Patent ID: 8857317
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: A23L,A47J

Abstract:
1. A nutritional delivery system comprising: a dispenser for providing water to a single-use capsule containing a portion-controlled serving of a nutritional formula; a plurality of different types of capsules that relate to a nutritional feeding plan, each type of capsule comprising capsules containing an infant formula; the different types of capsules having at least one differentiating characteristic; a control operation related to each type of capsule comprising information relating to at least one differentiating operational parameter providing an automatic control for producing and delivering a differentiated nutritional liquid in the dispenser according to the nutritional feeding plan, wherein the at least one differentiating characteristic of each type of capsules and the at least one differentiating operational parameter vary according to the age of the person to be fed, the different types of capsules are differentiated from each other by the type or content of a nutrient selected from the group consisting of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, probiotics, micronutrients, and combinations thereof in the infant formula in the capsule; and at least two different types of capsules are differentiated from each other by an amount of protein contained therein, wherein the protein content decreases in the different types of capsules with an increase of age of an infant to be fed, and wherein the protein type includes whey and casein, the ratio of which decreases in the different types of capsules with an increase of age of an infant to be fed.