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Nutrition, Food Access, and Meal Systems Intelligence
Support safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food planning, shopping, storage, meal routines, and dietary navigation without replacing clinical nutrition care.
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Definition
Support safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food planning, shopping, storage, meal routines, and dietary navigation without replacing clinical nutrition care.
Coverage role
Food is a daily need; this pack replaces a narrow cooking example with nutrition, food access, safety, budgeting, and household meal operations.
Scope
Included
- dietary constraints
- meal-system planning
- shopping and inventory
- food safety
- allergens
- substitutions
- budget and food access
- waste reduction
Excluded and non-goals
- diagnosing deficiencies
- prescribing medical diets
- guaranteeing allergen safety without verified labels
- encouraging restrictive or disordered eating
Boundary rules
- Route to life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.capture_food_context |
Capture Food Context | Record household size, culture, budget, access, schedule, allergies, preferences, equipment, and clinician-provided requirements. |
capability.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.plan_meal_system |
Plan Meal System | Build a repeatable meal pattern and preparation schedule balancing nutrition, time, cost, and preference. |
capability.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.build_shopping_inventory |
Build Shopping Inventory | Translate the plan into quantities, pantry status, storage, reorder points, and a shopping list. |
capability.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.check_food_safety |
Check Food Safety | Apply current local rules for hygiene, storage, temperature, cross-contact, labels, and recalls. |
capability.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.adapt_and_substitute |
Adapt And Substitute | Propose substitutions by function, nutrition, availability, culture, allergy constraints, and label uncertainty. |
capability.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.optimize_cost_access |
Optimize Cost Access | Compare affordable options, benefits, community resources, and waste reduction. |
capability.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.review_nutrition_pattern |
Review Nutrition Pattern | Compare the overall pattern with current local guidance and identify clinician questions. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.food_context_profile |
context_profile | Food Context Profile for Nutrition, Food Access, and Meal Systems Intelligence: A bounded context profile that separates observations, preferences, constraints, uncertainty, time scope, and next questions. It supports the pack purpose of support safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food planning, shopping, storage, meal routines, and dietary navigation without replacing clinical nutrition care. |
artifact.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.meal_system_plan |
plan | Meal System Plan for Nutrition, Food Access, and Meal Systems Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food planning, shopping, storage, meal routines, and dietary navigation without replacing clinical nutrition care. |
artifact.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.shopping_plan |
plan | Shopping Plan for Nutrition, Food Access, and Meal Systems Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food planning, shopping, storage, meal routines, and dietary navigation without replacing clinical nutrition care. |
artifact.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.pantry_inventory |
ledger | Pantry Inventory for Nutrition, Food Access, and Meal Systems Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of support safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food planning, shopping, storage, meal routines, and dietary navigation without replacing clinical nutrition care. |
artifact.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.food_safety_checklist |
checklist | Food Safety Checklist for Nutrition, Food Access, and Meal Systems Intelligence: An applicability-aware control list that records item status, evidence, gaps, ownership, remediation, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food planning, shopping, storage, meal routines, and dietary navigation without replacing clinical nutrition care. |
artifact.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.allergen_map |
model | Allergen Map for Nutrition, Food Access, and Meal Systems Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of support safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food planning, shopping, storage, meal routines, and dietary navigation without replacing clinical nutrition care. |
artifact.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.substitution_set |
portfolio | Substitution Set for Nutrition, Food Access, and Meal Systems Intelligence: A deliberately varied set of candidates with lineage, constraints, screening state, and selection rationale. It supports the pack purpose of support safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food planning, shopping, storage, meal routines, and dietary navigation without replacing clinical nutrition care. |
artifact.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.food_budget |
numeric_model | Food Budget for Nutrition, Food Access, and Meal Systems Intelligence: A reproducible quantitative model with units, periods, formulas, assumptions, scenarios, reconciliation, and uncertainty. It supports the pack purpose of support safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food planning, shopping, storage, meal routines, and dietary navigation without replacing clinical nutrition care. |
artifact.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.nutrition_pattern_review |
analysis | Nutrition Pattern Review for Nutrition, Food Access, and Meal Systems Intelligence: An evidence-linked assessment that states criteria, findings, uncertainty, limitations, status, and action. It supports the pack purpose of support safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food planning, shopping, storage, meal routines, and dietary navigation without replacing clinical nutrition care. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.dietary_pattern_planning |
dietary-pattern planning | Use to organize observations, function, routines, burden, goals, and questions for self-management or professional review without diagnosing or prescribing. | Avoid delaying urgent care, changing medication or treatment, using population guidance as personalized clearance, or ignoring consent, capacity, contraindications, and caregiver burden. |
method.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.inventory_and_reorder_management |
inventory and reorder management | Use when recurring work, assets, supplies, maintenance, or records require controlled state, thresholds, ownership, and exceptions. | Avoid collecting unnecessary sensitive inventory, setting thresholds without consumption or failure evidence, or assigning work without capacity and fairness review. |
method.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.batch_scheduling |
batch scheduling | Use when recurring food or household outcomes depend on roles, ingredient or material functions, timing, inventory, equipment, safety, cost, and waste. | Avoid unsafe substitutions, hidden allergens, time-temperature violations, or efficiency plans that ignore access, culture, workload, and dietary or equipment constraints. |
method.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.function_based_substitution |
function-based substitution | Use when recurring food or household outcomes depend on roles, ingredient or material functions, timing, inventory, equipment, safety, cost, and waste. | Avoid unsafe substitutions, hidden allergens, time-temperature violations, or efficiency plans that ignore access, culture, workload, and dietary or equipment constraints. |
method.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.food_safety_hazard_checks |
food-safety hazard checks | Use when potential harm must be detected, prioritized, contained, routed, and recorded without exceeding available authority. | Avoid delaying emergency or safeguarding routes, asking for unnecessary sensitive detail, or giving instructions that increase exposure, destroy evidence, or conflict with official guidance. |
method.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.budget_and_waste_co_optimization |
budget and waste co-optimization | Use when alternatives or plans depend on transparent monetary flows, units, timing, fees, uncertainty, and scenario assumptions. | Avoid undisclosed rates, fees, taxes, currency conversion, inflation, compounding, or jurisdictional assumptions; do not present scenario outputs as guaranteed outcomes. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.01_allergy_and_cross_contact_uncertainty_is_explicit |
Allergy and cross-contact uncertainty is explicit. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.02_medical_diets_pregnancy_infancy_and_eating_disorder_concer |
Medical diets pregnancy infancy and eating-disorder concerns trigger professional review. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.03_the_whole_pattern_and_feasibility_matter_more_than_moraliz |
The whole pattern and feasibility matter more than moralizing individual foods. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.04_local_food_safety_guidance_is_current |
Local food-safety guidance is current. | fail_or_repair |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: None
Foundation concepts: general.planning-execution, general.probabilistic-statistical, general.practical-procedural, general.decision, general.systems
Life intelligences: life.personal-finance-resilience, life.household-domestic-operations, life.health-navigation-self-care, life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
who.food |
concept_definition, health_or_safety_boundary, population_guidance | True |
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
ec.greencomp |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: high
- Severe allergy or suspected poisoning.
- Clinical diets infant feeding pregnancy or major weight change.
- Disordered-eating indicators.
- Current recalls or local food warnings.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 7
- Evidence class:
contract: 7 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/nutrition-food-access-meal-systems.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7