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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2020
Suntory Holdings Limited, Osaka City, JP;
Atsushi Mukai, Tokyo, JP;
SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, Osaka City, JP;
Abstract
In order to solve a conventional problem that it is difficult to reproduce a taste, a flavor, and the like of food, a food manufacturing support apparatus includes: an ingredient information storage unit in which two or more pieces of ingredient information are stored, the ingredient information each having one or more pieces of feature value specifying information for specifying an amount of each of one or more feature values contained in an ingredient of food, and an ingredient identifier for specifying the ingredient; a feature value recipe identifier information accepting unit that accepts feature value recipe identifier information for specifying two or more pieces of feature value specifying information respectively associated with two or more feature values; a determining unit that determines two or more ingredients and amounts of the ingredients that satisfy two or more pieces of feature value specifying information of the two or more feature values specified with the feature value recipe identifier information accepted by the accepting unit, referring to the two or more pieces of ingredient information stored in the ingredient information storage unit; and an ingredient amount specifying information output unit that outputs ingredient amount specifying information regarding the amounts of the two or more ingredients determined by the determining unit, in association with ingredient identifiers for respectively specifying the ingredients. Accordingly, it is possible to support reproduction of a taste, a flavor, and the like of food.