SYSTEM FOR CONTROL OVER FOOD AND DIET AND RELATED METHOD TO REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

摘要

A system to control a user's food and diet to reduce their environmental impact including a device selected from the group consisting of a desktop computer, laptop, personal digital assistant (PDA), portable computer, tablet PC and wearable computer, storing a software program having instructions causing the device to receive a barcode, image, audio or text data of a food to be consumed by the user; for identifying the food and its ingredients; for analyzing the cost, nutritional content and environmental footprint of said food by a query to a database that stores information about the food; to determine the equivalency of the environmental footprint of the food; to compile each food item consumed by the user to create the user's current diet; to compare the user's current diet to an environmentally sustainable guideline diet; to generate a food recommendation to the user to reduce their environmental impact; and to connect a user to local sustainable food producers.