APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A VISUAL GRAPHICAL DISPLAY OF HEALTH QUALITY ON AN ITEM OF FOOD PACKAGING
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10. A method for a health quality indicator (HQI) of a human food item, comprising the steps of:
- a. providing a packaging of a food item and a health quality indicator (HQI) that is displayed on the packaging;
b. providing on the packaging the HQI an annotated graph with multiple time intervals that is visually displayed on a part of the packaging; and
c. illustrating by the HQI the digestion of the food item in an average human over substantially a two to four hour time period in the form of change in glucose levels.
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Abstract
A visual display of a graph on a packaging of a food item is displayed as guidance to the public of the health quality of the food item. The graph shows a rise of blood glucose level over a two hour time period from the consumption of the food item in a healthy adult as an indicator of a health quality of the food item.
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10. A method for a health quality indicator (HQI) of a human food item, comprising the steps of:
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a. providing a packaging of a food item and a health quality indicator (HQI) that is displayed on the packaging; b. providing on the packaging the HQI an annotated graph with multiple time intervals that is visually displayed on a part of the packaging; and c. illustrating by the HQI the digestion of the food item in an average human over substantially a two to four hour time period in the form of change in glucose levels. - View Dependent Claims (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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16-1. The method as in claim 10, comprising the steps of:
providing the food item is a fresh fruit or fresh vegetable, where the packaging is a ribbon or label.
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17. A method of determining a health quality indicator (HQI) of a human food item, comprising the steps of:
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a. indicating by a HQI a wholesomeness of the food item for effect on the health of a human by determining how it is digested and determining how the food item is digested by determining periodically an average blood glucose level in humans from a base level on ingesting a preset quantity of a food item and plotting the glucose level reading substantially every 15 minutes on a graph for a time period of 2 hours; b. analyzing from the graph, a change in glucose levels in sequential four half hour different intervals of time, for a health effect of the food item for determining the health quality of the food item and determining the health quality indicator by comparing the change in glucose levels in these four sequential intervals of time; c. adding user guidance on the graph, based on an analysis of change in glucose level in these four half hour intervals from one of, super healthy, healthy, good and poor and displaying the graph on a packaging of the food item. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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