61 results about "Food selections" patented technology

A system and method for selecting, ordering and distributing customized food products is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method is a computer-implemented method comprising viewing a list of additives for creating a customized food product, selecting one or more additives from the list of additives to create the customized food product, and transmitting a request to purchase the customized food product, which is then distributed to the consumer. By communicating with the manufacturer as to personal needs and desires pertaining to health, activity level, organoleptic preferences and so forth, the consumer can now develop and order a customized food product to suit his or her particular tastes, using a real-time interactive communication link.

A methodology for customers seeking to purchase a meal from a food service vendor such as a restaurant, a cafeteria, or a vending machine, by ordering a food preparation based upon menu-selections. In addition to receiving ordered food, customers receive suggestions for optionally modifying their food orders based upon nutritional benefits and other criteria. Either during real-time customer-ordering or during post-ordering, a food-service vendor presents a customer suggestions specific to a pending tentative or completed order, wherein the customer may enjoy purported nutritional benefits by electing to follow these suggestions and thereby modify the tentative order into a corresponding completed order. Alternatively, the customer may elect to ignore these suggestions, but may nonetheless decide to effect such food-ordering modifications during subsequent visits. The food selection criteria implemented by a food service vendor is independent of individual customer identity and preferences, and are flexible and readily adaptable to accommodate changes such as a food service vendor's marketing strategy, customer-food preferences, discoveries pertaining to nutrition and consequent good health; and may be adapted to a plethora of food service environments. The preferred embodiment contemplates a restaurant environment in which customers typically approach a food-ordering counter and interface with both a menu display and with order-taking personnel. Other embodiments implicate kiosks, vending machines, remote access devices, and locally and remotely-accessed networked computers, wherein customers interact with automated computer-driven devices instead of or in addition to wait-staff or other food service personnel.

System and method to determine user compliance with personalized diet and exercise plans by analyzing responses to messages about the plans. An expert system has a number of stored messages and display characteristics from which it chooses. The expert system generates message relating to the user's diet or physical activity that are sent to a user's mobile device and analyzes responses. Display characteristics change periodically and compliance data relating to the user's adherence to the plan when certain display characteristics are used is stored (e.g., meal plan adherence, acceptance of specific food selections, and adherence to instructions and advice in messages). The expert system then determines which messages and display characteristics achieve the greatest compliance to the dietary and physical activity schedule and goals.

A consumer user interface for a point of sale food selection system is modified based on certain dietary requirements. The system and method may be applied to point of sale kiosks as well as wireless data devices for use in restaurants, delis, cafeterias, coffee shops and other food retail environments. During the process of ordering, the interface determines a user's preference for one or more dietary requirements. Once the preferences are determined, subsequent choices for an order may be suggested, highlighted, recommended, parsed, or otherwise modified to aid the consumer in selecting meals that are tailored to their individual preferences.

An integrated shopping and order fulfillment method and system is described whereby the customer is able to tailor her grocery shopping list according to her selected preferences from the product inventory offered by a retailer grocer and viewable on the user's mobile phone device. Once the order is placed, the system initiates its order fulfillment methodology whereby a unique barcode is generated for tracking all packages associated with the order. The items are sorted according to their assigned perishability ranking to generate a packing order list for use by the retailer grocer. The packing order list provides an optimized packing order schedule to ensure the freshness of all perishable items upon the order's pickup and delivery. Selected preferences may include red alert options to warn the consumer of an undesired level of a designated ingredient and black out options to eliminate the posting of a particular food type during shopping.

A computer implemented method and a hotel room restaurant delivery system (HRRDS) for ordering food from a restaurant for delivery to a hotel room via an electronic device in the hotel room are provided. The HRRDS determines and renders information, advertisements, and promotions of restaurants proximal to the hotel room from a restaurant network on the electronic device based on a food urgency level and predetermined user criteria. The HRRDS receives a restaurant selection and a food selection of food items from an associated food menu through one or more interface elements. The HRRDS generates a sale order with user information and a net payable amount for the selected food items and performs one or more actions associated with the sale order, in communication with a restaurant management and delivery system of a selected restaurant via a communication network, for delivering the selected food items to the hotel room.

A heated food vending machine has a front with a) slots for dispensing the food and for accepting money, b) a video screen and c) several depressible buttons. Inside the machine is a refrigerator with a roof having an openable door and a side having a fastenable door for refilling with food in covered pans. Inside the refrigerator is a horizontally rotating apparatus with stations supporting stacks of food in covered pans. An elevator below the openable door elevates a station, raising the top pan above the door. The food cover is removed by a special roller apparatus. On top of the refrigerator are arms radiating from a central hub, which are rotate horizontally. Spaces between the arms contain food pans, which rotate to an oven with heating elements above and below the pizza. A computer controls the food selection and the refrigerator and oven temperatures.

