124 results about "Food drink" patented technology

A convertible highchair is described that includes a bucket seat with a contoured backrest and an adjustable harness to securely and comfortably hold an infant in place while eating or performing various activities. The bucket seat, acting as an infant seat, is also removable to accommodate infants of different sizes and ages. For instance, the bucket seat can be removed to transition the highchair from use as a baby feeding chair to use as a toddler feeding chair, where a toddler seat is height adjustable. The highchair also features a removable tray that is adjustable in distance from the infant to allow for easy access to food and drinks. The tray can also be equipped with a spill-resistant lip to prevent food and drinks from spilling onto the infant's lap or the floor. The highchair also includes a sturdy base with legs that ensure stability on various surfaces.

The present invention provides an activity improver containing a novel active ingredient. Provided is an activity improver that contains nerol as an active ingredient. In one aspect, the activity improver may have a nerol content of 5-30 ppm. The activity improver may further contain water as a solvent.

A powdery food containing a sucrose-containing plant with a sucrose content of 2.5 mass % or more in terms of dry mass, a dietary fiber content of 1 mass % or more in terms of dry mass, has a particle sizes d50 after ultrasonication of 1,000 μm or less and has an acetoin content of 1 ppb or more and 40,000 ppb or less, is provided. The powdery food easily controls the burnt odor derived from sucrose and extract the sweet flavor peculiar to sucrose in a food and drink containing a powder derived from a sucrose-containing plant.

Some pods include a body having a sidewall that extends from a first end of the body to a second end of the body to define an interior of the pod. The pod contains ingredients disposed within the interior of the pod for producing a single serving of a cooled food or drink. The pod includes a base attached to the first end of the pod. The base includes a rim with at least one radially-inward facing detent. At least a portion of the base is removable for dispensing the produced cooled food or drink from the pod. The pod includes a cap including a shearing drive including a track or circumscribed feature sized to engage the at least one radially-inward facing detent to snap the shearing drive to the base of the pod.

To obtain an amount of food eaten detection unit and an amount of food eaten management system capable of detecting the weight of food and drink without using an exclusive container.SOLUTION: An amount of food eaten detection unit includes a weight sensor, a first elastic body formed by a material that elastically deforms and fitted into a recess disposed in the container or allowing a protrusion disposed in the container to be fitted, a second elastic body arranged under the first elastic body and formed by a material that elastically deforms with the weight sensor embedded, a first hard member formed by a material having hardness higher than the first elastic body and the second elastic body do, and disposed between the first elastic body and the second elastic body vertically, a second hard member formed by a material having hardness higher than the first elastic body and the second elastic body do to hold the second elastic body from the first hard member, and a communication part for transmitting weight information including information about the weight measured by the weight sensor to an external device.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

A convertible high chair is described that includes a bucket seat having a contoured backrest and an adjustable seatbelt to securely and comfortably secure an infant in place when having a meal or performing various activities. The bucket type seat serving as an infant seat is also detachable so as to adapt to infants of different body types and ages. For example, the bucket seat may be removed to transition the high chair from serving as an infant feeding chair to serving as an infant feeding chair, where the height of the infant seat is adjustable. The high chair is further provided with a movable tray, and the distance between the tray and the infant can be adjusted, so that the infant can conveniently obtain food and beverage. The tray may also be provided with an anti-spill lip to prevent food and beverage from spilling onto the legs or floor of the infant. The high chair also includes a robust base with legs that ensure that it can remain stable on various surfaces.

The invention relates to the technical field of microorganisms, and particularly discloses lactobacillus plantarum WCSF1-0012 and application thereof.The lactobacillus plantarum WCSF1-0012 is preserved in the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center on December 19, 2024, the preservation number is CGMCC No.33131, and the lactobacillus plantarum WCSF1-0012 is preserved in the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center on December 19, 2024. The special gene sequence of the lactobacillus plantarum WCSF1-0012 is as shown in SEQ ID NO. 1; the lactobacillus plantarum WCSF1-0012 is used for preparing medicines, health-care products or food drinks for preventing, inhibiting or treating oral tumors. The lactobacillus plantarum WCSF1-0012 is a safe probiotic free of toxic and side effects, can effectively inhibit oral tumors, can play an anti-tumor role by activating macrophages, has long-term practical safety, is low in cost, high in safety and high in reliability, and can be used for preparing medicines or food drinks for preventing and even treating oral tumors.

