519 results about "Nutritional status" patented technology

Systems and methods for continuous measurement of a medicament in vivo are provided. In some embodiments, the system is configured to provide information associated with medicament titration and includes a continuous analyte sensor and a communication device. In some embodiments, the system is configured for continuous ambulatory drug testing, including an ambulatory host monitor having a continuous sensor, a location module, a processor module and a transmitter. In some embodiments, the system is configured for continuously monitoring a hormone level and includes a continuous hormone sensor and a communication device configured to output hormone information in real time. Yet another embodiment provides an analyte sensor for continuous monitoring of a host's nutritional status, and is configured for both continuous glucose detection and continuous albumin detection.

The invention provides a formulation for a special prandial food, which contains short peptides and is provided for tumor sufferers to eat. The food uses food-originated short peptides as raw materials which are added with extracts of medical-edible Chinese herbal medicines such as champignons, dried orange peels, Chinese wolfberry, yams, tuckahoes, rhizoma polygonati, and the like, and compound complex formulation. With the food formulation, powdered or granular foods can be prepared and are dissolved with warm water to eat. The food prepared according to the formulation is easy to dissolve, can be absorbed and utilized quickly, provides a high quality nitrogen source for organisms, supplements various vitamins and minerals necessary for a human body, can correct the negative nitrogen balance of the tumor sufferers, improve the nutritional status of the tumor sufferers, and can play a role in improving organism immunity and suppressing and resisting cancers through the combined action of various factors such as bioactive components, the functional oligosaccharides, and the like in the food-originated short peptides and the extracts of the medical-edible Chinese herbal medicines, thus the food is suitable for the tumor sufferers, particularly for cancer patients who receive radiation therapy and chemotherapy to eat.

A process for analyzing the nutrient status of plant matter and / or soil for one or more nutrients selected from among calcium, potassium, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, magnesium, chlorine, iron, boron, manganese, zinc, copper, nickel and molybdenum is described and includes contacting said plant matter and / or soil with a laser source capable of inducing breakdown of the sample whereby an emission from said sample occurs; and, analyzing said spectral emission for determination of an amount of said one or more nutrients. A process for analyzing the heavy metal content of plant matter and / or soil, or of fertilizers or soil amendments is also described.

A method and system for presenting nutritional information about food products. The method involves gathering nutritional data about food products, analyzing that data to determine a nutritional value, scoring the product, and applying a designation reflecting the nutritional score. The nutritional value score designation is then displayed at the point of sale for observation by customers. The system includes a data gathering function, a data analyzing function, a data storing function, a scoring function, a reporting function and a display function to perform the steps of the method described.

The invention discloses a crop growth information monitoring system and method based on internet of things. The system comprises an information perception system, a wireless transmission system and anintelligent management system, wherein the information perception system includes a soil moisture content monitoring module, a plant disease and insect pest monitoring module, a crop nutrition statemonitoring module, a weed monitoring module and a crop condition monitoring module. After crop planting, relevant information and threshold values of a crop growth environment are set through an intelligent management system interface, the soil moisture content, diseases and insect pests, nutritional status, weed growth and growth vigor information of growing crops are acquired through the perception system in real time and are sent to a server for data storage, analysis and display, if the information exceed threshold values, workers are remind of corresponding processing, plants are helped to accurately judge the crop growth conditions, real-time effective decision information is provided for accurate operation, the problem is solved that the crop growth conditions in planting field pieces need to be checked regularly in traditional planting process and accordingly the labor intensity is high, the labor cost is reduced, and the operating efficiency and accuracy are improved.

This invention concerns new methods and compositions that are useful in preventing and ameliorating cachexia, the clinical syndrome of poor nutritional status and bodily wasting associated with cancer and other chronic diseases. More particularly, the invention relates to aromatic guanylhydrazone (more properly termed amidinohydrazone) compositions and their use to inhibit the uptake of arginine by macrophages and / or its conversion to urea. These compositions and methods are also useful in preventing the generation of nitric oxide (NO) by cells, and so to prevent NO-mediated inflammation and other responses in persons in need of same. In another embodiment, the compounds can be used to inhibit arginine uptake in arginine-dependent tumors and infections.

