Development of a personalized diet using the structural optimization method

The design of a human personalized diet considering a variety of different factors is associated with system analysis and formalization of data and knowledge, as well as with the development of digital technologies. The paper presents the methodology of optimization and formation of personalized diets based on structural-parametric modeling. The proposed approach allows solving the following tasks: 1)  to analyze the daily diet or individual meals (breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, additional meals or snacks) with a known quantitative set of finished products in terms of energy value and chemical composition in order to reveal dietary disorders; 2)  to calculate quantity of products optimal for a meal from the fixed list, thereby composing an individual reference diet with regard to the mental and physical activities, nutritive status of a consumer and economic aspects; 3) to optimize a diet depending on the task at hand by selecting a group of finished products from a complete or selected list of archival data, equally taking into account all the necessary parameters; 4) to adjust the diet taking into account dietary deviations in certain parameters of the chemical composition and energy value by additional introduction of special purpose products with the increased biological value, multivitamin and multivitamin-mineral supplements, as well as natural bioactive substances.

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