Transformation system for nutritional substances

• US 8,668,140 B2
• Filed: 05/22/2013
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• 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): LE, THIEN MINH
• Application Number:
  US13/900,426
• Publication Number:
  US 20130269544A1
• Time in Patent Office: 293 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/383
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: A23P 10/00 Shaping or working of foodstuffs characterised by the products
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/02 Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a transformation system for at least one component of a single or multi-component nutritional substance. The transformation system obtains information regarding the nutritional substance 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.

Claims

1. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances comprising:

a dynamic information identifier associated with at least one component of a single or multiple component nutritional substance, wherein

the dynamic information identifier allows retrieval of source information for the component nutritional substance associated with it, wherein

said source information comprises dynamically generated information reflecting a state or change in state of the component nutritional substance prior to adaptive transformation;

a transformer for adaptive transformation of said single or multiple component nutritional substances with processing parameters responsive to said source information to create an adaptively transformed nutritional substance;

a dynamic nutritional value database for storage of said source information and information related to said adaptive transformation, said dynamic nutritional value database containing information regarding a Δ

N, wherein Δ

N is a change in a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value of one or more component nutritional substances, information derived or estimated using said Δ

N, related date of maturation, stabilization, or related expiration of one or more component nutritional substances; and

a dynamic nutritional value table for presentation of said Δ

N, information derived or estimated using said Δ

N, related date of maturation, stabilization, or related expiration of one or more component nutritional substances.

2. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances according to claim 1 wherein:

said processing parameters are adapted to said source information for optimization of a desired property of the adaptively transformed nutritional substance.

3. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances according to claim 1 wherein:

said processing parameters are adapted to said source information for optimization of a desired property of one or more of said component nutritional substances.

4. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances according to claim 1 further comprising:

a dynamic information identifier associated with the adaptively transformed nutritional substance allowing retrieval of said source information or information related to said adaptive transformation or said Δ

N, information derived or estimated using said Δ

N, maturation, stabilization or expiration date or data associated with one or more of said component nutritional substances.

5. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances according to claim 1 wherein:

said source information further comprises information demonstrating origination or content of one or more of said component nutritional substances.

6. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances according to claim 1 wherein:

one or more of said component nutritional substances has been previously preserved, packaged or transformed.

7. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances according to claim 6 wherein:

said source information further comprises information demonstrating origination or content of one or more of said previously preserved, packaged or transformed component nutritional substances.

8. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances according to claim 1 further comprising:

a device for retrieval of said source information using the dynamic information identifier.

9. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances according to claim 1 further comprising:

a device for retrieval of said source information or information related to said adaptive transformation using a dynamic information identifier associated with the adaptively transformed nutritional substance.

10. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances from one or more component nutritional substances, the system comprising:

a dynamic information identifier associated with each component nutritional substance for allowing retrieval of dynamically generated source information for the component nutritional substances,

said source information comprising at least one of a nutritional value, an organoleptic value, or an aesthetic value of the component nutritional substance;

a transformer for adaptive transformation of said component nutritional substances with processing parameters responsive to said source information for improvement, maintenance, or minimization of degradation of the nutritional value, the organoleptic value, or the aesthetic value of one or more component nutritional substances following adaptive transformation;

a dynamic nutritional value database for storage of said source information and information related to said adaptive transformation, said dynamic nutritional value database containing information regarding the nutritional value, organoleptic value, or aesthetic value of the one or more component nutritional substances, information derived or estimated using said values, related date of maturation, stabilization, or related expiration of one or more component nutritional substances; and

a dynamic nutritional value table for presentation of information derived from said dynamically generated source information or information related to said improvement, maintenance, or minimization of degradation;

wherein said presentation of information comprises a Δ

N or information indicated by a Δ

N, a maturation, stabilization or expiration date or data associated with the Δ

N, and wherein Δ

N is a change in a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value of one or more component nutritional substances.

11. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances from one or more component nutritional substances according to claim 10 wherein:

said dynamically generated source information is useful for indicating a Δ

N, a maturation, stabilization or expiration date or data associated with the Δ

N, and wherein Δ

N is a change in a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value of one or more component nutritional substances occurring prior to said adaptive transformation;

said change comprising any of a maintenance, improvement, or degradation; and

the dynamic information identifier associated with one or more component nutritional substances further allows retrieval of information demonstrating origination or content of said component nutritional substance.

12. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances from one or more component nutritional substances according to claim 10 wherein:

one or more of said component nutritional substances has been previously preserved, packaged or transformed.

13. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances from one or more component nutritional substances according to claim 12 wherein:

source information for said previously preserved, packaged, or transformed component nutritional substances is useful for indicating a Δ

N, a maturation, stabilization or expiration date or data associated with the Δ

N, and wherein Δ

N is a change in a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value of said previously preserved, packaged or transformed component nutritional substance occurring prior to said adaptive transformation; and

the dynamic information identifier associated with said previously preserved, packaged or transformed component nutritional substance further allows retrieval of information demonstrating origination or content of said previously preserved, packaged or transformed component nutritional substance.

14. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances from one or more component nutritional substances according to claim 10 further comprising:

a dynamic information identifier associated with the adaptively transformed nutritional substance allowing retrieval of said dynamically generated source information or information related to said improvement, maintenance, or minimization of degradation;

the information available for retrieval comprising a Δ

N, information derived or estimated using a Δ

N, maturation, stabilization or expiration date or data associated with the Δ

N, wherein Δ

N is a change in a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value of one or more component nutritional substances.

15. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances from one or more component nutritional substances according to claim 14 further comprising:

a device for retrieval of the information using the dynamic information identifier associated with the adaptively transformed nutritional substance.

16. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances from one or more component nutritional substances according to claim 15, wherein:

said device comprises a nutritional substance conditioner.

17. A system for creating adaptively transformed nutritional substances from one or more component nutritional substances according to claim 10 further comprising:

a device for retrieval of said dynamically generated source information or a related Δ

N, date of maturation, stabilization, or expiration, or information demonstrating origination or content, using the dynamic information identifier associated with each component nutritional substance.

18. A system for generating a dynamic nutritional value table for a nutritional substance comprising:

a device for accessing and storing source information for the nutritional substance, and

subsequent information for the nutritional substance, said subsequent information having been dynamically ascertained by at least one of a measurement of the nutritional substance or preservation information related to the nutritional substance or transformation information related to the nutritional substance; and

a dynamic nutritional value table generated from said source information and said subsequent information about the nutritional substance, and including a Δ

N or information indicated by a Δ

N, wherein Δ

N is a change in a nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value of the nutritional substance and said change comprises any of a maintenance, improvement, or degradation, and information derived or estimated using said Δ

N, related date of maturation, stabilization, or related expiration of one or more component nutritional substances.

19. A system for generating a dynamic nutritional value table for a nutritional substance according to claim 18 wherein:

said source information comprises source information for multiple component nutritional substances;

said dynamic nutritional value table comprises the Δ

N or information indicated by the Δ

N for said multiple component nutritional substances.

20. A system for generating a dynamic nutritional value table for a nutritional substance according to claim 19 wherein:

one or more of said component nutritional substances has been previously preserved, packaged or transformed;

thereby changing the Δ

N or information indicated by the Δ

N for said previously preserved, packaged or transformed component nutritional substance.

21. A system for generating a dynamic nutritional value table for a nutritional substance according to claim 19 further comprising:

using the Δ

N or information indicated by the Δ

N for said multiple component nutritional substances to indicate a rate of loss of a nutritional value, an organoleptic value, or an aesthetic value of said multiple component nutritional substances.

22. A system for generating a dynamic nutritional value table for a nutritional substance according to claim 18, wherein:

said nutritional substance comprises one or more component nutritional substances, said component nutritional substances having been, or

not having been, previously preserved, packaged or transformed; and

said source information further demonstrates origination or content of one or more of said component nutritional substances.

23. A system for generating a dynamic nutritional value table for a nutritional substance according to claim 18 further comprising:

a dynamic information identifier for accessing the dynamic nutritional value table or for accessing said source information and said subsequent information from which the dynamic nutritional value table can be indicated.

24. A system for generating a dynamic nutritional value table for a nutritional substance according to claim 18 wherein:

said Δ

N or information indicated by said Δ

N presented by the dynamic nutritional value table indicates one or more of a nutritional value, an organoleptic value, an aesthetic value, date of maturation, stabilization or expiration of the nutritional substance.

25. A system for generating a dynamic nutritional value table for a nutritional substance according to claim 18 wherein:

said Δ

N or information indicated by said Δ

N presented by the dynamic nutritional value table indicates a best consumption date of the nutritional substance.

26. A system for generating a dynamic nutritional value table for a nutritional substance according to claim 18 wherein:

said Δ

N or information indicated by said Δ

N presented by the dynamic nutritional value table indicates a perceived qualitative value of the nutritional substance.

27. A system for generating a dynamic nutritional value table for a nutritional substance according to claim 18 wherein:

the dynamic nutritional value table indicates compliance with a predetermined consumer profile or current consumer query.