The invention discloses a big data agricultural management system. The system includes an Internet of things sensor platform, a big Data Analysis Platform, a meteorological warning and forecasting platform, a Platform for Disease and Pest Control and Disaster Early Warning, a real-time mobile monitoring platform, a Platform for Agricultural Management and Production Forecasting. The large-data agricultural management system realizes the collection of agricultural data in the agricultural greenhouse, data on human nutritional status, Genomic analysis of biological populations, analyzing of therelationship between the parameters of crop growing environment, forecast of weather conditions, the monitoring of agricultural products and food production environment, industrial chain management, pre-production, post-production, warehousing and processing, logistics data, the analysis of agricultural products sales price, sales volume, sales demand, consumer purchase behavior data, the releaseand management of meteorological data and other information, the development of disease and insect pests, the prediction of the scope of influence and the regulation of various equipment.

From the crop of a predetermined area in a plant field under exposure to natural light, a reflectivity of the light having relation to crop information such as nitrogen content rate is measured by a camera; the crop information as first crop information is obtained from the first crop related formula established in advance for obtaining the crop information from the reflectivity; light is irradiated on crop leaf blades in the same area as the predetermined area and an amount of the light is measured; the crop information as second crop information is obtained from the second crop related formula established in advance for obtaining the crop information from the amount of the light; differences are calculated from the first crop information and the second crop information; the first crop information is obtained from the unknown crop in the predetermined area within the crop field of the same area; the first crop information is corrected based on the differences; and the nutritious diagnosis of the crop in the field is conducted by the corrected first crop information. In conducting diagnosis of crop by measuring the reflection light amount from the crop, since compensation or correction is performed, no great errors occur caused by differences in the measurement locations and the planting densities, and the diagnosis of the crop is simple and easy and, more over, the precision in the measuring is enhanced.

The invention discloses a special dietary marine food for patients with coronary heart disease. The special dietary food is prepared from food-borne marine oligopeptides as a main raw material by adding marine bioactive polysaccharides and mixing with seawood meal, nutrient amino acids, oligosaccharides, nutrients, vitamins and mineral substances as auxiliary materials. The special dietary marinefood provided by the invention can be made into a powdery or granular food and is eaten after being dissolved in warm boiling water. The special dietary marine food provided by the invention is easy to dissolve, has greatest biological absorbability and greatest bioavailability on human bodies, provides high-quality marine proteins, active factors and nutrient components for organism, supplementsvarious vitamins and mineral substances necessary for human bodies, and is beneficial to improving the nutritional status of the patients with coronary heart disease. Through the combined action of multiple factors comprising the bioactive components, the seawood meal, the nutrient amino acids and the like in the food-borne marine oligopeptides and the marine bioactive polysaccharides, the symptoms of the patients with coronary heart disease can be improved, the immunity of organisms can be increased, and the occurrence of complications of coronary heart disease can be prevented. The special dietary marine food is applicable for patients with coronary heart disease.

A method for analyzing chlorophyll distribution on surface of leaves of a plant by hyperspectral image and independent component relates to a prediction method of chlorophyll distribution on surface of leaves of a plant. The method is implemented by the following steps: processing of hyperspectral image, analyzing and selecting of independent component, and calculating of chlorophyll distribution on surface of leaves of the plant. The processing of hyperspectral image comprises marking hyperspectral image and extracting spectrum; the analyzing and selecting of independent component comprises: analyzing and calculating the independent component by independent component method, and selecting the optimal independent component according to the regression analysis result; the calculating of chlorophyll distribution on surface of leaves of the plant means using the selected optimal independent component and the model to calculate chlorophyll content value of each point on the surface of leaves to constitute a chlorophyll distribution graph. Under the prerequisite of not damaging the surface of leaves, the chlorophyll content distribution graph obtained in the invention not only can indicate the local chlorophyll content of the leaves, but also can obtain the distribution situation of chlorophyll on the whole surface of the leaves, thus providing basis for intelligent judgment of nutrition situation of the plant.

