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A Geometry of Nutrition¹

Electrical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, and Mathematics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06268

The nutritional value of a given sample of food may be specified by a nutrition holor in a fictitious 3-space. This holor possesses magnitude and character. In most cases, we are interested primarily in character, and this can be represented by a point in a 2-space (the nutrition triangle). The triangle allows visualization of relations among foods and also the addition of nutritional values for a combination of foods.

KEY WORDS: • geometry • mathematical model • nutrient patterns

¹ The term holor used in this paper was first used in 1963. Moon, P. & Spencer, D. E. (1963) A new mathematical representation of alternating currents. Tensor 14, 110–121.

Manuscript received 11 May 1973.