96 results about "Nutrition information" patented technology

A nutritional information scale having memory means to hold the nutritional data of various foods as well as a computer and input means to enter the type of food and determine nutritional values of the food based on the data stored and the weight of the portion provided. The device permits the use of the user's food containers and / or plate as the weight of the plate can be removed from the weight value, by virtue of a tare calculation. The memory of the device permits the user to store food values of various portions of foods and / or entire meals, and then display either the individual portion values or the values for an entire meal or series of meals. Further, values for more than one user can be provided and displayed.

The present invention uses market research data to access nutrient intakes of a population. Dietary collection using 24-hour recall generally does not reflect a pattern of “usual” intake behavior for a population group. To determine the impact of food consumption patterns on nutrient intake, a unique methodology using 14-day food diary was developed. The food industry has traditionally used detailed food records to track the consumption of specific branded food items and monitor the growth of food categories, but some of the most valuable databases available concerning longer-term (e.g., 14-day) food intake do not record portion size on an individual consumption basis. Other databases based on shorter-term (24-hour recall) survey periods record portion sizes but are not very representative of eating habits. The preferred exemplary embodiment integrates two such databases with a third data set providing detailed nutrient information for each of a wide variety of foods consumed to provide a combined database for processing nutrient intake reports using statistical analysis. This flexible system allows the user to categorize the population based on “usual” consumption of food categories, specific foods and / or specific brands of foods and determine dietary differences versus their “non-using” counterparts.

The invention discloses a remote wireless farmland monitoring system and method. The remote wireless farmland monitoring system comprises a farmland information acquisition subsystem, an irrigation control subsystem, a wireless remote transmission unit, and a cloud computing server, wherein the farmland information acquisition subsystem comprises multiple sensor nodes for acquiring growth information data of farmland crops; the irrigation control subsystem receives irrigation and fertilization commands from the cloud computing server to perform precise fertilization and irrigation; and the cloud computing server performs crop growth simulation day by day in the whole growing period of the crops, computes daily water demand information and growth nutrition information, and sends irrigation and fertilization commands to the irrigation control subsystem in real time. By virtue of the remote wireless farmland monitoring system and method disclosed by the invention, the effect of optimizing and guiding the irrigation and fertilization during crop plantation by farmers is achieved, and more precise irrigation and fertilization control can also be provided so as to achieve the aims of saving water and fertilizer and improving earnings.

An electronic scale for recording health administration data comprises: a micro controller, a food database module, a weight sensing device, an identification module, the food database module, and the user database module. The micro controller has at least an embedded application for processing data input, output, analysis, and calculation. The food database module is provided for storing detailed food data item. The weight sensing device comprises a weight platform for receiving the food for weight measuring and sensing the food weight. The identification module is provided for identifying the data in an identification tag of the food for weight measuring. The data identified by the identification module is used to map to the corresponding food and the associated data in the food database module for performing analysis and calculation in the micro controller. The nutrition information such as nutrition components, calories of the food for measuring is displayed on a screen so as to provide recommendation intake quantity and warnings to user, and stores the recorded data of user diet in a user database module.

An illustrative mobile computing device executing weight, nutrition, health, behavior and exercise application software serves as a simulated combination personal trainer and dietician / nutritionist for the user using comprehensive databases storing personalized health, nutrition and exercise information. A mobile computing device, such as a smartphone, executing such software monitors, tracks and / or adjusts caloric intake, energy expenditure taking into account nutritional information and behavioral factors. The mobile computing device receives food consumption, exercise-related, behavior and other input using speech input and the device's GPS subsystem to ease data entry burden on users and to promote continued long-term usage. The system rewards user goal achievement in an automatic, seamless manner, through, for example, downloading music, books, or other media. In illustrative implementations, the system assists users to make healthy food and exercise choices by using a comprehensive color code system to identify good choices, bad choices and those in between.

In one embodiment, this invention utilizes radio frequency identification (RFID) tag with nutrition information for each kind of food in a restaurant, institutional cafeteria, in food delivery to hospital patients, in hospice, in old age home residents or elsewhere. The food plate is placed on a coaster with an RFID reader and miniature built-in scale. The scale is used to measure the weight of a particular food placed on the plate. In addition, the RFID reader reads the nutritional information from an RFID tag in the serving bin of the cafeteria or the food distribution point. With the nutritional information of each food and the amount of the food that is added to the plate, the nutritional intake of a customer or patient can be calculated. With this the nutrition information now available, the nutritional information, including the amount of vitamins, calories, sugars, carbohydrates, and grams (g) of fat, can be obtained and tracked.

