32 results about "Food availability" patented technology

A system and method monitor the progress of a meal and provide course menus in synchronization with the monitored progress of the meal. The system includes a menu application for retrieving course menus and sending them to a patron communicator located at a table in a restaurant. The patron communicator displays the course menu for viewing by the patrons seated at a table. When an attendant receives orders from the patrons, an attendant service indicator is activated to provide an attendant service signal to the patron communicator. The attendant service signal is provided to the menu application so the meal status may be updated and the next course menu corresponding to the updated meal status retrieved. The menu application may insert advertising in the course menus. The advertisements may also include special offers and discounts generated from food supply data so that dishes prepared with food approaching freshness expiration dates may be timely offered. In an alternative embodiment, the patron communicators may receive selection data for identifying menu items for an order so attendants may limit their presence at a table to the delivery of the ordered food.

An aquaculture or wastewater effluent water quality device to improve water quality and food supply in an aquaculture pond or body of water by incubating beneficial microbes in a temperature controlled environment and systematically releasing them to the surrounding water, allowing the beneficial microbes to perform sanitation functions and to help such systems or water bodies overcome the natural production of harmful microbial species without substantially heating or cooling the entire system any more than is required by the present state of the system or body of water or the inhabitants thereof.

A chilled food product comprising a generally flat holder, a foldable food supported on the holder which food comprises a generally flat dough-based material supporting at least one edible filling or topping, and a removal wrap containing the holder and the food. The holder comprises a base, first and second sides adjacent the base, and a pair of lines of weakness between the base and the first and second sides, respectively, wherein the lines of weakness facilitate folding of the sides of the holder and the foldable food into a folded food product after cooking the unwrapped chilled product. The cooked folded food can be handheld in a comfortable manner via the holder. The holder also can incorporate means to aid increasing the exposure or repositioning of the cooked folded food while contained in the holder for eating convenience. Holders having flaps or slots to improve access to held foods also are provided. A method of serving packaged chilled food products incorporating the holder also is provided.

In order to appropriately address concerns of mosquitoes which carry disease, this device has been created to initially classify the mosquito to formulate appropriate extermination strategies. Classification of mosquitoes is typically done through the wing beat frequency by either noise or light interruption. It is important to be aware that not all mosquitoes are harmful and any data that may be collected concerning the harmful mosquito should be as accurate as possible to avoid altering the food supply in any particular area.

A novel temperature regulating food conveying container system for holding hot and cold food in close proximity is provided. In preferred embodiments, the system generally includes a plurality of stacked, concentric, and annular levels with decreasing diameters. The levels are configured with a plurality of food serving containers each with a corresponding temperature regulating unit. One or more motors may be configured to rotate the individual levels. One or more light elements may be positioned at various locations on and around the levels. In further preferred embodiments, a control switch is configured to control the temperature of each individual temperature unit.

A method for guiding a child in the self-selection of a nutritionally-balanced meal in order to increase the likelihood that the child will consume a nutritionally-balanced meal, the method comprising:

• • creating a system of food categories according to nutritional content, and associating a unique visual guide with each food category;
  • providing an offering of food items, each of the food items having the appropriate visual guide displayed therewith;
  • providing the child with a tray having a plurality of different sections thereon, each of the sections having a visual guide associated therewith; and
  • instructing the child to self-select a plurality of food items, and place each selected food item in the section of the tray which has a visual guide which matches the visual guide associated with the food category to which that food item belongs, until pre-determined criteria have been satisfied.

The invention relates to the technical field of animal breeding, in particular to a method for measuring the ingestion preference degrees of sea cucumbers. The invention solves the problem that the food is difficult to observe and count by adding an indicator to natural foods and sediments difficult to distinguish and easy to leach. In the invention, an element analyzer is used to measure the heavy metal contents in the indicator and calculate the ingestion preference degrees of the sea cucumbers so as to reduce errors existing in traditional methods through manual observation and simple weighing and improve the accuracy and the operability of the experiment. The invention considers food availability, is more objective than a method of singly calculating the proportions of various foods in the inclusions of intestinal tracts and has practical application values.

A food sharing system comprises a server configured to receive, store, process, analyze, and/or provide information about food availability, food requests/searches, availability of food preparation facilities, and requests/searches for food preparation facilities. The server may provide to a user, in response to a request/search, options for food and/or food preparation facilities. When a user makes a selection, the server may facilitate a transaction for reserving and/or paying for food, food-sharing related goods or services, and/or food preparation facilities. Compensation in such transactions may include money, currency, services, credits, and/or combination of such.

A food and water dispensing assembly for pets including a food dispensing assembly, a water dispensing assembly, a storage assembly and a water draining assembly is disclosed. The food dispensing assembly holds and stores food. It continuously dispenses food in order to avoid food supplies getting low. The water dispensing assembly holds and stores water. It continuously dispenses water in order to avoid water levels ever declining. Thereby allowing the pet to be fed and provided water even when unsupervised. The water draining assembly is essential as it prevents overflow of water from the water assembly to ever occur. Any overflow of water in the system is disposed of through the water draining assembly, which aids in avoiding water damage that may result from water overflow due to a structural failure of the water dispensing system or otherwise. The water draining assembly is crucial to prevent emergency situations from arising.