The invention discloses an intelligent food and beverage service system. According to the system, by means of the currently popular graph code scanning technology such as two-dimensional codes, a graph code capable of providing a dining table number and an electronic menu for a follow-up service side is arranged on each dining table, a consumer scans the graph code on the corresponding dining table with a mobile phone or other mobile terminals to acquire the electronic menu, browse the menu, order and select the paying method such as mobile phone payment or other direct or after-dinner payment methods, and after the paying method is selected, a bar counter and a kitchen service terminal are informed of order information through a server; in this way, the number of waiters needed is reduced greatly, intelligentization of the whole processes of menu acquisition, food selection, payment, ordering and order processing in the kitchen is realized, the operating cost of a food and beverage enterprise is reduced, the independence on a large number of waiters is reduced, and the occurrence of unpleasant things between waiters and consumers caused by the low service level and poor service attitude of waiters is reduced.

The invention discloses fermented black allium chinensis food and a preparation method thereof and relates to the field of processing of agricultural products. The fermented black allium chinensis food is prepared by the following steps: fermenting the allium chinensis which is treated in advance for 5 to 6 days under the conditions of temperature of 62 to 76 DEG C and humidity of 95 to 100 percent; drying; packaging; and sterilizing. The product has fine mouthfeel and is slagless, sweet, fragrant and mellow. The product can be prepared into different flavors by adding different condiments and is tasty and refreshing when serving as a dinner dish. The preparation process is simple, so that industrialized production is promoted; the product has long storage life, so that commercialization is promoted; and the requirements of people on food selection are met.

A method and system for improving a user's food selections by comparing one or more attributes of a food selection, such as nutritional profile, to one or more subjective criteria, such as a user's medical conditions, food allergies, and preferences for certain types of foods (vegan or vegetarian), and / or objective criteria, such objective food scores for the food selection, to provide a user with information regarding the relative healthfulness of a particular item compared to another and to incentivize the user to select more healthful items. Alternative items of equal or better food score may be suggested. A user's selections and scores for those selections are tracked over time to allow for comparisons to the user's prior data and to data for other user's having one or more common attributes to provide a competitive incentive for improvements. Rewards may also be provided for improvements or positive selections.

The present invention relates to methods and systems for preparing a health condition-specific eating plan for a subject that is based on personal healthcare information from the subject. The personal healthcare information from the subject is used to identify the preexistence of one or more health conditions, as well as the risk for developing health conditions in the future. This information is then used to generate a list of foods that are beneficial for treating the health condition(s) if incorporated into the subject's eating plan. The customized selection of foods is based on the phytochemical content and density of the foods.

The invention discloses a food promotion and sales system based on the Internet. The system comprises a customer login end, a server and a member login end, wherein the customer login end comprises a member registration module, a food evaluation system, a freight charge payment system and a food free-try system, the server comprises a video information storage system and a food evaluation system, the customer login end is connected with the server through an information query module, output ends of the food evaluation system, the freight charge payment system and the food free-try application system are connected with an input end of the server through a network communication module, the member login end comprises a food evaluation system, a freight charge payment system, a food free-try system and a food selection system. The system is advantaged in that a server page is entered through the login end, in a browsing process, the relevant food can be rapidly searched through the information query module, whether the food is suitable for one's taste can be determined through applying free-try foods at the cost of a little of postage, and unnecessary cost can be reduced.

The invention provides a food supply table in a buffet restaurant and belongs to the filed of catering machines. Specifically, the table is characterized in that isolated operation is adopted, automatic delivering of dishes is achieved, the whole delivery process is transparent, self-help food selection is achieved, and self-help dish delivery is achieved. The table is composed of a dining table base, an outer dining table, a food taking button, a dish placement table, a conveying belt, an inner dining table, a pawl, a guide block, a disk pushing motor, a push rod, a food delivery table, dishes, an inner dining table upper board, an outer dining table upper board and a pawl controller. According to the food supply table in the buffet restaurant, the working efficiency of workers is improved, the labor intensity is reduced, the cleanness and hygiene of the food are ensured, the food taking efficiency of customers is improved, and the customer-accommodating capacity of the buffet restaurant is then improved.

The invention relates to a system for obtaining food selection information. The system includes a mobile device, a server, a smartphone terminal and graph coding; the mobile device sends the scanned graph coding to the server, the server performs authority verification on the mobile device, and after the mobile device passes the authority verification, the server marks the graph coding sent by the mobile terminal; the smartphone terminal sends graph coding information to the server, the server receives the graph coding and sends food ordering page information corresponding to the graph coding to the smartphone terminal, and the smartphone terminal obtains category information selected by a user in the food ordering page and sends the category information to the server; the server compares the graph coding sent by the smartphone terminal with the marked graph coding; and if the graph coding sent by the smartphone terminal is already marked in the server, the server receives the category information sent by the smartphone terminal and the server performs one-to-one binding of the smartphone terminal and the graph coding.

