RECOMMENDING FOOD ITEMS BASED ON PERSONAL INFORMATION AND NUTRITIONAL CONTENT

摘要

The present invention extends to systems, methods, and computer program products for recommending food items based on personal information and nutritional content. A registered customer has members in a customer group. The registered customer provides nutritional information for members of the group (e.g., family members) to a merchant computer system. The merchant computer system uses the nutritional information to recommend food items to the customer. As a customer shops, the merchant computer system compares the nutritional content of the shopping cart items with nutritional needs of the customer. Recommendations are furnished to the customer based on the shopping cart content and the nutritional needs of the customer.

主权项

1. At a computer system, a method for recommending a food item to a registered customer comprising a group of one or more members, the method comprising:
accessing an indication of one or more food items in a shopping cart for the registered customer; accessing a customer nutritional profile for the registered customer, the customer nutritional profile derived from characteristics associated with the registered customer, the characteristics comprising:
customer characteristics applicable to the group of one or more members; andfor each of the one or more members within the group of one or more members, member characteristics applicable to the member; calculating a cumulative nutritional content of the one or more food items from item nutritional profiles for each of the one or more food items; comparing the customer nutritional profile to the cumulative nutritional content to determine that purchase of the one or more food items fails to satisfy at least one nutritional requirement of the registered customer; identifying an additional food item that satisfies the at least one nutritional requirement based at least in part on the customer nutritional profile and a nutritional content of the additional food item; and recommending the additional food item to the registered customer for purchase.