US Patent 11875889 Methods and systems of alimentary provisioning

A system for alimentary provisioning includes a computing device configured to provide an alimentary instruction set including a plurality of target nutrient quantities, receive, from each alimentary provider device of a plurality of alimentary provider devices, a plurality of provider ingredients, generate a plurality of ingredient combinations, wherein each ingredient combination is a combination of two or more provider ingredients of the plurality of provider ingredients, and select a plurality of beneficial ingredient combinations from the plurality of ingredient combinations, wherein selecting each ingredient combination of the plurality of ingredient combinations includes determining a nutrient listing corresponding to each ingredient combination of the plurality of ingredient combinations, creating a distance metric from the nutrient listing to the alimentary instruction set, and selecting at least an ingredient listing that minimizes the distance metric, and selecting the plurality of beneficial ingredient combinations to minimize the distance metric.