Conditioning System For Nutritional Substances

• US 20170208850A1
• Filed: 04/07/2017
• Published: 07/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Iceberg International SARL
• Original Assignee: Iceberg International SARL
• Inventors: Minvielle, Eugenio
• Granted Patent: US 9,877,504 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
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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.

Claims

1. A method of dynamically conditioning a nutritional substance comprising the steps of:

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; and

modifying 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.

2. A method of dynamically conditioning a nutritional substance according to claim 1 wherein

said calculated change in nutritional information is transmitted to at least one of a consumer of the nutritional substance and a dynamic nutritional substance database for the nutritional substance prior to, during, or after conditioning.

3. A method of dynamically conditioning a nutritional substance according to claim 1 wherein

the nutritional substance is conditioned according to the modified conditioning instructions.

4. A method of dynamically conditioning a nutritional substance according to claim 1 wherein the conditioning instructions are further modified by at least one of a nutritional, organoleptic, and aesthetic value observed by a consumer of the nutritional substance and transmitted to a controller of a conditioner or to the dynamic nutritional substance database.

5. A method of dynamically conditioning a nutritional substance according to claim 1 wherein source information and at least one of a nutritional, organoleptic, and aesthetic value desired by a consumer or achieved by conditioning is transmitted to a nutritional substance consumer database or a dynamic nutritional substance database.