The present invention relates to a system for diet control; more specifically, to an autonomous portable electronic device, which allows the user easily, input a nutrition facts data about the food he or she takes into the device. The device can extract, display, and store in a cumulative fashion the nutrition facts he or she takes, and possibly give a warning message when the user takes more nutrition facts than their needs, and possibly give a suggestion helping the user to select to meal. Also, the device can easily send the user's nutrition information to the restaurant / food store when they buy the food so the restaurant / food store can make the food based on the user's nutrition requirement. Also, the device can count the energy consumed by the user, and give the user a hint on how to adjust his or her nutrition / diet control.

The invention relates to a method and a device for rapidly detecting main nutritional information during the growth of a tea tree based on a hyperspectral imaging technique. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, actually measuring three main nutritional element content, such as N, P and K, of leaf samples and forming a database by using the measuring result as a reference measuring result; secondly, acquiring hyperspectral image data of the leaf samples of the tea tree in different visible light and near-infrared wave bands and transferring the data to a computer by using an image acquisition card; thirdly, preprocessing the data to complete the corresponding characteristic extraction and associating the characteristic variables with the measured N, P and K content in the established database to build a predictive model of the N, P and K content of the leaf; and finally, performing the corresponding data acquisition and characteristic extraction on the samples to be measured and predicting the N, P and K content of the leaf by using the built model. The method and the device have the advantages of high detection speed, simple and convenient operation, more comprehensive information and improvement on the accuracy and the stability of the detection result.

The invention discloses an intelligent health management terminal, a server, a system and a method; the system comprises a food analyzer, the health management server and the health management terminal; the health management terminal receives food weight information weighted by the food analyzer, and sends the food information and user information to the health management server. The health management server calculates food nutrition data according to the food information and user information, and sends the food nutrition data to the health management terminal. The terminal, server, intelligent health management system and method can automatically calculate and display the food nutrition information, can detect food intake with more accuracy, and warn the users when nutrient intake is about to reach or has already exceeded an alarm value, thus giving reasonable meal guidance suggests, reasonably planning meal intake, keeping health food intake, and food monitoring is more humanized, so human body health management can be easily realized.

To help consumers around the world reduce the confusion and complexity of choosing among thousands of wellness products that are effective for their particular medical conditions and / or wellness goals, the present inventor, devised one or more exemplary systems, methods, software, and data structures for recommending products, such as health, fitness, and nutritional products, to consumers. One exemplary system receives user profile information, such as gender, age, medical condition(s), wellness goal(s), biometric data, allergies and sensitivities, and / or nutrition information, and recommends products based on the consumer profiles and product ingredient efficacy and / or contraindications for the medical conditions and / or wellness goals. The system recommends the most scientifically effective products for a particular consumer, while accounting for contraindications thereby reducing risk potentially harmful products. The system ultimately empowers consumers around the world to make safer and more knowledgeable decisions regarding their own wellness.

The invention provides a water and fertilizer control method and system. The method comprises, according to the environment information and soil information of the area where a crop is planted as wellas the current growth stage of the crop, acquiring the amount of water demanded; according to the soil nutrition information of the area and the nutrient absorption characteristics of the crop, acquiring the amount of nutrition demanded of the crop in the current growth stage on the basis of a soil nutrient balance method; according to the amount of water demanded and the amount of nutrition demanded of the crop, irrigating and applying fertilizer to the crop. By analyzing and processing irrigation and fertilizer application data, the water and fertilizer control method can help automaticallymake irrigation and fertilizer application decisions with higher precision and scientific performance.

A cellular phone-based nutrition information system. The cellular phone-based nutrition information system is designed to provide nutrition information to an end-user corresponding to the menu of a specified food service provider in order to allow the end-user to make informed decisions when ordering a meal through the use of a cellular phone communicating with a database providing nutrition information associated with food items offered by a food service provider.

The present invention is directed to a computer-based weight loss system for supporting bariatric treatment of obesity that is accessible to both the patient and the medical practitioner. The system has a central server maintaining a library of information related to the treatment of obesity and a patient interface and a medical practitioner interface linked to the central server for uploading and downloading of information. The patient interface also provides access to information selected from the group consisting of bariatric care pathway, behavioral modification planning, fitness, preoperative diet, postoperative diet, monitoring of a gastric band, monitoring of a patient's weight, monitoring caloric intake and nutritional information. The uploaded information is processed by the central server and then made available to the medical practitioner and the patient.

The present invention relates to an improved food vending machine equipped with a remote nutrition informing system, comprising a nutrition informational display providing at least one category identifier representative of a dietary category of food along with a corresponding brief description and at least one food item which has a label associated to it, the label displaying all category identifiers that is represented in the at least one food item.

