Reward-based ecosystem for tracking nutritional consumption

A computer system for tracking a nutritional consumption, comprising:

• one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage media, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable tangible storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, wherein the computer system is capable of performing a method comprising:
• providing a digital avatar associated with a participant;
• transmitting a dietary goal to a device associated with the digital avatar, wherein the transmitted dietary goal includes a nutritional requirement for the participant;
• recognizing at least one food item consumed by the participant;
• determining a consumed nutrient information associated with the recognized at least one food item consumed by the participant;
• in response to determining that the nutritional requirement of the transmitted dietary goal is met by the determined consumed nutrient information, releasing a reward to the device associated with the digital avatar, wherein the released reward is associated with an accomplishment of the dietary goal by the participant;
• in response to the released reward, depicting, in the device associated with the digital avatar, a virtual evolution of the digital avatar;
• and
• determining an ability of the participant to understand long term objectives,
• wherein the virtual evolution is based on the ability of the participant to understand the long term objectives and the ability determines a timing of the released reward in engaging the participant.

A computer program product for tracking a nutritional consumption, comprising:

• one or more computer-readable tangible storage media and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable tangible storage media, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
• providing a digital avatar associated with a participant;
• transmitting a dietary goal to a device associated with the digital avatar, wherein the transmitted dietary goal includes a nutritional requirement for the participant;
• recognizing at least one food item consumed by the participant;
• determining a consumed nutrient information associated with the recognized at least one food item consumed by the participant;
• in response to determining that the nutritional requirement of the transmitted dietary goal is met by the determined consumed nutrient information, releasing a reward to the device associated with the digital avatar, wherein the released reward is associated with an accomplishment of the dietary goal by the participant;
• in response to the released reward, depicting, in the device associated with the digital avatar, a virtual evolution of the digital avatar;
• determine an ability of the participant to understand long term objectives,
• wherein the virtual evolution is based on the ability of the participant to understand the long term objectives and the ability determines a timing of evolutionary steps of the virtual evolution in engaging the participant;
• collect feedback from the participant;
• and
• generate a training data corpus from the collected feedback.