Comparison Chart of Nutrition Analysis Programs
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1. E surfers who ve completed your web based questionnaire Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time Miscellaneous Features NutriBase Professional Ability to synchronize your data recipes food logs meal plans etc across all your computers no matter where they are located Support for tracking and graphing diabetic factors correlated with meals and snacks Support for password protection to keep unwanted personnel from snooping into confidential information i OE a oreo ee 108 EE Support for a user customizable Quick Access ToolBar An integrated Work Planner that allows you to schedule and your work schedule day by Ability to select which formulas are used to calculate calories requirements calorie expenditures max heart rates training zones etc Ability to selectively reset all formulas used in the software to original defaults This will save you in the event you make a error while modifying a formula Ability to convert the serving size of any new food item you enter into the database so that you can use it in your most common serving size Support for indirect calorimeters sete Automatic support for using the Mifflin St Jeor method for calculating calorie needs 222 Automatic support for using EER Estimated Energy Requirements to calculate calorie 8 Z needs Support for using the Harris Benedict formula for calculating calorie needs Abi2. nutritional and or exercise goals And unhappy faces on the days they don t Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time se sional Recipe Management Nutritionist NutriB Profes Generate customized recipe reports that look precisely the way you want then publish them in word processor format This allows you to publish a word processor formatted cookbook from the software Ability to create recipes by defining serving sizes of ingredients in calories This gives you the ability to create say 200 calorie snack packs from cereals nuts etc Do you have a streamlined Food Cost Database that allows you to quickly and conveniently edit existing food costs add new ones and or delete existing records This allows the software to tell you what it costs you for a single servings of any recipes meals and meal plans Ability to organize recipes into a tabbed notebook with the ability to add delete and or rename recipe tabs Tabbed notebook for recipes with the ability to drag and drop recipes between tabs Ability to organize tabbed notebooks of recipes into Recipe Folders This allows you to organize your recipes by type i e low fat low sodium vegetarian weight loss etc Ability to view your recipes along with their nutrient values in a spreadsheet view then rank sort them from high to low based on any nutrient by clicking the column header Then reversing the sort by clicking
3. the header again Ability to move recipes from Recipe Folder to Recipe Folder a Ability to select and copy recipe food items and portion sizes into an editable shopping list 88a Are recipes compatible exportable and transportable across other editions of their software H Stamp recipes with your byline authorship credentials copyright company phone tc O before distributing them Ability to format cooking instructions by setting fonts and point sizes inserting bullets italicizing boldfacing underlining and aligning your text Automatically display Total Calories and the PCF Protein Carbohydrate Fat Ratio or CPF Ratio for all recipes CCC O ms Processor Cele elelee ere jejee Jee Record recipes within recipes That is use a recipe as an ingredient in another recipe Ability to record a recipe as either a recipe one entry or as a list of ingredients multiple entries Change the number of servings per recipe 8 8 8 Ability to view nutrient information for a recipe as a percentage of Daily Values 8 e e Customize your recipes to make them look any way you want then publish them in a web g a E page format that perfectly matches the look and feel of your Web Site Customize your recipes then publish them automatically in WP or web page format dozens or even hundreds of reports at a time We call this batch processing of custom recipes Recipe scaling changing the amount
4. ay Nutrition Software Comparison The chart below compares the top three Windows nutrition software products designed dietitians trainers doctors educators food service organizations chefs and health professionals These products are NutriBase Professional Software from CyberSoft Food Processor SQL from Esha Research and Nutritionist Pro from Axxya Systems Legend g Yes No 3 Somewhat Professional Nutritionist Generate Publication Quality U S Nutrition Facts Labels WMF EMF JPG PDF at no additional charge Generate Publication Quality Canadian Nutrition Facts Tables WMF EMF JPG PDF in English French English French or French English at no additional charge Does the software let you synchronize your data food logs recipes client information meal plans etc on all your computers no matter where you are located so you are always using the latest data Does the software let you collaborate by sharing your real time data food logs recipes client information meal plans etc with two ten or hundreds of colleagues on computers located in the same city state country or planet Does the company s Web Site provide links to its competitors 8 8 28 Does the company s web site provide an update history page to indicate all changes and Q enhancements made to the software from version to version Does the company s web site provide a list of the unique features features that no other T competing software p