A system for identifying compatible meal options. The system includes a body analysis module configured to receive a user biological marker, select a clustering dataset from a clustering database, generate a hierarchical clustering algorithm and assign a plurality of user body measurements to a first classified dataset cluster. The system includes a food analysis module configured to select a food training set from a food database, generate using a supervised machine-learning process a food model, generate a food tolerance instruction set, and display on a graphical user interface the food tolerance instruction set. The system includes a menu generator module configured to select a menu training set from a menu database, generate using a supervised machine-learning process a menu model that produces an output containing a plurality of menu options, and display on a graphical user interface the plurality of menu options. The system includes a local selector module configured to receive a plurality of meal option inputs from a meal preparer device, generate a k-nearest neighbors algorithm, identify a plurality of compatible meal options, and display the plurality of compatible meal options on a graphical user interface.

The invention relates to a manufacturing method of spicy seasoning sauce. The method comprises the following steps: mincing beef taken as a main material, preserving the beef mince, preparing spices and a seasoning agent, performing multiple cooking on the spices, seasoning agent and the beef mince, putting fragrant paste for fresh improvement after the obtained product is condensed, and packing the product to obtain a final product. Through multiple cooking methods, the final product tastes spicy and strong, is delicious and crisp, is balanced in nutrition arrangement, and has a unique flavor. The method is simple in manufacture process, wide in food selection range, controllable in operation condition, and suitable for massive production.

The invention discloses a food nutrition real-time intake evaluation method which comprises the following steps: acquiring the user basic information and the individual health information and matchingthe corresponding nutrition database according to the user basic information and the individual health information, wherein the corresponding nutrition database includes the optimal intake amount ofmultiple nutrients required by the user; matching the nutrient value of the food in the food bank with the optimal intake amount of multiple nutrients required by the user so as to obtain the matchingvalue of each food in the food bank and the user; and selecting the food according to the matching value of the user and the food in the food bank. The food in the food bank is matched according to the user basic information and the individual health information through combination of the nutrient elements to obtain the corresponding matching value, accurate and real-time food selection is performed according to the matching value and the matching value is updated after selecting the food.

The invention discloses an intelligent auxiliary food taking nursing system and an auxiliary food taking method thereof. The intelligent auxiliary food taking nursing system comprises a central processing unit, a video acquisition module, a wireless communication module, a mechanical arm, a liquid crystal display module and an audio output module. The central processing unit recognizes and processes the facial image information acquired by the video acquisition module to generate food selection, eating and other instructions, and sends the instructions to the mechanical arm through the wireless communication module to execute corresponding operations. The liquid crystal display module and the audio output module directly receive instructions of the central processing unit, the liquid crystal display module displays patterns, surplus, selection results and the like of food in the dinner plate, and the audio output module plays related voice prompt information. According to the food taking nursing system and the auxiliary food taking method thereof, meal selecting and dining services can be provided for disabled old people, pregnant women and patients with cervical vertebra or head injuries and inconvenient movement, the human body activity law is met, and medical workers are freed from heavy nursing work.

The invention discloses an information processing device and a method. The device comprises a candidate image module and a food selection and output module, wherein the candidate image module is used for storing or obtaining a food image with a designated nutrition parameter to serve as a candidate object; the food selection and output module is used for obtaining a user command and selecting and outputting the food image to be shot from the candidate image module according to the user command. The method comprises the following steps: storing or obtaining the food image with the designated nutrition parameter to serve as the candidate object; and selecting and outputting the food image to be shot from the candidate food image. The invention also discloses portable equipment provided with the above device, such as drug infusion equipment, test equipment and the reagent carrier thereof. The invention can realize simply and intuitively guide nutrition recipe.

The invention relates to an automatic candy vending machine comprising a rack, a candy storage and selection unit, a bag storage and opening unit, and a bag sealing unit. The candy storage and selection unit comprises a plurality of candy storage barrels, a separator plate sub-unit arranged under the candy storage barrels, a push rod sub-unit connected with the separator plate sub-unit, a control unit used for controlling the push rods to move, and sensors arranged under the candy storage barrels to detect the decrements of weights of candies. The bag storage and opening unit is arranged under the candy storage and selection unit and is used for storing packing bags and opening the packing bags, comprising a bag storage frame used for holding the packing bags, a horizontal slide table, a vertical slide table and suckers arranged on the horizontal slide table and the vertical slide table. The bag sealing unit is arranged under the bag storage and opening unit and used for sealing the packing bags, comprising a hot sealing and cutting machine used for sealing the bags and a conveyor belt used for conveying the candy packing bags. Compared with the prior art, the machine can meet the requirement for autonomous food selection of customers and can complete weighing and packing work quickly with high working efficiency.

