A device for determining nutritional data of food eaten by a person

摘要

A device for determing nutritional data of food eaten by a person, comprising:a keyboard (10) for manually controlling the operation of the device,a base memory (24) in which there are stored nutritional data of a series of food elements,an alphanumeric display (12) for displaying information relating to the type of element and to its nutritional features, anda microprocessor control unit (26) programmed for enabling the selection by means of the keyboard (10) of individual elements among the ones stored in the base memory and for displaying on said display (12) the nutritional data of the selected element.;After the selection of a food element among the ones stored in the base memory (24), the control unit (26) is prepared for receiving information relating to the quantity of such element which has been eaten or which is intended to be eaten and for calculating the total nutritional data due to said quantity of the selected element. The control unit (26) is also programmed for adding said total nutritional data to a resettable progressive memory (30) containing the sum of total nutritional data of food elements eaten in a period of time subsequent to the last reset.