Nutritional Assessment Tool

摘要

The nutritional assessment tool allows a user to select from a recipe database, or enter a recipe of his own; the tool then parses the ingredients, searches other databases for nutrition profile information of each ingredient, and applies the profile to the amount of that ingredient called for in the recipe. It repeats for each ingredient and then provides a nutritional profile of the food item on a per serving basis. This may be applied to entire meals, as well. The tool can provide suggested replacement ingredients to allow the user to tailor his nutritional intake, will allow the user to store meal information and then generate reports related to nutritional profile of a food item, a meal, or a time frame.

主权项

1. A nutritional calculator for providing a nutritional profile comprising:
a) a recipe said recipe comprising a plurality of ingredients and a measure for each of substantially all of said plurality of ingredients, b) at least one ingredient database; c) a plurality of nutritional profiles each said profile electronically linked to one or more ingredients in said at least one ingredient database and expressed in profile units; d) an ingredient parser for parsing said recipe to obtain each ingredient and each ingredient measure; e) a measurement converter for converting said ingredient measure to said profile units, and f) a nutrition profile generator for compiling the profile units of each said ingredient into a nutritional profile of said recipe.