5. bedding your return email address a custom image Personal Foods and Recipes Ability to customize the name of your Client Intake Module software by embedding your own software caption to be displayed by the software Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time Integrated Backup and Restore Integrated backup and restore program to make it easy to move your data back and forth T between computers Ability to backup and restore your information to and from your flash drive and any other lt 2 removable media Will the software email your backup to another user or to yourself Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time Professional Information Tracking Features Track and graph Diabetic factors correlated with meals and snacks Professional NutriBase Track and graph Body Fat Percentages as well as Body Weight for all clients Track and report on body chemistry triglycerides uric acid etc and personal information doctor pharmacist etc Establish weight goals based on percentage body fat content then track the progress for all g clients Track and report on anything you want to track with date and optional time stamping Track and report on measurements waist pant size etc and miscellaneous items ovulation cigarettes etc Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time Internet Related Featur
6. cking and graphing diabetic factors correlated with meals and snacks from tS 2 a within the Food Log function View analyses of a Food Log day s individual meals or snacks both numerically and 2 2 graphically by simply clicking their tabs Ability to copy a Food Log or selected meals and or snacks from a day s intake from any e Q client to any another client or clients on any day or days you specify Ability to assign a food item to a particular meal or snack while adjusting its serving sizes ggg G elele Ability to create a food list that will be auto recorded to a client s Food Log each time you open e Z Q a new day s Food Log for that client Ability to copy intake food items and portion sizes into an editable shopping list Calendar that can be set up to award thumbs up or thumbs down icons when clients meet Q or don t meet daily nutrition goals Analyze intake relative to customized client goals Automatically display Total Calories and the PCF Protein Carbohydrate Fat Ratio or CPF Ratio for all intakes Set alarms to trigger when clients exceed any nutrient limit s you program for them Ability to track mood for graphing and tracking purposes while record food logs Ability to track steps per day in the food log pedometer tracking Ability to produce a My Plate report in the food log g a a Client calendar that awards clients a happy face on days when they meet their personal
7. dit it for changes from the hard copy summary An advanced Under Over capability that lets you automatically insert Under or Over comments that you create and or edit into your intake analysis report when a client is under or over any goal for any nutrient Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time Fitness Management Nutritionist Professional NutriBase Ability to calculate exercise calorie expenditures that takes the client s body weight into e consideration Track and graph body fat content as well as body weight weight and track them Create edit save and retrieve workouts for use with clients 18 User customizable Gym Log for tracking anything you want about your workouts 88a Set exercise calorie expenditure goals with calculations based on your client s current body Ability to calculate exercise calorie expenditures that take the client s age and gender into e Z e consideration Full support for Target Heart Rate Training with the ability to customize up to five Training Heart Rate Zones by letting you define Zone Names set min and max zone ranges and the primary benefits Ability to calculate exercise calorie expenditures that take the client s resting pulse and exercise intensity as measured by heart rate or by perceived intensity ratings Ability to move exercises and activities from list to list to prevent having to scroll through dozens or even hundre
8. ds of activities you rarely perform to find the few that you actually perform Ability to record the calories and other information provided by monitored exercise machines like programmable treadmills or heart rate monitors and enter this directly into the software for calculations Ability to batch process automatically generate calorie expenditure reports for dozens or even hundred of clients at once Ability to produce a client specific Expenditures Report listing how the exercise calories a client would burn with calculations based on the client s age gender body weight and exercise intensity as measured by in zone heart rate in performing any of a variety of exercises for 30 g 2 e minutes Ability to track your 24 hour activity and exercise calories separately from your daily food intake so that you can generate a direct comparison of calories burned to calories taken in Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time Client Intake Module Professional Client Intake Module the ability to burn a Client Intake Module CD from within the application to give to your clients so they can install the software and record their own food intakes and exercise activities then email you their results with the click of a button A royalty free Client Intake Module that never expires and that you can offer as a free download from your web site Ability to customize your Client Intake Module by em
