Patent ID: 11862321
Assignee: TANITA CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. An ingredient determining apparatus configured to determine nutritional ingredients in food provided for a user, comprising:
a receiver configured to receive body shape data indicating a target body shape targeted by the user; and
a processor configured to be attachable to and in electrical contact with a generating apparatus, the processor comprising:
a body composition information obtaining circuit configured to obtain a muscle index indicating a degree of muscle mass of the user and a fat index indicating a degree of fat mass of the user from data generated by a body composition measuring apparatus that is configured to measure impedance of at least one body part of the user from a voltage value detected by a voltage detecting circuit, and then calculate the muscle index and the fat index based on the measured impedance values,
a nutritional ingredient determining circuit that includes a nutritional ingredient calculating circuit that is configured to determine the nutritional ingredients based on the muscle index and the fat index, and
a nutritional ingredient instruction circuit configured to send an instruction to the generating apparatus to extract a quantity of the supplement material having the determined nutritional ingredients from a supplement storage container, and dispense the determined nutritional ingredients to the user to allow the user to achieve a desired body type,

wherein the processor is configured to
determine an effect that previously ingested nutritional ingredients that were received from the generating apparatus based on a previously measured muscle index and previously measured fat index that had been measured by the body composition measuring apparatus and stored in the processor had on the change in the body shape of the user, and
determine a supplemental nutritional ingredient which supplements the nutritional ingredients based on the effect of the previously ingested nutritional ingredients and on a divergence from the body shape of the user to the target body shape such that the increasing ingredient which increases muscle is included when a muscle index component of the divergence is above a second threshold.