Nutritional Substance Conditioning System Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

The food and beverage industry lacks a system-wide coordination for managing nutritional content across the entire cycle from creation to consumption, leading to minimal information being passed to consumers about the origin, preservation, processing, and consumption of nutritional substances, resulting in degradation of nutritional, organoleptic, and aesthetic values.

Innovation Solution

A system that transmits and uses information related to the source, packaging, and transformation of nutritional substances to optimize desirable nutritional, organoleptic, and aesthetic values, minimizing degradation, and providing consumers with real-time feedback and updates on changes in these values, allowing for informed selection and preparation of nutritional substances.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If the food and beverage industry operates as separate silos (growers, packagers, processors, distributors, retailers, preparers), then each group can focus on their specific tasks, but information regarding source, history, caloric content and nutritional content is not passed along to users

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation transmissionVSAvoidsystem coordination

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges previously separate information silos into a unified information system that tracks nutritional substances from creation through preservation, transformation, conditioning, and consumption. This integration allows comprehensive information about source, history, caloric content, and nutritional content to be maintained and transmitted across all industry participants and to consumers.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The information system is designed to serve multiple functions: tracking nutritional content, monitoring organoleptic properties, recording aesthetic values, and providing data to various stakeholders including consumers, industry participants, and regulatory bodies. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate information systems for each industry segment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Quantity of substance

If the industry focuses on increasing caloric and ingredients content to reduce starvation, then nutritional substance production increases, but nutritional content maintenance is not a priority and degradation occurs

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecaloric contentVSAvoidnutritional content

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements continuous feedback loops that monitor nutritional content throughout the supply chain. By tracking changes in caloric and nutritional content from creation through processing and preparation, the system provides real-time information that allows participants to adjust processes to maintain nutritional quality while managing quantity production.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes baseline nutritional content measurements at the creation stage and uses this preliminary data to set targets for maintaining nutritional quality throughout subsequent processing, preservation, and preparation stages. This proactive approach prevents degradation rather than reacting to it after the fact.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If comprehensive tracking and measurement systems are implemented across the entire cycle, then nutritional content management improves, but system complexity and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenutritional content trackingVSAvoidtracking system

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The comprehensive tracking system is segmented into modular components that can be implemented at different levels of the supply chain. Each participant (growers, packagers, processors, etc.) implements tracking appropriate to their specific operations, and these segments integrate into a unified system. This reduces the complexity burden on individual participants while maintaining overall measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

4Loss of information

If real-time information is provided to consumers about nutritional substance changes, then consumer awareness and informed selection improve, but information management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconsumer information accessVSAvoidinformation delivery

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates simplified information copies or representations of complex nutritional data that can be easily communicated to consumers. Rather than presenting raw measurement data, the system generates user-friendly information about nutritional content changes, organoleptic property variations, and aesthetic value metrics that consumers can understand and use for informed selection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS9877504B2Conditioning system for nutritional substances

Publication Date: 2018.01.30 ICEBERG LUXEMBOURG S A R L

AI summary

Disclosed herein is a conditioning system for nutritional substances. The conditioning system obtains information regarding the nutritional substance to be conditioned, the desired conditioning, and the desired properties, including nutritional content, of the conditioned nutritional substance, and dynamically controls the conditioning in response to this information optimize the organoleptic properties of the conditioned nutritional substance, while minimizing any detrimental changes to the nutritional content.