9. es Professional Ability to synchronize your data recipes food logs meal plans etc via the Internet to assure you always have the same data on all your computers no matter where they are located Ability to fully customize a recipe or meal in your software and save it as a web page that looks like any web page on the Internet that you want it to Ability to generate custom multi page Assessment Reports containing 180 facts the software knows about that client for surfers who have completed your web based questionnaire Ability to have the nutrition software log on clients from a web based database that is fed by a web based questionnaire you ve placed there Ability to deliver custom multi page Assessment Reports for surfers in Rich Text Format compatible with word processors and suitable for printing text format for inclusion in email messages or in HTML format to post as a page on your web site Ability to log on clients from a web based questionnaire installed on your site Ability to batch process automatically generate dozens or hundreds of custom reports in ready to use web page format that are ready to upload to your site Ability to export your client list for use with your email client like Outlook Express for mass tS mailings This is useful for sending your clients newsletters or special promotions Ability to instantly and automatically generate custom multi page Assessment Reports for
10. lity to customize the formulas used in the calorie calculation methods like Harris Benedict and Mifflin St Jeor Support for indirect calorimeters ajaja Ability to modify the selected formula by changing the formula s variables to modify the way the software calculates calories requirements calorie expenditures max heart rate training zones etc Ability to tell the software to automatically select the appropriate nutrient goals based on age and gender as desired Ability to tell the software to automatically select 1 3 or 2 3 DRI aisle Ability to edit your auto selected DRI s to include the nutrient goals that have not yet been established for DRI s Ability to select frequently used food items from the nutrient database and organize them as personal food items in a tabbed notebook for quick access for use in your recipes intakes and meal plans Ability to organize your personal food items by adding tabs renaming tabs and deletins e e tabs Ability to add your personal food items to a tabbed notebook then organize them v dragging and dropping these items from tab to tab Ability to create U S Nutrition Facts Labels and Canadian Nutritions Facts Tables from ar within the software see see footnote footnote In addition to the basic nutrition label data can you add data for Polyunsaturated Fat Monounsaturated Fat Potassium Vitamin A Vitamin C Calcium Iron Vitamin D Vitamin a E Vitamin K Thiami
11. n Riboflavin Niacin Vitamin B6 Folate Vitamin B12 Biotin nea nea Pantothenic Acid Phosphorus lodine Magnesium Zinc Selenium Copper Manganese footnote footnote Chromium Chloride and or Molybdenum Ability to save Nutrition Facts Labels as JPG Web friendly format or as a BMP document friendly format Generate customized Personal Food Item reports that look precisely the way you want g then publish them in word processor or Web Page format Ability to organize tabbed notebooks for frequently eaten foods into Personal Food Item Folders This gives you the ability to organize your meals by type i e supplements frequently eaten foods recipe ingredients etc Ability to export your client s email information into a format suitable for email programs like MS Outlook for mass mailings like email newsletters to your clients Ability to move personal food items not only from tab to tab but also from PFI Folder to g PFI Folder Ability to add food items to the program by entering the Percent Daily Values as provided E on Nutrition Facts Labels Nutritional data published in world s most popular series of nutritional information books ee Ability to format your client notes by setting fonts and point sizes inserting bullets italicizing boldfacing underlining and aligning your text Glossary of foods healthy food substitution lists dieting tips toll free numbers for food makers s Footnote Esha
