Food manufacturing method

1 . A food manufacturing method comprising:

providing a food manufacturing support apparatus comprising:

an ingredient information storage unit in which two or more pieces of ingredient information are stored, the ingredient information each having one or more pieces of feature value specifying information for specifying an amount of each of one or more feature values contained in an ingredient of food, and an ingredient identifier for specifying the ingredient; a feature value recipe identifier information accepting unit; a determining unit; and an ingredient amount specifying information output unit, and an association table storage unit in which an association table containing two or more pieces of association information is stored, the association information each indicating association between a feature value recipe identifier for identifying a group of two or more pieces of feature value specifying information, and two or more pieces of feature value pair information containing feature value specifying information associated with feature values;

a feature value recipe identifier information accepting step of the feature value recipe identifier information accepting unit accepting one feature value recipe identifier of two or more feature value recipe identifiers;

a determining step of the determining unit determining two or more ingredients and amounts of the ingredients that satisfy two or more pieces of feature value specifying information of the two or more feature values specified with the feature value recipe identifier information accepted in the feature value recipe identifier information accepting step, referring to the two or more pieces of ingredient information stored in the ingredient information storage unit; and

an ingredient amount specifying information output step of the ingredient amount specifying information output unit outputting ingredient amount specifying information regarding the amounts of the ingredients in association with ingredient identifiers for respectively specifying the two or more ingredients determined in the determining step,

wherein the determining step includes:

acquiring two or more pieces of feature value specifying information of two or more feature values corresponding to a feature value recipe identifier, which is feature value recipe identifier information accepted by the feature value recipe identifier information accepting unit, from the association table storage unit; and

determining two or more ingredients and amounts of the ingredients that satisfy the two or more pieces of feature value specifying information acquired by the feature value specifying information acquiring part,

wherein the food is a beverage, and

wherein the two or more feature values are each obtained through dimensional compression of an aroma component contained in an ingredient of the beverage or a taste component contained in an ingredient of the beverage,

the method further comprising:

an ingredient taking-out step of taking out two or more ingredients in the amounts specified with the respective pieces of the ingredient amount specifying information of the ingredients output by the ingredient amount specifying information output step, from an ingredient storage in which two or more ingredients are stored, and

a food production step of producing the food using the two or more ingredients taken out in the ingredient taking-out step.

2 . The food manufacturing method according to claim 1 , wherein the feature values are each based on a chemical component contained in food.

3 . The food manufacturing method according to claim 2 , wherein the two or more feature values are each obtained through dimensional compression of a chemical component contained in food.

4 . The food manufacturing method according to claim 1 , wherein the ingredient is a substance derived from a living organism.

5 . The food manufacturing method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a recipe information accepting step that accepts recipe information having a feature value recipe identifier, and one or more pieces of ingredient amount pair information, each of which is a pair of an ingredient identifier and ingredient amount specifying information for specifying an amount of an ingredient; and

an association information accumulating step that acquires one or more pieces of feature value specifying information for specifying amounts of one or more feature values paired with an ingredient identifier contained in each of one or more pieces of ingredient amount pair information contained in the recipe information, from the ingredient information storage unit, configures association information having the one or more pieces of feature value specifying information and the feature value recipe identifier contained in the one or more pieces of ingredient amount pair information contained in the recipe information, and accumulates the association information.

6 . The food manufacturing method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a feature value specifying information receiving step that receives feature value specifying information associated with each of two or more feature values, using a feature value recipe identifier accepted by the feature value recipe identifier information accepting step from an information processing apparatus including an association table storage unit in which an association table containing two or more pieces of association information is stored, the association information each indicating association between a feature value recipe identifier and feature value specifying information associated with each of two or more feature values,

wherein the determining step determines two or more ingredients and amounts of the ingredients that satisfy two or more pieces of feature value specifying information received by the feature value specifying information receiving step, referring to the two or more pieces of ingredient information stored in the ingredient information storage unit.