The invention discloses an automatic nutrition catering method and device, applied to fast food restaurants. The method comprises the steps of obtaining personal information of a user, and screening recommended dishes according to the personal information; searching a dinner plate for containing the recommended dishes, moving the dinner plate to a meal taking area; a user taking food from a food taking area, guaranteeing balanced nutrition intake. Scientific catering can be completed without manual operation of the user, the food selection efficiency is improved, and the problems that in an existing fast food restaurant, the user needs to select food manually, the speed is low, the number of people queuing for dining is large, nutrition intake is unbalanced due to catering of the user, andbody health is affected are solved.

The invention relates to a manufacturing method of super fresh curry rice-mixing sauce. The method comprises the following steps: mincing main materials including chicken dices, dried crab meat and dried peeled shrimps, preserving the main materials with potatoes and carrots, and performing boiling; manufacturing a chicken soup; putting a flavoring bag and sauce in for decoction; and performing cooling and packaging to obtain a final product. Through combination of multiple cooking methods, the sauce tastes spicy and strong, the meat is fresh and crisp, and the nutrition arrangement is balanced, and the sauce has a unique flavor. The method is simple in manufacture process, wide in food selection range, controllable in operation condition, and suitable for massive production.

The invention provides special traditional Chinese medicine buckwheat instant noodle and fine dried noodle for diabetic patients, an eating method thereof and a preparation method thereof. The buckwheat instant noodle and fine dried noodle comprise buckwheat flour and a decoction of the following traditional Chinese medicines: Chinese yam, radix astragali, white atractylodes rhizome, radix rehmanniae, cortex moutan radicis, rhizoma anemarrhenae, fructus ligustri lucidi, schisandra chinensis, radix paeoniae rubrathe and codonopsis pilosula. The instant noodle provided by the invention is for the diabetic patients to eat, has effects of benefiting vital energy, replenishing the vital essence, engendering liquid, allaying thirst, reducing blood sugar and so on, and is a very good food selection for diabetic patients. The instant noodle provided by the invention has the advantages of simple formula, simplicity for making and marketing potential.

The invention discloses an NFC-based automatic food supplying device. The device comprises a conveyer belt and a plurality of fast food boxes evenly distributed on the conveyer belt. Each fast food box comprises a tray used for accommodating a dinner plate and a cover, wherein the tray and the cover are matched, the tray is fixedly arranged on the conveyer belt, and the inner end of the cover is hinged to the inner end of the tray. A control mechanism sensing NFC signals of mobile phones and controlling the corresponding cover to open and close is arranged on each fast food box. By means of the NFC function of smartphones, the self-service dining requirement of customers is met, food selection, food taking and payment are integrated, service staff and cashiers are not needed, labor cost is greatly reduced for the foodservice industry, dining time is shortened, and service quality is improved.

The embodiment of the application discloses electronic devices, an information pushing method and related products. The method includes: scanning a plurality of reference foods through a substance detection sensor and a color sensor to obtain a first set of data of each reference food by detection; determining a quality score of each reference food according to the first set of data; and pushing at least one target food in the plurality of reference foods according to the quality score of each reference food. The embodiment of the application facilitates improving of accuracy and convenience of food selection.

The invention specifically discloses a processing method of flower honey. The processing method is characterized by comprising the following steps of compounding flowers with honey in the weight ratioof the flowers to the honey being (1-10) to (90-99), firstly removing impurities from the flowers, baking the flowers without impurities, crushing the baked flowers into flower powder, adding the flower powder to the honey which is heated to 110-115 DEG C, performing quick stirring for 10-60s, then performing quick cooling to room temperature, performing maceration at room temperature for 7 days,and then performing heating and filtration so as to obtain honeydew; and decocting the honeydew under the condition of 40-60 DEG C until the water content is 20-22% and the specific gravity is 1.32-1.34 so as to obtain a flower honey product. According to the processing method disclosed by the invention, the product namely the flower honey reserves specific aromatic smell of flower varieties, andbesides, nutrient substances in the flowers are effectively merged into the honey, so that new characteristics are added to honey products, people can obtain nutrition and essence of the flowers wheneating the honey, and new health-care food selection is added to health-preservation health-care requirements of people.

The purpose of this invention, “Eat Rite Baby” is to offer its users a visual interpretation of how proper nutrition and exercise influences appropriate weight maintenance and health. This deed will be accomplished through physical and interactive methods. Sensors placed in the doll's open mouth will react to sensors in accompanying foods which will stimulate the doll into action, thus allowing a simulated weight gain and subsequent weight loss. These sensors will be located within a box that will allow for wires to extend through the baby's body in order to transmit signals to areas that will change. Additionally, the doll will be accompanied by a cd that will further instruct the user on how to live a healthier lifestyle via proper food selections, exercises, food group choices, portion sizes, etc.