IOT in the development of information support of food products for healthy nutrition

Abstract

The marking of food products comprises mandatory information regulated by legislative enactments of the state regarding the contents of nutrients. A restricted information capacity of the package features no opportunity to accommodate more exhaustive information on the advantages of food products for the health of potential consumers. The advantages of food products for the health, such as antioxidant capacity thereof is variable depending on quality and quantity composition of ingredients and technologies as exemplified by blended juices and enriched bakery products. It is impossible to accommodate the results of attaining maximum antioxidant capacity by the new food products and the visual presentation thereof in the margins of standard information panel of the package. A graphical representation of the received information is more relevant for the consumer, but it occupies the volume of information exceeding the margins not only of standard information panel of the package, but QR code too. It has been proposed with the use of QR coding to provide the consumer with a possibility of switching over to the information resource of the manufacturer of commodity group, which may comprise both inherent information and the information of external development agencies, including scientific publications on antioxidant properties of food products. The use of IOT will help provide consumers with more exhaustive information on healthy nutrition and stimulate acquisition of food products useful for health.