A calorie counter that uses a voice command function to transition between various functional modes while maintaining the portability and aesthetic value as an accessory. Preprogrammed memory contained within the system pertains to reported nutritional information relating to specific food / beverage items and also dishes served at restaurants. This information may be ordered via voice command by the consumer, who then receives the information on a display screen and / or conventional synthesized voice and speaker function, before opting to record the number of calories or other nutritional item that was ingested. This recorded information is transferred to an electronic log where it can be reviewed at any time.

The invention discloses a control method of a cooking device. The control method comprises the following steps that a recipe used for cooking is selected; nutrition information is calculated by the cooking device according to the recipe, and is displayed to a user; the cooking work is executed by the cooking device according to the cooking procedures corresponding to the selected recipe. Food meeting the needs of people can be cooked by the method according to the practical needs of the user, and huge convenience is brought for the life of people. The invention also discloses the cooking device and a trophic analysis system provided with the cooking device.

An item price notification system automatically interrogates product labels to determine product, pricing, and other unique data. The system uses a radio frequency (RF) radio frequency transceiver to generate an RF field to communicate with radio frequency identification (radio frequency transponders) transponders mountable to product display shelves. The radio frequency transponders contain information such as pricing information, nutritional information, and other unique data about the various products. As the RF radio frequency transceiver moves into proximity to various radio frequency transponders for a variety of products, the unique data are received by the RF radio frequency transceiver and are displayed for the user. The displayed data allows a user to make comparisons between products, and the system display and memory allow a user to store the unique data for those products and to make instant and cumulative product, price, and other comparisons.

The invention discloses an intelligent nutrition balance system. The system comprises an intelligent nutrition balance, a cloud server and client software. The method comprises the following steps: weighing foods by the intelligent nutrition balance, transmitting image data of the foods, food name voice data reported by an operator and the like to the cloud server through a network, recognizing the types of the foods through an image recognition and / or voice recognition technology by virtue of a program on the cloud server, and then giving nutrition information of the foods and further diet suggestions or guidance according to a nutritional ingredient database and scientifically recommended diet data. Therefore, the information can be accessed by a user through the client software, the user can correct errors of image recognition and / or voice recognition, and the updated data is analyzed and calculated again by the cloud server.

A food and exercise calculating aid enables an individual to quickly determine how much of a selected exercise is necessary to burn off the calories consumed by a selected food item. Nutritional information for various food items and metabolic equivalent information for various exercises are stored in memories. The user accesses the memories for selected foods and exercises, as well as for the user's weight, and the aid calculates the exercise time duration necessary for the selected food.

In one embodiment, this invention utilizes radio frequency identification (RFID) tag with nutrition information for each kind of food in a restaurant, institutional cafeteria, in food delivery to hospital patients, in hospice, in old age home residents or elsewhere. The food plate is placed on a coaster with an RFID reader and miniature built-in scale. The scale is used to measure the weight of a particular food placed on the plate. In addition, the RFID reader reads the nutritional information from an RFID tag in the serving bin of the cafeteria or the food distribution point. With the nutritional information of each food and the amount of the food that is added to the plate, the nutritional intake of a customer or patient can be calculated. With this the nutrition information now available, the nutritional information, including the amount of vitamins, calories, sugars, carbohydrates, and grams (g) of fat, can be obtained and tracked.

A system, method, and apparatus for optimizing efficient use of resources in a controlled farming environment is disclosed. Various inputs to a controlled farming environment, wherein the controlled farming environment includes a plurality of plants, are controlled based on the nutrition information for the plurality of the plants. Third party information, such as electrical rate information from a power company, can be accessed by the system and may also be utilized to control the inputs to the farming environment. For example, if a power company offers incentives or reduced rates to not utilize power during certain time periods, the system of the present invention will send a signal to the electrical interface to only power the light source to the controlled environment at times other than the certain time period so as to take advantage of the reduced rates or incentives.

The fast food wrapping and delivery method and system use an ink jet printer that can print patterns in either obverse form and reverse form to print a food order and nutrition information of a food on a food container in real-time. When a POS system receives the food order from a customer, the POS system controls the ink jet printer to print the food order (or plus some additional instructions for making a food and nutrition information of the food) on one side of the food container to generate a custom fabricated food container that best fits with each unique food product ordered by a customer.

The invention relates to an electronic scale with a function of health management, which comprises a microprocessor, a food database module, a weight sensing device, a recognition module and a user database module. The microprocessor is provided with at least one built-in program which is used for processing input, output, storage, analysis and operation of data, the food database module is used for storing detailed data of various types of food, the weight sensing device comprises a scale platform and is used for containing at least one type of food to be tested and sensing weight of the food, and the recognition module is used for recognizing data stored in a recognition label of the food to be tested. By the aid of the recognition data obtained by the recognition module, the corresponding food and data thereof are located from the food database module for analysis and operation by the microprocessor, and nutrition information such as nutrition, calorie and the like of the weighed food is displayed on a screen and used for supplying recommended intake and warning for a user, and diet recording data of the user is stored in the user database module.