12. nd name recipe by e Q Z ingredient or by name or meal by ingredient or by name Ability to add an unlimited number of foods to the program Ability to view live nutrient data alphabetically by food name in a tabular spreadsheet Q format of columns and rows Ability to re sequence the columns of live nutrient data by dragging and dropping their column headers and have the software remember the new sequence for you This allows you to compare the nutrient values on screen for several similar foods at once Ability to resize column widths of live nutrient data by dragging the right edge of column headers left or right in the nutrient database This allows you to display more columns of live data on the screen at once View data for any food item located in the spreadsheet view of the live nutrient data in a single screen view by double clicking on it Ability to display categories of foods such as cereals ready to eat or diabetes glucose intolerance and their associated nutrients alphabetically by food names in a tabular spreadsheet format Does the database provide commercial ingredients in the database These are the ingredients sometimes difficult to pronounce that appear on the ingredient listings of many commercial foods Can you produce a Nutrient Density Index NDI Report The NDI is an estimate of the mean value per calorie for the sum of the total amount of each of up to 25 nutrient fact
13. of each ingredient in a recipe to make a different total amount Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time Reporting Features Professional Nutritionist Track diabetic factors including rolling average Blood Glucose BG high BG value low BG value of values within range of 70 to 140 carbohydrates PCF Ratio and exercise Ability to batch process automatically generate dozens or even hundreds of custom multi page Initial Assessment Reports in word processor format Ability to generate custom multi page Initial Assessment Reports in ready to post Web Pace format for clients Auto Insert custom text or graphical bitmap report headers featuring your logo name address phone etc at the top of every report Save recipes meal plans and other documents or reports as Web Pages HTML Format This facilitates the addition of recipe reports and other reports to an existing Web Site Ability to generate custom multi page Initial Assessment Reports in ready to post Web Page format for clients Save recipes meal plans and other reports in Rich Text Format RTF This lets you open your report with your favorite word processor with all formatting retained font sizes tab stops centering bolding etc Ability to capture your company name or your own name as a macro for automatic insertion into your Assessment Reports Ability to generate custom template driven Assessment Repor
14. ors Include Glycemic Index Glycemic Load data Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time Ranking Sort Capabilities Professional Rank sort food items from high to low or low to high based on Percent Calories from Protein Percent Calories from Carbohydrates Percent Calories from Fat Calories from Protein Calories from Carbohydrates or Calories from Fat Rank sort foods from high to low or low to high based on their values for any selected nutrient Ability to view your recipes meals and personal food items then rank them on screen from high to low or low to high based the values for any nutrient by clicking their column headers while you are viewing them in the spreadsheet view Global ranking capability across all nutrient databases recipes personal food items etc Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time Query Boolean AND Search Capabilities Professional The Food Processor NutriBase Conduct queries Boolean AND Searches on the nutrient data for one 1 specific food brand name and or serving size by specifying upper or lower limits for as up to ten 10 nutrient components Conduct queries Boolean AND Searches on the nutrient data for multiple foods brands and or serving sizes by specifying upper or lower limits for as few or as many nutrient g ce components as desired Ability to query the nutrient database to sh
15. ow you all the menu items from say Burger King McDonald s and Wendy s with at no more than say 8 grams of saturated fat sorted from low to high based on their values for saturated fat Footnote Nutritionist Pro can perform Boolean AND searches for a maximum of ten nutrients Nutritionist Pro does not allow you to limit your search to a list of foods or brand names you can limit your search to a single food name or brand name This means you wouldn t be able to locate for example all the Hamburgers French Fries and Milk Shakes from Jack in the Box McDonald s and Burger King that contain a maximum of 20 grams of Fat no more than 500 mg of Sodium and at least 4 grams of Protein Nutritionist Pro does not allow you to specify upper or lower limits to Percent Calories from Fat Percent Calories from Protein Percent Calories from Carbohydrates Calories from Fat Calories from Protein or Calories from Carbohydrates Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time Food Log Management Nutritionist NutriBase Professional Processor Pro The Food Will the software tell you the Next Best Food To Eat the NBFTE based on what you ve eaten so far compared to your daily nutrition goals G A mode for researchers with the ability to record an intake blind to an ID number and without the need to first obtain profile information such as age gender weight height etc Support for tra