The invention provides a formulation for a special prandial food, which contains short peptides and is provided for diabetics to eat. The food uses food-originated short peptides as raw materials which are added with extracts of medical-edible Chinese herbal medicines such as yams, mulberry leaves, kudzuvine roots, rhizoma polygonati, corn silks, tuckahoes, ebonies, polygonatums, and the like, and are supplemented with oligosaccharides, vitamins and minerals to form a compound formulation. With the food formulation, powdered or granular foods can be prepared and are dissolved with warm water to eat. The food prepared according to the formulation is easy to dissolve, can be absorbed and utilized quickly, provides a high quality nitrogen source for organisms, supplements various vitamins and minerals necessary for a human body, is advantageous to improve the nutritional status of the diabetics, and can play a role in reducing the blood sugar and controlling the blood sugar level of the diabetics, improving organism immunity and preventing diabetes complicating diseases through the combined action of various factors such as bioactive components, the oligosaccharides, and the like in the food-originated short peptides and the extracts of the medical-edible Chinese herbal medicines, thus the food is suitable for the diabetics to eat.

The invention discloses special dietary seafood special for hyperuricemia patients. The seafood is characterized by being prepared by taking food-derived marine bioactive polysaccharides as main raw materials, adding algae powder and mixing the food-derived marine bioactive polysaccharides and the algae powder with the auxiliary materials including nutritional amino acids, oligosaccharides, vitamins and minerals. The seafood can be powdery or granular and is eaten after being dissolved in warm water. The seafood is easy to dissolve, has maximum biological absorbance and maximum bioavailability in human bodies, provides marine active factors and nutritional components for human bodies, supplements various vitamins and minerals essential to human bodies, is beneficial to improving the nutritional status of the hyperuricemia patients and can assist in reducing the uric acid level and controlling the hyperuricemia level, improving the immune of the human bodies and preventing gout throughsynergy of such factors as bioactive components in the food-derived marine bioactive polysaccharides, the algae powder, the nutritional amino acids and the like, thus being suitable for the hyperuricemia patients.

The invention provides a small peptide additive for porcine feed and a preparation method thereof; the small peptide additive for porcine feed is characterized in that the additive is prepared by mixing base materials, saccharomyces cerevisiae liquid, lactobacillus acidophilus liquid, bacillus subtilis liquid and water according to a weight ratio of 100:3-4:3-4:5-7:35-4, and performing solid fermentation; the base materials comprise 50-70 wt% of soybean meal, 4-5 wt% of rapeseed meal, 10-15 wt% of fish meal, 5-8 wt% of vinasse, 2-5 wt% of corn starch, 1-3 wt% of wheat bran, 1-3 wt% of molasses, 1-3 wt% of yellow mealworm, and 0.5-1 wt% of sodium carbonate. The small peptide additive for porcine feed of the invention can increase the synthesis speed of protein for pig body, promote food ingestion of pigs, increase appetite, improve immunity, promote the absorption of mineral elements by pig body, regulate various physiological actions of the body, reduce stress, and improve the nutritional status of pig body.

The invention provides a nutritional composition suitable for patients suffering from bone and joint diseases. The nutritional composition is prepared from 20%-40% of marine fish oligopeptides, 10%-30% of ossein protein peptides, 1%-5% of organic calcium, 1%-5% of casein phosphopeptides, 0.1%-1% of a saussurea involucrate culture, 1%-5% of shark cartilage powder, 5%-20% of inulin, 5%-30% of oligopeptides, 0.1%-1% of vitamins, 1%-3% of mineral substances and the like. The marine food which is used for special dietary uses, is suitable for being eaten by the patients suffering from the bone and joint diseases and contains the marine fish oligopeptides and the ossein protein peptides is provided according to physiological characteristics, nutritional requirements and conventional diet defects of the patients suffering from the bone and joint diseases, and the food has the effects of improving the nutritional condition of the organism, promoting rehabilitation of bones and joints, assisting in controlling blood glucose and conditioning the intestinal functions of the organism and the like.

The invention relates to a wheat special fertilizer. The wheat special fertilizer is a compound fertilizer or complex fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, wherein the weight ratio of N to P2O5 to K2O is (22-26): (18-20): (4-6). The wheat special fertilizer provided by the invention is reasonable in formula and has complete nutrients, a soil nutrient condition in North Henan is comprehensively considered, proportions of nutrient elements and raw materials of the fertilizer are selected, a ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus to potassium in the fertilizer is reasonable, nutrient releasing rate accords with wheat nutrient demanding rule in a wheat growing region in the North Henan, pertinency is high, operation is convenient, utilization rate of the fertilizer can be improved, application amount of the fertilizer can be reduced (application cost per Mu can be greatly reduced), yield can be increased, and crop quality can be improved; the wheat special fertilizer provided by the invention is applicable to a wheat producing area in North Henan, can be taken as a base fertilizer and can be applied in one step, once fertilizing on one batch of crops can be realized, and labour and time can be saved.