The present invention relates to the use of the S(+) form of 4-(2,4-difluorophenyl)-2-(1H-indol-3-yl)-4-oxobutanoic acid or a physiologically-acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient in a pharmaceutical composition or a food / beverage composition.

A system includes: an entrance accepting unit configured to accept a seat-waiting request from a customer and store the request as acceptance information; a vacant seat processing unit configured to set any seat among a plurality of seats that has become vacant, as a vacant seat in association with seat information relating to the seat; a seat setting unit configured to associate the seat-waiting information with seat information relating to a vacant seat in a predetermined order under a predetermined condition when any seat among the seats for customers has been set as the vacant seat by the vacant seat processing unit; and a start setting unit configured to record eating and / or drinking start information that indicates start of eating and / or drinking in association with the seat information upon the acceptance information being associated with the seat information by the seat setting unit.

The present disclosure relates to a method for cultivating food and beverages in a bioreactor (1) wherein the method comprises the steps of; - preparing a media, the media being any one of; a basal media, a growth media or a differentiation media; - sterilizing the media prepared in step a); - sterilizing a culture tank (4) and one or more ports (2,3,22) of a bioreactor (1) by using one or more UV light sources (17,18); - providing the media into the culture tank (4) of the bioreactor (1) via the one or more port(s) (2,3); - adding meat cells or non-photosynthetic cells to the sterilized media, either prior to introducing the sterilized media into the culture tank (4) or alternatively by combining the meat cells or non-photosynthetic cells and the sterilized media in the sterilized culture tank (4), or in equipment in connection with the sterilized culture tank; - optionally adding growth factors or differentiation factors to the media, if the media is a basal media for preparing either a growth media or a differentiation media; - allowing the meat cells or non-photosynthetic cells provided in the sterilized media to proliferate or differentiate within the culture tank (4) to provide a cell product; - harvesting and preparing a precursor or final food product and / or beverage from the cell product.

A foldable tray assembly for securely storing food and beverages in a vehicle or an article of luggage includes a tray which includes a first panel hingedly coupled to a second panel such that the tray is positionable between a flattened position and a folded position. A net is attached to the tray and the net surrounds the tray to inhibit the objects from sliding off of the tray. A cup holder unit is hingedly attached to the tray and the cup holder unit is positionable in a deployed position when the tray is in the flattened position to support a pair of beverage containers. A pair of grapples is each pivotally attached to the tray to engage a support object thereby mounting the tray to the support object.

Provided are a technology and a process whereby, in response to an external container having been collected from a user purchasing food / beverage, an internal container for retaining the food / beverage can then be sealed in the external container to dispense the food / beverage.　A container 1 comprises an internal container 3 for tightly sealing in and retaining food / beverage, and an external container 2 into which the internal container can be inserted in order to dispense the food / beverage to a user U, the external container being for insertion of the internal container in response to the external container having been collected from the user. A food / beverage dispensing device 101 for dispensing the food / beverage to the container 1 comprises: an external container collection unit 205 for receiving the external container collected from the user; a container insertion unit 206 for inserting the internal container retaining aforementioned food / beverage desired by the user into the external container; and a container output unit 207 for outputting the container in the state where the internal container retaining the food / beverage has been inserted into the external container.

The present disclosure relates generally to combinations of certain taste modifying compounds with N-(n-hept-4-yl) benzo [d] [1, 3] dioxol-5-carboxamide (which is also referred to herein as "TM1") and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In certain forms, the present disclosure provides a composition comprising TM1, or an edible acceptable salt thereof, and in combination with one or more umami or rich taste tastants. In some embodiments, the compositions are ingestible compositions, including but not limited to packaged food and beverage products.

Disclosed herein are strategies for making α-D-glucopyranosyl-β-allulofuranoside (a disaccharide containing glucose and allulose moieties) also referred to herein as SUPERCROSE™. Also disclosed are allulose-glucose mixtures lacking fructose for enhancing flavor of food and beverages.