The invention discloses a portable nutritional-recipe electronic scale and a weighing data processing method therefor, relates to a weighing instrument or method for a special purpose, and especially relates to a weighing instrument which has functions of diet guide and nutrition recipe according to the weighing results. The electronic scale comprises a scale body, a scale disc, and a weighing module. An embedded system in the scale body is connected to a food nutrition module, a standard recipe module, and a menu module through a database management module. The embedded system is connected to the weighing module, enables the weight data of food to be transmitted to a meal list module of the embedded system, and generates a meal list containing the weight data of good. The embedded system obtains the nutrition information of the food from the food nutrition module according to the generated meal list, calculates the nutrition content of all foods of the meal list, and displays the nutrition content through a touch screen. The embedded system achieves man-machine interaction of a weighing process through the touch screen connected to a touch screen module, and adjusts the weight and variety of food in the meal list according to groups, and achieves the functions of diet guide and nutrition recipe.

The invention discloses a nutrition management method based on personalized precision and a diet guidance system. According to the method, the personalized nutrition information is acquired based onthe user basic information and the questionnaire answer information, the optimal intake of multiple nutrients required by a user is adjusted based on the user's correction information for the multiplenutrients, the nutrient intake that the user should take regularly or irregularly is acquired, and a corresponding diet plan is made and designed on the basis. In combination with a nutrition risk screening questionnaire, required daily nutrition values can be scientifically and accurately acquired, the method is suitable for general public nutrition analysis self testing, quantitative personalized nutrition analysis is more scientific and accurate; precise matching from nutritional analysis to dietary advices is realized.

A prepackaged potato is contained within a serving receptacle that also includes items for use in consumption of the potato, which may be in the form of utensils, toppings and the like. The serving receptacle defines an interior within which the potato and the items for use in consumption of the potato are contained, and which is covered by a wrap material, a lid or a cover. The lid or cover may be formed with a cutout or window, which allows a consumer to view at least a portion of the contents of the serving receptacle. The lid or cover includes a label that bears nutrition information as well as instructions for preparation of the potato.

The invention discloses a nutrition prescription system and a method for realizing nutrition prescription thereof. The method includes: firstly detecting the energies and nutrition information needed by a human body by a detecting unit; then calculating the respective dosages of a plurality of food needed by the human body by a calculation unit according to the energies and the nutrition information; then selecting one or a plurality of food from each kind of food in a plurality of food according to the respective dosages of a plurality of food by a selecting unit. The method can carry out management on the meals of each person in each day, freely select the food for one day and then arrange the food for a future time period; besides, the invention can carry out analysis on the meals in each day to check whether or not the nutriments exceed the standard, thus promoting a healthy diet by the optimized management. The system and the method of the invention are simple and effective and can affect the goal of reasonably arranging various food and balancing the dietary.

The invention discloses an energy measurement system, comprising a terminal extension set, various physical models, an energy balance, display equipment and input equipment, wherein the physical models are used for simulating various foods; a radio frequency identification device (RFID) label is arranged in each physical model; a nutrition information table of the corresponding food is arranged in the label; the energy balance is used for collecting the information of the nutrition that is ingested by users, and the energy balance is a platform in which a RFID reader is arranged; the reader can read the various nutrition information tables stored in the label of each physical model, and transmits the read nutrition information tables to the terminal extension set; the display equipment is used for outputting a processing result according to an instruction of the terminal extension set; the input equipment is used for inputting the basic information and exercise amount of users; the terminal extension set is used for storing, processing and analyzing data, and is provided with a healthy diet model and an energy balance model; and a standard nutrition intake information reference table of human bodies is stored in the healthy diet model.

A see-through, head mounted display and sensing devices cooperating to provide feedback on food items detected in the device field of view. Feedback can include warnings based on personal wearer needs, general nutrition information, food consumption tracking and social interactions. The system includes one or more processing devices in communication with display and the sensors which identify food items proximate to the apparatus, determine feedback information relevant to a wearer of the apparatus; and render feedback information in the display.

The invention discloses a nutritious food management system which comprises a detecting unit, a calculating unit and a selecting unit; the detecting unit detects the energy and nutrition information needed by human bodies and inputs the information to the calculating unit; the calculating unit calculates the respective doses of a plurality of foods needed by the human bodies according to the received information and inputs the calculated result to the selecting unit; the selecting unit selects one or a plurality of dishes from the matched and recorded dishes for matching according to the received result, finally forming a cookbook for a week. The full-automatic realizing method of the nutritious food management system is simple, accurate and highly effective, meets the standard of Chinese nutrition, and can realize the targets of reasonable combination and balanced diet of various foods.