Transformation system for optimization of nutritional substances at consumption

• US 9,902,511 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2012
• Issued: 02/27/2018
• 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): Tawfik, Sameh
• Application Number:
  US13/684,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20130269297A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,924 Days
• Field of Search: 53111 R
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 5/10 General methods of cooking foods, e.g. by roasting or frying
• CPC Class Codes: A23P 10/00 Shaping or working of foodstuffs characterised by the products
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 17/00 Other machines, apparatus, or methods for packaging articles or materials
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a transformation system to create a nutritional substance product that obtains information regarding the nutritional substance components to be transformed, the desired transformation, and the desired properties, including nutritional content, of the transformed nutritional substance, and dynamically modifies the transformation in response to this information to optimize a nutritional, organoleptic or aesthetic value of the nutritional substance product after it has been prepared for consumption.

Various component nutritional substances are individually or collectively transformed and preserved, then provided to consumers or conditioners in a format allowing retrieval of preparation instructions unique to the individual nutritional product at the time of preparation and intended to optimize a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value targeted by the transformer during transformation.

Claims

1. A system for transforming a nutritional substance comprising:

a nutritional substance; and

a transformation system for transforming said nutritional substance;

wherein

said transformation system comprises a packaging system for packaging said nutritional substance following transformation;

wherein

said packaging includes a dynamic information identifier with said nutritional substance following transformation, wherein

said dynamic information identifier contains Δ

N information for said nutritional substance, a target nutritional or organoleptic value of the nutritional substance, and a conditioning protocol executable by a controller that operates a conditioner, wherein the conditioning protocol has been modified based on the target nutritional or organoleptic value and the Δ

N information.

2. A system for transforming a nutritional substance according to claim 1 wherein the conditioning protocol comprises conditioning parameters, and wherein the conditioning parameters comprise time and temperature.

3. A system for transforming a nutritional substance according to claim 1 wherein:

the target nutritional or organoleptic value of the nutritional substance is selected by the transformer of the nutritional substance during transformation of said nutritional substance.

4. A system for transforming a nutritional substance comprising:

a nutritional substance comprising multiple components; and

a transformation system for transformation of said components and for packaging said components of the nutritional substance following transformation;

wherein

said transformation system provides a dynamic information identifier with said nutritional substance following transformation, wherein

said dynamic information identifier contains information providing an optimal nutritional or organoleptic value of at least one component to be attained following subsequent conditioning, and a conditioning protocol executable by a controller that operates a conditioner, wherein the conditioning protocol has been modified based on the optimal nutritional or organoleptic value.

5. A system for transforming a nutritional substance according to claim 4 wherein said controller further modifies said conditioning protocol responsive to measured attributes of the nutritional substance during conditioning.

6. A system for transforming a nutritional substance according to claim 5 wherein:

said optimal nutritional or organoleptic value of the nutritional substance is transmitted after conditioning.

7. A system for transforming a nutritional substance according to claim 5 wherein:

an attained nutritional or organoleptic value of the nutritional substance resulting from conditioning is associated with the dynamic information identifier.

8. A system for transforming a nutritional substance according to claim 5 wherein:

the conditioning protocol requires more than one conditioning device.

9. A system for transforming a nutritional substance according to claim 5 wherein:

the conditioning protocol requires the conditioning of multiple components using more than one set of conditioning parameters.

10. A system for transforming a nutritional substance according to claim 4 wherein:

the optimal nutritional or organoleptic value of the nutritional substance is determined by a transformer of the nutritional substance.

11. A system for transforming a nutritional substance according to claim 4 wherein;

more than one dynamic information identifier is provided with the nutritional substance and further wherein

each of said more than one dynamic information identifiers is associated with individual components of the nutritional substance.