System for managing the nutritional content for nutritional substances

• US 8,550,365 B1
• Filed: 01/25/2013
• Issued: 10/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Iceberg International SARL
• Original Assignee: Iceberg International SARL
• Inventors: Minvielle, Eugenio
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, TUYEN KIM
• Application Number:
  US13/750,804
• Publication Number:
  US 20130275477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 256 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/451, 235/462.01, 235/492, 235/383, 235/385
• US Class Current: 235/492
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an information encoding, marking, tracking, and transmission system for information related to nutritional substances, including nutritional content. Upon the creation of a nutritional substance, whether grown, raised, caught, collected or synthesized, information regarding the nutritional substance is accumulated, encoded and referenced to the particular nutritional substance. This information can be marked directly on the nutritional substance, but can instead be stored elsewhere, and referenced to the nutritional substance by means of a marking, unique identifier, a unique inherent property, unique genetic attribute, or an induced genetic attribute. A consumer of the nutritional substance can use this reference to retrieve the information regarding the creation of the particular nutritional substance.

Claims

1. A dynamic information identification system for nutritional substances, comprising:

encoded information relating to the origin of a nutritional substance, the encoded information being encoded on or as part of the nutritional substance at least electronically, molecularly, chemically, genetically, or a combination thereof; and

dynamic information relating to a change in the nutritional content of the nutritional substance, wherein the dynamic information relating to the change in the nutritional content comprises at least two values correlated to the encoded information and obtained under different conditions to determine Δ

N, where Δ

N is at least one of a change in caloric, nutritional, organoleptic or aesthetic value of the nutritional substance; and

a storage system for storing the origin information and the dynamic information, including Δ

N values relating to the change in the nutritional content of the nutritional substance.

2. The dynamic information identification system of claim 1, further comprising a unique information identifier, wherein the unique information identifier is used to relate the origin information with the dynamic information relating to the change in the nutritional content of the nutritional substance stored in the storage system.

3. The dynamic information identification system of claim 1, wherein

the information relating to the origin is encoded on or as part of the nutritional substance in any one or more of a mechanical tag, an electronic tag, a molecular tag, a chemical tag or a combination thereof;

and

the encoded information is indicative of the origin of the nutritional substance; and

the encoded information is unique to a plurality of nutritional substances.

4. The dynamic information identification system of claim 3, further comprising a reader to read the encoded information, wherein the reader is any one or more of an optical reader, a mechanical reader, an electronic reader, a radio frequency reader, an electronic nose, or an assay to read molecular tags.

5. The dynamic information identification system of claim 3, wherein the mechanical tag is any one or more of a label, a barcode, a QR code or a combination thereof.

6. The dynamic information identification system of claim 3, wherein the electronic tag is a radio frequency identification tag.

7. The dynamic information identification system of claim 3, wherein the molecular tag is any one or more of a genetic markers, protein expression profile, microorganism biome, types and amounts of micronutrients, nanotechnology tags, ratios of carbon isotopes, gasses, aromas or a combination thereof.

8. The dynamic information identification system of claim 1, wherein

the change in caloric, nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value occurs during any one or more of creation of the nutritional substance, preservation of the nutritional substance, transformation of the nutritional substance, conditioning of the nutritional substance, consumption of the nutritional substance or a combination thereof.

9. The dynamic information identification system of claim 1, wherein the origin is any one or more of a specific farm, fishery, ranch, city, state, zip code, latitude and longitudinal positions or a combination thereof.

10. The dynamic information identification system of claim 1, wherein the storage system is a computer, a database, the cloud or a combination thereof.

11. A dynamic information identification system for nutritional substances comprising:

origin information about a nutritional substance, wherein the origin information is encoded in or about the nutritional substance in any one or more of a mechanical tag, an electronic tag, a molecular tag, a chemical tag or a combination thereof, and

the encoded information is unique to a plurality of nutritional substances, and

the encoded information is indicative of the origin of the nutritional substance; and

dynamic nutritional content information relating to a change in the nutritional content of the nutritional substance,

wherein the dynamic nutritional content information provides an initial source value to determine a Δ

N, wherein

Δ

N is a change in caloric, nutritional, organoleptic or aesthetic value of the nutritional substance, and

the change in caloric, nutritional, organoleptic or aesthetic value occurs during any one or more of creation of the nutritional substance, preservation of the nutritional substance, transformation of the nutritional substance, conditioning of the nutritional substance, consumption of the nutritional substance or a combination thereof; and

a reader to read the encoded information; and

an information storage system for storing the dynamic nutritional content information.

12. The dynamic information identification system of claim 11, further comprising a unique information identifier, wherein the unique information identifier is used to relate the encoded information with the dynamic nutritional content information stored in the storage system.

13. The dynamic information identification system of claim 11, wherein the reader is any one or more of an optical reader, a mechanical reader, an electronic reader, a radio frequency reader, an electronic nose, or an assay to read the molecular tags.

14. The dynamic information identification system of claim 11, wherein the origin information is related to any one or more of a specific farm, fishery, ranch, city, state, zip code, latitude and longitudinal positions or a combination thereof.

15. The dynamic information identification system of claim 11, wherein the mechanical tag is any one or more of a label, a barcode, a QR code or a combination thereof.

16. The dynamic information identification system of claim 11, wherein the electronic tag is a radio frequency identification tag.

17. The dynamic information identification system of claim 11, wherein the molecular tag is any one or more of a genetic markers, protein expression profile, microorganism biome, types and amounts of micronutrients, nanotechnology tags, ratios of carbon isotopes, gasses, aromas or a combination thereof.

18. The dynamic information identification system of claim 11, wherein the storage system is a computer, a database, the cloud or a combination thereof.

19. A method for generating a dynamic nutritional value table for a nutritional substance, comprising:

obtaining origin information about the nutritional substance;

wherein

the origin information is encoded in or about the nutritional substance in any one or more of a mechanical tag, an electronic tag, a molecular tag, a chemical tag or a combination thereof, and

the encoded information is unique to a plurality of nutritional substances, and

the encoded information is indicative of the origin of the nutritional substance; and

obtaining dynamic information relating to changes in the nutritional content of the nutritional substance;

wherein the dynamic information relating to changes in the nutritional content provides an initial source value to determine a Δ

N, wherein Δ

N is a change in caloric, nutritional, organoleptic or aesthetic value of the nutritional substance; and

assigning a unique information identifier, wherein the unique information identifier is used to relate the encoded information with the information relating to changes in the nutritional content; and

storing the information relating to changes in the nutritional content in a storage system, so as to generate a dynamic nutritional value table for the nutritional substance.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the origin information is related to any one or more of a specific farm, fishery, ranch, city, state, zip code, latitude and longitudinal positions or a combination thereof.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the mechanical tag is any one or more of the label, a barcode, a QR code or a combination thereof.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the electronic tag is a radio frequency identification tag.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein the molecular tag is any one or more of a genetic markers, protein expression profile, microorganism biome, types and amounts of micronutrients, nanotechnology tags, ratios of carbon isotopes, gasses, aromas or a combination thereof.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein the storage system is a computer, a database, the cloud or a combination thereof.

25. The method of claim 19, wherein the change in caloric, nutritional, organoleptic or aesthetic value of the nutritional substance occurs during any one or more of creation of the nutritional substance, preservation of the nutritional substance, transformation of the nutritional substance, conditioning of the nutritional substance, consumption of the nutritional substance or a combination thereof.