Ingredient based nutritional information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9734182-B2
Application number	US-201615087857-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 31, 2016
Priority date	Jul 29, 2015
Publication date	Aug 15, 2017
Grant date	Aug 15, 2017

Abstract

Nutritional information of a recipe is gathered to determine a nutritional value table of a food recipe. A computing device may extract and analyze unstructured text of a food recipe to obtain a plurality of ingredients and a quantity of the plurality of ingredients. The computing device may access dietary preferences of a user. The nutritional information of the food recipe may be calculated using the nutritional value of each of the ingredients and complied into a nutritional value table. The recipe may be determined if the recipe corresponds with the dietary preferences of the user. If a recipe does not correspond with the dietary preferences, then an ingredient causes the recipe to not correspond with the dietary preferences is removed from the recipe creating an altered recipe. The nutritional value table of the altered recipe is displayed to the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, executed by a computing device, for determining nutritional information of a food recipe using text analytics, comprising:
analyzing, by a text analyzer configured to implement unstructured information management architecture and natural language processing, an unstructured text of a food recipe as instructions for preparing a meal to generate an ingredient list for the food recipe from the unstructured text to obtain:
a plurality of ingredients for the food recipe,
a quantity of each of the plurality of ingredients, and
a number of servings;

accessing a set of dietary preferences of a user from a user profile associated with the user;
calculating nutritional information of each of the plurality of ingredients using the quantity of the plurality of ingredients within the food recipe;
compiling, by a compiler, the nutritional information of the plurality of ingredients into a nutritional value table, by:
accessing a database, wherein the database includes:
a nutritional information dictionary, including a list of ingredients and a nutritional indicators per quantity of the ingredients, and
a nutritional value, calculated from the ingredient and a nutrient value per quantity, of the nutritional indicators of the list of ingredients,

gathering the nutritional value of each of the plurality of ingredients from the nutritional information dictionary, and
calculating the nutritional information of each of the plurality of ingredients using the quantity of each of the plurality of ingredients;

determining whether the food recipe corresponds with the set of dietary preferences of the user, by comparing the calculated nutritional information for the plurality of ingredients with the dietary preferences of the user contained in the user profile, wherein a non-corresponding food recipe includes a first ingredient from the plurality of ingredients that does not correspond with the set of dietary preferences of the user, the first ingredient including a nutritional indicator that does not correspond with the set of dietary preferences of the user;
alerting, via an alert system the user that the first ingredient does not correspond with the set of dietary preferences of the user;
displaying, on a display device, to the user the first ingredient that does not correspond with the set of dietary preferences of the user;
altering, by the alert system, in response to determining a non-corresponding food recipe, the food recipe by removing the first ingredient;
substituting, in response to removing the first ingredient from the non-corresponding food recipe, a second ingredient for the first ingredient, by the alert system in conjunction with the database, wherein the substituting the second ingredient includes:
accessing a substitution dictionary of substitutable ingredients for the first ingredient,
determining whether the second ingredient is present in the substitution dictionary as a substitute for the first ingredient,
updating the nutritional information dictionary of the database,
adding the second ingredient a respective quantity to the plurality of ingredients of the food recipe,
accessing the nutritional information of the second ingredient, and

updating the nutritional value table of the food recipe with the substitution of the second ingredient; and
displaying the altered food recipe as a second nutritional value table.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Bhatt Dhruv A
• Mcneil Kristin E
• Mun Soomi
• Patel Nitaben A

Classifications

• G16H20/60

  relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets · CPC title

• G06F40/157

  using dictionaries or tables · CPC title

• G06Q10/10

  Office automation; Time management · CPC title

• G06F16/2282 Primary

  Tablespace storage structures; Management thereof · CPC title

• G06F16/2358

  Change logging, detection, and notification (replication G06F16/27) · CPC title