To provide a food and drink state management system, etc. capable of facilitating management of a storage state of food and drink and achievement of a high maturation degree.SOLUTION: A food and drink state management system for managing a storage state of food and drink, includes: a gas signal acquisition part including a plurality of gas sensor channels, where at least one of the plurality of gas sensor channels has sensitivity to concentrations of two or more types of gases out of a plurality of target gases; a measurement signal group including measurement signals output from the gas sensor channels in response to gases generated from the food and drink; a sensitivity information group including sensitivity information of the gas sensor channels for each of the plurality of target gases; and a prediction part for outputting a predicted gas concentration representing concentration of at least one gas out of the plurality of target gases using intensity of each measurement signal included in the measurement signal group, an intensity ratio between respective measurement signals, and the sensitivity information group, where at least one of the plurality of target gases relates to freshness or a maturity degree of the food and drink.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

To enable highly accurate recipe evaluation by estimating an evaluation value of food or beverage created according to a cooking recipe not only based on taste but also multifaceted evaluation items.SOLUTION: A recipe evaluation device (10) comprises means (22) that acquires recipe information including at least information on a preparation method and ingredients, and means (23) that estimates evaluation values of multifaceted evaluation items for food or beverage created with a food recipe of recipe information on the basis of the acquired recipe information. The multifaceted evaluation items include, in addition to taste evaluation items, at least texture evaluation items, appearance evaluation items, temperature evaluation items, sound evaluation items during eating or drinking, functional evaluation items, sensory evaluation items after eating or drinking, palatability evaluation items, or combination evaluation items. The recipe information may be acquired from a generative AI so as to match food preferences and requests. The recipe evaluation device can extract factor information (such as preparation steps and ingredients) indicating a causal relationship or a correlation relationship with the evaluation items using causal inference or feature amount selection.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a material for improving the flavor persistence of food and beverages.　The present inventors discovered that an oil-in-water emulsion that comprises a protein material having specific properties and that has an emulsion particle diameter of 100 nm or smaller has an excellent effect in improving flavor persistence of food and beverages.

The present disclosure addresses the problem of achieving high performance even when microwaves are applied to foods and beverages. A signal output device (1) outputs an oscillating signal for generating microwaves applied to foods and beverages. The signal output device (1) comprises: an oscillator (20); a phase shifter (e.g., a first phase shifter 40); and a phase control unit (50). The oscillator (20) outputs an oscillation signal to an antenna, and microwaves are applied through the antenna. A phase shifter is provided to the output position of the oscillator (20) and changes the load impedance from the oscillator (20) to the antenna. A phase control unit (50) controls the phase shifter so as to change a load impedance of the oscillator (20) in accordance with an oscillation frequency of the oscillation signal.

This item is a food and drink container primarily used by small children at the dinner table, and the upper edges located at the four corners of each storage section are particularly curved inward, as shown in the cross-sectional views along lines BB and CC, making it easier to scoop food with a spoon or similar.

The article is a drinking spoon made from a biodegradable biopolymer.

To provide a composition capable of maintaining, improving, or enhancing immune function by activating plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs).SOLUTION: Lactoferrin and / or a lactoferrin hydrolysate is incorporated as an active ingredient into a composition for pDC activation. Here, the pDC activation can include an increase in one or more selected from the group consisting of the proportion of pDC counts among mononuclear cells, the proportion of CD86+ cell counts among pDCs, the CD86 expression level in pDCs, and the HLA-DR expression level in pDCs. The composition can be consumed in the form of a food / beverage or a pharmaceutical.SELECTED DRAWING: None

Provided is a milk substitute composition for protein supplementation, which reduces characteristic flavors (taste, sourness) originating from yeast materials.　More specifically, provided are: a milk substitute composition containing a yeast extract fungal residue or a cell-wall lysing enzyme decomposition product of said residue, and characterized in that the total content of free amino acids (especially glutamic acid) in the residue or the decomposition product is less than a prescribed amount; and milk substitute food and drinks containing the composition. Since the characteristic flavors of the yeast are remarkably reduced, the composition of the present invention can be included in various foods and drinks as a milk substitute composition, at concentrations higher than that of conventional products.