferably examined under nutritional science and in particular developed such that they meet the nutritional requirements of the target groups defined by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Erhrung (DGE). To cover the need for the omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, the recipes take into account the recommendations of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Thus, a balanced and healthy nutrition of the target person is ensured.The recipes are free of household sugar or white crystal sugar in particular and preferably contain exclusively whole grain products, age-appropriate ingredients and infant-appropriate seasonings.Further advantages, properties and aspects of the present invention are the subject matter of the following description. This serves to facilitate an understanding of the invention.The figure shows a system 1 according to the invention for supporting a balanced vegetarian and / or vegan diet. The system 1 comprises a server 2, in this exemplary embodiment a cloud, on which a combined nutrient, food and recipe database 3 is stored. The recipe database 3 comprises a plurality of over 350 recipes. The corresponding nutrient content is stored for each recipe and for each foodstuff. The foods and the recipes are based on a vegetarian and / or vegan diet and thus do not contain fish and meat. The recipes are also examined under nutritional science and developed in such a way that they meet the nutritional requirements of the target groups defined by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Erhrung (DGE). The recipes are free of white industrial sugar and contain exclusively whole grain products, age-appropriate ingredients and infant-appropriate seasonings.The system 1 further comprises a terminal 4 which is connected to the server 2. The terminal 4 is a smartphone which is connected to the server 2 via the Internet.Personal data of a target person 5 can be input on the terminal 4. The target person 5 is a pregnant woman or a lactating woman, a baby, an infant, a child or a teenager. It is also possible to create a plurality of target person profiles on the terminal 4.The age, size, weight, eating habits, physical condition, activity level, mood state and / or health state of the target person can be input as personal data.Depending on the personal data, a daily nutritional requirement of the target person 5 is calculated and determined. The food and / or recipes stored on the server 2 can be selected on the terminal 4. If a corresponding selection is made, a comparison of the nutrient content of the selected foods and / or recipes with the critical or essential nutrient requirement of the target person 5 is displayed on the terminal device 4. A user, which is not shown in detail and which can also be the target person 5 himself, thus always has an accurate overview of whether all important nutrients required by the target person are covered by the selected recipes and / or foods. Since the persons of the target group according to the invention have a special and increased nutritional requirement, the system 1 supports the user in this case to enable a balanced vegetarian and / or vegan feeding of the target person without too small amounts of critical essential nutrients being absorbed due to the omission of animal products or of fish and meat.Alternatively, the system 1 automatically determines food and / or recipes which cover the daily nutritional requirement of the target person, as a function of the inputtable personal data. The specific food and / or recipes are displayed on the terminal 4 and the nutrient content is compared with the critical nutrient requirement of the target person 5. Thus, it is possible for inexperienced users to initially completely rely on the system 1, with the certainty that all important nutrients are covered. The suggested food and / or recipes may be exchanged or supplemented depending on the individual taste.The individual required nutrients of the target person 5 are displayed separately on the terminal 4 in the form of a progress display 6. The respective progress display 6 indicates how much of the daily required nutrient is covered by the selected and / or displayed foods and / or recipes. The progress indicators 6 are each circular. If the progress indicator 6 of a nutrient is completely filled, the need for this nutrient is completely covered by the selected or displayed recipes or foodstuffs. The progress indicators 6 are displayed in the form of caterpillars on the terminal 4. The caterpillar-shaped arrangement enables a clear representation of the progress indicators 6 of the individual nutrients and also promotes the lasting nutrition in a player's manner.The system 1 comprises a meal configurator 7 retrievable on the terminal 4. Vegetarian and / or vegan meals can be produced by means of the meal configurator 7, wherein the respective nutrients contained are calculated and compared with the nutrients of a comparable omnivored meal. This comparison is displayed on the terminal 4.The meal configurator 7 comprises a bite configurator. By means of the co-exist configurator, the user can thus already utilize a vegetarian and / or vegan nutrition during the co-exist guidance without having to fear that not all critical nutrients of the target person 5 are covered. The bite configurator includes a dynamic bite scheduler and a bite meal creation tool.The system 1 comprises a publication database 8 with articles, in particular scientific articles, on the subject of nutrition, which is stored on the server 2. The publication database 8 can be accessed at any time via the terminal 4, so that the user can continue to develop in a scientifically informed manner in the area of vegany and / or vegetarian nutrition.Reference Number:1 System 2 Server 3 Recipe database 4 Terminal 5 Target person 6 Progress display 7 Meal configurator 8 Publication database

Claims

System (1) for supporting balanced vegetarian and / or vegan nutrition, wherein a nutritional, food and / or recipe database (3) is stored on a server (2) and a terminal (4) is connected to the server (2), wherein personal data of a target person (5) can be input on the terminal (4) and the target person (5) is a pregnant woman, a liberating woman, a baby, an infant, a child or a teenage, wherein a daily nutritional requirement of the target person (5) is calculated and determined depending on the personal data and the foods and / or recipes stored on the server (2) can be selected on the terminal (4), wherein a comparison of the nutritional content of the selected food and / or recipes with the nutritional requirement of the target person (5) is displayed on the terminal (4) and in particular food and / or recipes are determined and displayed depending on the inputtable personal data which cover the daily nutritional requirement of the target person (5).The system (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the personal data of the target person (5) comprises the age, the height, the weight, the eating habits, the physical condition, the activity level, the mood state and / or the health state.System (1) according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the individual required nutrients of the target person (5) are shown separately on the terminal (4) in the form of a progress indicator (6), wherein the progress indicator (6) indicates how much of the respectively daily required nutrient is covered by the selected and / or displayed foods and / or recipes.System (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the progress indicators (6) are each circular and are indicated in the form of caterpillars on the terminal (4).The system (1) according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the system (1) comprises a meal configurator (7), wherein the nutrients of the vegetarian and / or vegan meal created by the meal configurator (7) are calculated and compared with the nutrients of a comparable omnivorous meal, wherein the comparison is displayed on the terminal (4).The system (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the meal configurator (7) comprises a bi-cost configurator.The system (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the bite configurator comprises a dynamic bite scheduler and a bite meal creation tool.The system (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the system (1) comprises a publication database (8) with articles, in particular scientific articles, on the subject of nutrition.System (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the recipes are nutritionally checked and in particular developed in such a way that they meet the nutritional requirements of the target groups defined by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Erwehrung (DGE).System (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the recipes are free of white crystal sugar and contain exclusively whole grain products, age-appropriate ingredients and infant-appropriate seasonings.

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