| Romulus GRUIA1, Liviu GACEU2
Abstract. This paper proposes the integrated concept of Bioharmonized Eating and Bioharmonized Food as a novel framework for the multilevel assessment of food quality and value. The conceptual framework extends the conventional, predominantly energy-nutritional approach based on Energy–Substance (E–S) by explicitly introducing Information (I) and the Information–Energy–Substance (I&E&S) Matrix. Food is therefore assessed not only through its composition and nutritional value, but also through the dynamic relationship among food, the food act, the organism, diet, and the food system. The proposed Multilevel Bioharmonized Assessment (MBA) integrates the characteristics of food, the food act, meals, dietary patterns, and food systems and introduces a set of original indicators: the Food Bioinformation Index (FBiI), Bioinformational Density of Food (BiDF), Food Biohomeorhesis Index (FBhI), and the composite Bioharmonized Food Quality (BFQ) indicator. The I&E&S matrix hypothesis conceptualizes the food act as a process through which the informational, energetic, and substantial matrix of food is restructured and integrated into the organism’s I&E&S matrix, through processes conceptually associated with biohomeoresis and the tendency toward bioharmony. A prospective component of the study concerns the market valuation of bioharmonized foods, by relating their monetary market price to their bioharmonized performance. The paper proposes a gradual transition from market price as monetary value toward a broader bioharmonized economic value, through the progressive recognition and internalization of nutritional, bioinformational, biohomeoretic, ecological, and systemic qualities. Thus, the bioharmonized price is conceived not as an administratively imposed price, but as a progressive economic expression of additional quality that can be measured, certified, and communicated to consumers. The proposed approach establishes a conceptual bridge between food quality, food bioinformation, biohomeoresis, bioharmony, and food economics, enabling the simultaneous assessment of monetary value and bioharmonized value. Keywords: Bioharmonized Food; bioharmonized diet; food quality; food bioinformation; Food Bioinformational Density (FBD); Bioharmonized Food Quality (BFQ); bioharmonized price. DOI 10.56082/annalsarsciagri.2026.2.21 Read full article 1Prof.PhD. Eng. University of Transilvania from Brașov, Romania, Full Member of the Academy of the Romanian Scientists, Associate member of Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences “Gheorghe Ionescu-Sisesti”, Researcher CE-MONT & CSCBAS – National Institute of Economics Research, Romanian Academy, (e-mail: ecotec@unitbv.ro) 2Prof. PhD. Hab. Eng. University of Transilvania from Brașov, Romania, Coresp. Member of the Academy of the Romanian Scientists, Researcher CE-MONT & CSCBAS – National Institute of Economics Research, Romanan Academy, (e-mail: gaceul@unitbv.ro). |
PUBLISHED in Annals Academy of Romanian Scientists Series on Agriculture, Silviculture and Veterinary Medicine
ISSN PRINT 2069-1149 ISSN ONLINE 2344-2085 |
