System for managing the nutritional content for nutritional substances
View Patent ↗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.
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 ΔN, where ΔN 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 ΔN 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 ΔN, wherein
ΔN 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 ΔN, wherein ΔN 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.