Principles of formation of modular technologies of enteral nutrition products

Abstract

Introduction. Enteral nutrition products (EP) are represented on the market by a wide range of imported products, the technology and formulations of which are unique and are objects of intellectual property of foreign scientific centers. The application of a unified methodological approach to the design of EP products will make it possible to transfer this process from an empirical to a scientifically based plane.Purpose of research is to create a rational set of technological solutions for the production of specialized EP products based on the principles of modularity, taking into account the cascade of technological qualitative and quantitative transformations.Materials and methods. Digital matrices of patient conditions, EP products and ingredients were used as materials. The main research method was advanced digital profiling, taking into account the transformation of nutrients in the production process.Results. According to the formed matrices of the chemical composition of imported EP products, the criteria relationships of their digital profiles and state profiles were established. Based on the principles of food combinatorics and digital profiling, an algorithm for an improved approach to the design and production of EP is proposed. A generalized modular technology for the production of EP products has been developed and its variability has been proved without changing the structure due to the combinatorial versatility of each of the set of models. The degree of its available combinatorial variability has been established, which is functionally dependent on the number of combinatorially manipulated ingredients, taking into account all possible k-component compositions. The required set of formulations of EP products is a set of solutions in terms of design with the possibility of determining the vector of tasks to be solved.Conclusions. The obtained research results can be applied in the food industry in terms of unified production of specialized products.