Custom nutritional supplement composition production system and method

An automated method of preparing a custom nutritional supplement composition, said method including:

• determining one or more quantitative relationships between a plurality of active ingredients, a plurality of user-specifiable organoleptic qualities, and a plurality of additive ingredients that define ratios of ingredients included in an organoleptically optimal nutritional supplement relative to one another, wherein organoleptic qualities include a flavour, a stability, a consistency, a texture, and a colour of a custom nutritional supplement;
• preparing one or more master batches of one or more Base Mixes and one or more Add Mixes including one or more nutritional supplement ingredients and/or one or more additives based on the one or more quantitative relationships;
• codifying the one or more quantitative relationships in an executable algorithm as mathematical constants, wherein the algorithm calculates quantities of ingredients included in the custom nutritional supplement, and wherein the constants include one or more of the following:
• ‘BaseMix Factor’, ‘AddMix Factor’, ‘BaseMix Adding Factor’ and/or ‘AddMix Adding Factor’;
• providing within a user interface data of user selectable ingredients and qualities and having the user interface with the data via the user interface and select from the selectable ingredients and qualities to provide a desired supplement profile, wherein the desired supplement profile includes data of:
• one or more selected active ingredients and one or more user-specified organoleptic qualities;
• inputting the user selected data of the desired supplemental profile into the algorithm to automatically determine a custom nutritional supplement recipe;
• selecting one or more components to be included in a custom nutritional supplement based on the custom nutritional supplement recipe, wherein the one or more components include one or more of:
• one or more additive ingredients, the one or more selected active ingredients, one or more Base Mixes, and one or more Add Mixes;
• and
• manufacturing the custom nutritional supplement by combining the one or more selected components in quantities defined by the custom nutritional supplement recipe thereby obtaining a palatable, stabilised, custom nutritional supplement product having a desired flavour, colour and consistency, or any other sensory characteristics, while reducing a number of components required to be blended to achieve same.