A nutrition tracking system comprises a nutrition tracking server, a plurality of weight-based food offering terminals, and one or more nutrition and meal information inquiry terminals. Multiple weight-based food offering terminals may be equipped on a food service cart. Each weight-based food offering terminal may be initialized to offer a type of food. The weight-based food offering terminal automatically measures the weight of food taken by a customer or for a customer, calculates the cost of food, and shows the weight and the cost on the display in real time. When the food is paid, the weight-based food offering terminal automatically reports the vending information to the nutrition tracking server. The nutrition tracking server maintains a database for customer meal information and a database for customer nutrition information. Customers may inquire their meal history and nutrition information using the nutrition and meal information inquiry terminals.

The invention relates to the field of trachidermus fasciatus, in particular to a breeding and fry rearing method of trachidermus fasciatus. The method specifically comprises the following steps: parent fish cultivation and wintering period treatment, artificial spawning induction, spawning and fertilized egg collection, egg mass incubation, newly hatched fry cultivation and large-scale fry cultivation and domestication. In the parent fish overwintering, wild living freshwater shrimps need to be caught in advance and cultured in an overwintering pond so as to meet food supply of the trachidermus fasciatus in a whole overwintering period. In the artificial spawning induction, a use method and dosage of an oxytocic are controlled so as to meet requirements of spawning induction of the trachidermus fasciatus. An egg collector used in the spawning is a transparent organic glass product so as to effectively avoid disturbance of a spawning behavior of the trachidermus fasciatus parent fish by turning over the egg collector when the spawning is checked, and can remarkably improve the egg collecting efficiency. The method can effectively improve a parent fish spawning rate, a fertilized egg hatching rate, a fry survival rate and an artificial compound feed domestication success rate, and is complete and efficient for breeding and fry rearing of trachidermus fasciatus.

A bain-marie's and cold tables pan and pan liner system includes a temperature controlled food serving bar having at least one channel preferably a thermally controlled. A sub-pan is received in the channel and has a bottom, and an upward extending side wall which terminates in a lateral extending flange and defines generally upper sub-pan surfaces and lower sub-pan surfaces wherein the one sub-pan is made of a material and predefined thickness x sufficient to provide structural stability when disposed in the thermally controlled environment. A pan liner has a complementary configuration to the sub-pan having a bottom, and an upward extending side wall which terminates in a lateral extending flange and nested on the sub-pan and covers the upper sub-pan surfaces and having thickness x-y which is thinner than the sub-pan thickness x and made of a recyclable material.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing microalgae micro powder containing astaxanthin and fatty acids with enhanced penetration performance and food availability, and more particularly, to a method for manufacturing microalgae micro powder containing astaxanthin and fatty acids with enhanced penetration performance and food availability, in which four kinds of functional microalgae are selected and mass-cultured so as to be processed into a dietary shape for easy penetration performance.

The invention discloses a bionic tortoise capable of freely moving and feeding. The bionic tortoise comprises a tortoise shell, a free moving device arranged on the tortoise shell and a feeding device used for feeding feed. Wherein the free moving device comprises a mounting frame arranged in the tortoise shell, four limbs arranged on the mounting frame and a power mechanism used for driving the limbs to swing; the power mechanism comprises a power source and four groups of slider-crank mechanisms; the four groups of slider-crank mechanisms are respectively connected between the power source and each limb; the feeding device comprises a storage bin used for storing feed and a discharging mechanism used for discharging the feed in the storage bin to the outside, and the discharging mechanism comprises a discharging cylinder body, a feeding port, a discharging port and a pushing assembly, wherein the feeding port, the discharging port and the pushing assembly are formed in the discharging cylinder body. The bionic turtle can freely move in water and can automatically put feed in the water, and food supply of aquarium fishes is effectively guaranteed.

A system for alimentary provisioning includes a computing device configured to provide an alimentary instruction set including a plurality of target nutrient quantities, receive, from each alimentary provider device of a plurality of alimentary provider devices, a plurality of provider ingredients, generate a plurality of ingredient combinations, wherein each ingredient combination is a combination of two or more provider ingredients of the plurality of provider ingredients, and select a plurality of beneficial ingredient combinations from the plurality of ingredient combinations, wherein selecting each ingredient combination of the plurality of ingredient combinations includes determining a nutrient listing corresponding to each ingredient combination of the plurality of ingredient combinations, creating a distance metric from the nutrient listing to the alimentary instruction set, and selecting at least an ingredient listing that minimizes the distance metric, and selecting the plurality of beneficial ingredient combinations to minimize the distance metric.

A method for controlling agricultural insects in a crop, comprising contacting the agricultural insects or the agricultural insects' food supply, habitat, breeding grounds or locus with a synergistically effective amount of a combination of bifenthrin and fipronil is disclosed.