The invention relates to a method for artificially breeding mass Carpoglyphus lactis. In the method, the Carpoglyphus lactis is bred by 1 to 50 percent of sugar, 1 to 50 percent of yeast, 0 to 50 percent of breeding medium and 0 to 35 percent of water in an environment with the temperature of between 15 and 35 DEG C and the relative humidity of 65 to 95 percent. The method comprises the following steps of: after combining breeding materials, throwing the combined breeding materials into a breeding container; inoculating the Carpoglyphus lactis, wherein the Carpoglyphus lactis is inoculated in an amount of more than or equal to one Carpoglyphus lactis per milliliter; and breeding the Carpoglyphus lactis for 10 to 40 days to realize mass breeding. The Carpoglyphus lactis is bred by the sugar, the yeast, the breeding medium and the water, so the Carpoglyphus lactis can be efficiently bred, the method is easy to operate and has low cost, the bred Carpoglyphus lactis has the characteristics of good nutritional status, low death rate, high egg laying amount, high population density and the like, and the method is more suitable for low-cost commercial production of predatory mites.

The invention relates to feed for lactating sows. The feed comprises a feed main material and a traditional Chinese medicine additive, wherein the feed main material comprises the following raw material components: dried corn, distiller grains, soybean meal, barley with peel, puffed rapeseeds, wheat bran, honey, soybean oil, liquid enzymic preparation and premix. The feed for lactating sows disclosed by the invention is reasonable in formula of main material and meets physiological characteristics of lactating sows in growth; by adding traditional Chinese medicine ingredients, the feed can improve feed intake of sow, improve nutritional status of the sow, enhance body immunity, regulate gastrointestinal function, promote involution of uterus and bring about benefit for recovery of postpartum constitution of the sow; meanwhile, the feed, which contains vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin E, etc., is favorable for synthesis of milk.

The invention discloses black flour. The black flour comprises the following components: black wheat meal, black fragrant rice powder, purple sweet potato whole wheat flour, black millet powder, black bean flour, black sesame powder, black glutinous rice flour, black corn powder and black peanut powder. The invention has the advantages that the flour is rich in nutrition, is rich in Se, melanin and anthocyanin as well as various vitamins, amino acid and mineral elements and also contains certain amount of dietary fiber; especially abundant lysine in the black rice powder can make up the defect that the lysine in common flour is insufficient. Se, melanin and anthocyanin have good antioxidation and free radical eliminating effects, and free radical eliminating capacity by Se is 50-500 times that of vitamin E. Modern medicine thinks that 'black food' is full of nutriments and also has unique effects of tonifying kidney, preventing ageing, benefiting life, preventing and curing illness, hair nourishing and beautifying and the like. Thus, steamed bread and bun produced by adopting the black flour disclosed by the invention can improve nutritional status of the public to a certain extent.

The invention provides a formulation for a special prandial food, which contains short peptides and is provided for nephritic sufferers to eat. The food uses food-originated short peptides as raw materials which are added with extracts of medical-edible Chinese herbal medicines such as medlar, yams, black bean husks, rhizoma polygonati, mulberries, and the like, and are supplemented with oligosaccharides, vitamins and minerals to form a compound formulation. With the food formulation, powdered or granular foods can be prepared and are dissolved with warm water to eat. The food prepared according to the formulation is easy to dissolve, can be absorbed and utilized quickly, provides a high quality nitrogen source, various vitamins and minerals for organisms, improves the nutritional status of the nephritic sufferers, and can improve the organism immunity in an assisted mode and play a role in deferring kidney damages and protecting the kidney through the combined action of various factors such as bioactive components, the oligosaccharides, and the like in the food-originated short peptides and the extracts of the and the medical-edible Chinese herbal medicines, thus the food is suitable for the nephritic sufferers to eat.