16. recommends that you purchase their Genesis R amp D software 4 999 00 and up to create Nutrition Facts Labels For commercial quality Nutrition Facts Label generation using Nutritionist Pro Axxya Systems recommends you purchase the optional Nutrition Facts Label Module available from Axxya Systems for 595 Notes This chart was prepared to help you sort out the differences in these various packages Because of the complex interactions that exist among the software components of today s high end nutrition programs there is often more than one way to get a job done and updates can add features taht were not present when this chart was last updated For these reasons we recommend you visit Esha Research and Axxya Systems for up to date information regarding their latest software Comment Do you have a comment regarding any aspect of this Comparison Chart Do you feel something is ambiguous requires clarification or is misleading Whether you re a current user a prospective software user or if you are a NutriBase competitor we invite you to make your comments known Our goal is to make this chart as accurate as possible If your comment has merit we ll remove modify or clarify our comment as needed to improve its accuracy This chart was updated on April 4 2014 RY CyberSoft Inc Copyright 1986 2015 All rights reserved info nutribase com 877 223 5459
17. roducts offer of their software Does the company provide free updates via 24 7 Internet download links to registered users e of the current versions of the product Does your order include a hard copy comprehensive 250 page User s Manual 6 8 e Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time Nutrient Database Does the software use a research quality nutrient database that includes the USDA Q Q Q Nutrient Database for Standard Reference e Food Processor Nutritionist z a 3 Does the software include data from the Canadian Nutrient Files books Total number of nutrient information books titles in print based on the nutrient 7 2 2 information contained in the software 5 Total number of unique brand names in the database 11 232 Total number of unique restaurants featured in the database Total number of restaurant menu items in the database 6 051 1 600 Does the software display color coded background Alerts for Sodium Saturated Fat S e Z and Cholesterol values Ability to display the complete nutrient data for more than one food item at a time as a Q 3 3 result of a search across the software s nutrient database A Nutrient Density View that allows you to compare in a spreadsheet view the nutrients from for all foods at a serving size defined as a specific calorie level of each food A Nutrient Density View that allows you to compare in a spreadsheet view
18. the nutrients from for all foods at a serving size defined as a specific gram level of each a food Ability to locate USDA food items by their Nutrient Databank numbers Is the displayed nutrient data keyed to indicate where the nutrient information came S Q from Ability to conduct searches within your search results Can you conduct your food searches across any or all databases including USDA Has the data from the nutrient database been published in millions of nutrient information Canadian Brand Personal Foods Recipes and Meals Ability to jump from a given word or phrase within your search results la Ability to resize the nutrient data display and have the software remember the change Ono Ability to sort all the food items you are viewing live from high to low based their values for any nutrient by clicking the column header for that nutrient Then reversing the sort a a order by clicking the header again Does the software flag nutrient totals that include values from food items with missing Q Q e values for any nutrient values in reports Ability to define which nutrients get displayed as a result of searches in the nutrient database For example can you display only the saturated fat sodium and cholesterol g g g values for all the foods located by a search of the nutrient database Ability to search on either food names or brand names 8 Search screen that permits you to search by food name bra
19. ts that allow you to create highly customized multi page reports for each of your clients Ability to batch process automatically generate dozens or even hundreds of custom multi page Initial Assessment Reports in HTML web page format Questions info nutribase com or 877 223 5459 Mon Thu 8 3 Arizona time Analysis Capabilities Professional The Food Processor Export reports in Excel format CSV format and word processor formats Nutrient Food Log analysis that lets you select the client or clients the dates cherry pick or select a range the meals and or snacks the nutrients the factors percentages totals averages etc and personal information Recipe analysis that lets you select the nutrients you wish to analyze and offer the option to g g g include complete nutrient information for every ingredient in the recipe if desired Capable of handling nutrient intake Group Studies involving large numbers tens to even E 2 2 thousands of individuals Ability to compile data for studies by sharing the data food logs recipes etc with personnel situationed in remote locations around the state country or world Meal plan analysis that lets you select the days of the meal plan the meals and or snacks the nutrients and the factors percentages totals averages etc Generate a checklist format summary organized by meals for clients to carry with them Record the meal plan as the client s intake then e
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