CONDITIONING SYSTEM FOR NUTRITIONAL SUBSTANCES
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1. A conditioner system for nutritional substances comprising:
- a controller for obtaining source information regarding a nutritional substance to be conditioned;
a microprocessor for receiving said source information and, based upon said source information, estimating a Δ
N associated with a change in one or more of a nutritional, organoleptic and aesthetic value of the nutritional substance depending upon a proposed conditioning; and
a conditioner for conditioning the nutritional substance using conditioning parameters adapted in response to the source information.
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Abstract
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.
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18 Claims
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1. A conditioner system for nutritional substances comprising:
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a controller for obtaining source information regarding a nutritional substance to be conditioned; a microprocessor for receiving said source information and, based upon said source information, estimating a Δ
N associated with a change in one or more of a nutritional, organoleptic and aesthetic value of the nutritional substance depending upon a proposed conditioning; anda conditioner for conditioning the nutritional substance using conditioning parameters adapted in response to the source information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of dynamically conditioning a nutritional substance comprising the steps of:
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obtaining source information regarding a preconditioning Δ
N associated with preconditioning changes in one or more of a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value of the nutritional substance;obtaining conditioning instructions for the nutritional substance; calculating any post-conditioning Δ
N associated with post conditioning changes in said one or more nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value of the nutritional substance using the source information and the conditioning information; andmodifying the conditioning instructions using the source information, wherein the conditioning instructions are modified so as to preserve at least one of said nutritional, organoleptic and aesthetic value of the nutritional substance. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system for conditioning nutritional substances comprising:
a dynamic nutritional substance database containing source information and dynamically generated nutritional information for a nutritional substance to be conditioned; and a dynamic information identifier for allowing retrieval of said information from the dynamic nutritional substance database; and a reader for recognition of said dynamic information identifier; and a controller for retrieving said information from the dynamic nutritional substance database and adaptively modifying conditioning parameters responsive to said information. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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