Conditioning system for nutritional substances

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a conditioning system for nutritional substances. The conditioning system obtains information regarding the nutritional substance to be conditioned, the desired conditioning, and the desired properties, including nutritional content, of the conditioned nutritional substance, and dynamically controls the conditioning in response to this information optimize the organoleptic properties of the conditioned nutritional substance, while minimizing any detrimental changes to the nutritional content.

1 . A method of dynamically conditioning a nutritional substance comprising the steps of:
 obtaining source information regarding the nutritional substance;   obtaining conditioning instructions for the nutritional substance;   modifying the conditioning instructions using the source information.   
     
     
         2 . A method of dynamically conditioning a nutritional substance of  claim 1  wherein the conditioning instructions are modified so as to preserve nutritional, organoleptic and/or aesthetic value of the nutritional substance. 
     
     
         3 . A method of generating nutritional information for a conditioned nutritional substance comprising the steps of:
 obtaining source information regarding the nutritional substance;   obtaining conditioning information for the nutritional substance;   determining at least one change in nutritional information using the source information and the conditioning information.   
     
     
         4 . A method of generating nutritional information of  claim 3  wherein calculating the change includes calculating any change in nutritional, organoleptic and/or aesthetic value of the nutritional sub stance. 
     
     
         5 . A method of estimating a change in a selected nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value of a nutritional substance following conditioning comprising the steps of:
 retrieving at least two of a source information, dynamically generated information, and   currently observed information regarding a selected nutritional value of a nutritional substance to be conditioned; and   obtaining a conditioning specification for conditioning the nutritional substance; and   determining at least one value associated with the change in the selected nutritional value using at least two of said source information, said dynamically generated information, said currently observed information, and said conditioning specification.   
     
     
         6 . A method of estimating a change in a selected nutritional, organoleptic, or aesthetic value of a nutritional substance following conditioning according to  claim 5  further comprising the steps of:
 providing information regarding the determined value for local or remote review.