Restaurant Dish Ingredient Verification for Precise Nutrition Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumers face difficulties in obtaining exact ingredient and nutritional information for restaurant meals, which hinders healthy eating habits and personalized dietary choices.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that collect ingredient information through user feedback and manager confirmation, providing personalized nutritional information based on meal records and health data, and enabling recipe simulation and recommendation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If nutritional management applications provide general food nutritional information, then users can access basic nutritional data, but users cannot obtain exact ingredient and nutritional information of specific dishes at restaurants
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces restaurant managers as intermediaries who verify and confirm dish ingredient information. The system sends collected ingredient data to restaurant managers for verification, and only verified information is provided to users. This intermediary mechanism resolves the contradiction by ensuring information accuracy without requiring direct access to restaurant kitchens.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback loop where user-collected ingredient information is sent to restaurant managers for verification, and the verified information is fed back into the database. This feedback mechanism ensures that nutritional information maintains high precision while being continuously updated and validated against actual restaurant data.
2Reliability
If the system collects ingredient information from multiple users and restaurant managers, then information accuracy improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system serves multiple functions: collecting ingredient data from users, verifying data with restaurant managers, storing verified information in a database, and providing nutritional analysis. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems into one unified platform, managing complexity while improving reliability through multiple verification sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines user-submitted ingredient information with restaurant manager verification into a single integrated information collection process. Rather than maintaining separate systems for user reports and restaurant data, the system merges these sources and processes them together through a unified verification workflow, improving reliability without proportionally increasing complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system provides personalized nutritional recommendations based on health status, then dietary suitability improves, but information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary processing by pre-calculating nutritional information for each dish based on verified ingredient data. When users provide their health status and meal selections, the system only needs to retrieve pre-processed nutritional data and compare it against user requirements, rather than performing complex calculations in real-time. This reduces energy consumption while maintaining personalized adaptability.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for collecting ingredient information for each dish at a restaurant and providing information on nutrients consumed by date based on restaurant visit information, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for verifying basic information for each dish at an individual restaurant collected from a first user based on feedback from a plurality of second users, confirmation from restaurant managers, etc., thereby collecting ingredient information for each dish at the individual restaurant and providing information on nutrients consumed by date based on restaurant visit information of a third user.