The invention is a portable nutrition inquiry, calculation and evaluation device, including a microprocessor and the operation panel linked to microprocessor, small LCD screen, the audio output device for voice information output, and the communication device for exchange of information with personal computers and the specific websites of the Internet further. Microprocessor has a variety of modules for nutrition inquiries, the individual body measuring and calculating, weight regulation, nutrition calculation and evaluation. The invention also provides the nutrition inquiry, calculation and evaluation methods of the device. The useful technical effect of the invention is: easy to carry, readily available, no external power and other equipments need, timely internal food composition database expansion and nutrition module function updating, but also integration with electronic dictionaries, mobile phones and other devices. Users can understand their nutritional status of the body, and promptly adjust diet and exercise mode, more effectively protect their health.

The invention relates to a double-layer sustained release tablet for supplementing iron, the double-layer sustained release tablet consists of a sustained release layer and a quick release layer laminating with each other at the weight ratio of 1:0.25-1:4; the sustained release layer consists of an iron-containing compound, a sustained release framework, an adhesive, a lubricant and a filler; the quick release layer consists of a traditional Chinese medicine for enriching the blood and / or invigorating vital energy, a filler, a disintegrating agent, an adhesive and a lubricant; the quick release layer can also be added with vitamins. In the double-layer sustained release tablet, by arranging the iron-containing compound in the sustained release layer and the traditional Chinese medicine in the quick release layer, the iron element is released slowly and uniformly, which increases the absorption rate, avoids gastrointestinal reaction caused by high-content iron; meanwhile the double-layer sustained release tablet supplements iron element and the traditional Chinese medicine which has the functions of enriching the blood and invigorating vital energy, thus fully improving the nutritional status caused by iron deficiency anemia and improving iron supplementing effect.

The invention discloses a novel Chinese medicinal composition for treating cirrhosis and a preparation method thereof. The Chinese medicinal composition mainly comprises the following raw materials: dragon's blood, pangolin scales, rhizome of chuanxiong, red peony root, white peony root, poria, bighead atractylodes rhizome, peach kernel, safflower, glossy ganoderma, dragon's blood, rhizoma corydalis, Chinese angelica, rhizoma sparganii, curcuma zedoary, dried orange peel, immature bitter orange, rhubarb, ginseng, raw astragalus, prepared rehmannia, kudzu vine root, tortoise-plastron glue, cornu cervi degelatinatum, turtle carapace glue, raw rehmannia, figwort, dogwood, three-nerved spicebush root, bitter orange, nutgrass galingale rhizome, dried orange peel, costustoot, agilawood, bark of magnolia, fructus evodiae, longstamen onion bulb and aspongopus. The Chinese medicinal composition can be prepared into any common oral preparation according to the conventional Chinese medicinal preparation. The composition can treat patients with the main symptoms of weakness, anorexia and indigestion, and the symptoms of naupathia, oil disgust, abdominal flatulence, epigastric discomfort, dull pain and diarrhea, poor general condition and nutrition condition, weight loss and weakness, and lassitude and the patients who are bedridden due to weakness and have the accompanying symptoms of dry and rough skin, pale and dark face, anemia, glossitis, angular stomatitis, night blindness, polyneuritis, edema, water and electrolyte disorders, portal hypertension and the like. The Chinese medicinal composition has the advantages of exact clinical curative effect, remarkable curative effect and quick response, and also has the advantages of low cost, no toxic or side effect basically and the like because the Chinese medicinal composition is combined by adopting medicinal and edible medicaments formulated by National Formulary basically.

The invention belongs to the technical field of biology, and more specifically relates to hpyerglycemic composition and hpyerglycemic composite probiotics food for special dietary uses. The hpyerglycemic composition is prepared by medicinal and edible traditional Chinese medicines having probiotic and hpyerglycemic efficacy through cooperation. The effective functional components in the medicinal and edible traditional Chinese medicines can regulate and control blood sugar as well as improves intestinal flora. The composition can better regulate and control blood sugar, can regulate balance of intestinal flora, and can increase the immunity. The hpyerglycemic composite probiotics food is prepared by the hpyerglycemic composition, the medicinal and edible traditional Chinese medicines and the probiotics enable synergistic effect and mutual promotion, so that body physique can be integrally regulated, and a normal health state is maintained. Based on the improvement of body nutrition status, the effects for regulating and controlling blood sugar, eliminating hunger, and regulating stomach can be achieved, under condition that the medicine usage amount is reduced for patients, blood sugar can be effectively controlled, and diabetes and complication can be delayed and prevented.

