LUNCHIN SYSTEM FOR RECORDING STUDENTS' MEAL SELECTIONS

摘要

The present Lunchin system automatically monitors a student's food selections, identifies the quality of the choices that are made, and provides points for positive meal choices to allow access to specific rewards which further encourage a healthy lifestyle, with reports being available to the school and/or the student's parents. This system typically is implemented in a cafeteria environment, where a student is presented with a variety of food choices pursuant to a meal offering in a school environment. The student is identified prior to their making selections, the selections are tracked, and the relevant data about the content of the selections is compiled to create a record of the student's food choices as well as an analysis of the quality of these food choices. The system can include an alert functionality to advise the student when their selection violates a predetermined student-specific health factor that is stored in the system.

主权项

1. A tracking system for monitoring the food selections made by individuals who make use of a food service facility, comprising:
a login apparatus for collecting data provided by an individual to authenticate the identity of the individual; a food identifier for generating data indicative of the food selections made by the individual; a dietary analysis processor, responsive to the generated food selection data, for computing food quality data pursuant to a food quality rule set which is a measure of nutritional characteristics of the food selections; and a database for storing the individual identification data and food quality data.