The invention provides a high-energy enteral nutrition multi polymerizer. The total energy of every 100g of the multi polymerizer is 450-500kJ. The energy ratio is as follows: 16-20% of protein, 35-50% of fat and 40-50% of carbohydrate. The multi polymerizer has the advantages of high fat, high energy, low carbohydrate and rich nutrition, meets the nutritional treatment guideline of modern medicine relevant to malignant tumor, has the obvious anti-tumor effect, and can improve the nutrition condition of tumor patients.

This invention provides processes and apparatus for enhancing the nutritional value of food products. Nutrition-enhancing agents are applied or dispensed onto or into food products during their manufacture by food-grade controlled-droplet dispensing heads (or head). In preferred embodiments, the dispensing heads are controlled by a controller, such as a programmed PC-type computer, in dependence on sensor data, such as electromechanical, optical, or image sensor data. The controller and sensors operate so that different food items can have selected nutrition-enhancing agents properly applied or dispensed without waste or overspray. The invention also provides food products which have been enhanced according to the provided processes and apparatus with nutrition-enhancing agents.

The invention discloses a method for evaluating animal individual nutriture by metabonomics. The method is characterized in that through building a regression model of crude protein content and digestible energy content of daily ration of animals and types and content of metabolites in an animal body fluid, protein and energy levels of the daily ration of the animals can be forecasted. The method can determine if protein and energy nutrient levels of daily ration of a growing pig are different from the normal nutrient levels, can determine a nutrition type, and has an accuracy rate of 100%. The method can find 11 biomarkers related to a protein level of daily ration, 9 biomarkers related to an energy level of the daily ration, and 5 biomarkers related to the protein level and the energy level. The method has important theoretical and practical significance for evaluating pig nutriture, optimizing a formula and improving pig production efficiency.

The invention relates to a healthy plum slice and a preparation process of the plum slice. The healthy plum slice comprises the components of: 75.7-81.6% of plum slice, 15-20% of edible salt, 3-4% of xylitol and 0.3-0.4% of aspartame. The healthy plum slice has the advantages that: as additives are used as little as possible, the nutritional values of the plum good for a human body are retained and the increased beneficial condiment improves the health-care function for the human body; as the preparation process is simplified, the management of a production flow of an enterprise is facilitated; as the production time and cycle are greatly shortened, the healthy plum slice meets the market demand; and as the production flow is sterile, the problem of serious pollution to preserved foods issolved.

The invention discloses a feed for native chicken. The feed for the native chicken comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: 55-65 parts of corn, 15-20 parts of soybean meal, 2-4 parts of fish meal, 7-10 parts of wheat bran, 1-1.5 parts of mountain flour, 1-2 parts of grass jelly, 1-2 parts of cornel, 1-2 parts of Selaginella uncinata, 1-2 parts of Houttuynia cordata, 0.8-1 part of folium perillae acutae, 0.8-1 part of beefwood-like clubmoss herb, 0.9-1.2 parts of serrate rabdosia herb, 0.2-0.4 part of salt, 0.3-0.5 part of edible oil, 0.8-1 part of premix, 0.4-0.6 part of Pinellia ternata, 0.6-0.9 part of dried tangerine peel, 0.6-0.8 part of radix scutellariae, 0.6-0.8 part of rhizoma atractylodis, 0.5-0.7 part of rheum officinale, 0.06-0.08 part of methionine, 0.08-0.1 part of lysine, 0.08-0.12 part of dibasic sodium phosphate, 0.06-0.08 part of ammonium chloride and 0.001-0.003 part of multivitamin. According to the invention, a healthcare livestock feed is prepared by machining raw materials of Chinese herbal medicines, natural sterilizing plants and antibacterial plants as well as auxiliary materials by using a reasonable process; therefore, under a situation that desired nutritions can be obtained in the livestock growing and developing process, the disease prevention and disease-resistant immunities are also enhanced.