Comparisons of NutriBase, Food Processor, and Nutritionist Pro
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1. User on multiple PC s OR by multiple End Users on a single PC 3 Neither Food Processor nor Nutritionist Pro have the ability to calculate track and set goals based on Body Fat Content so having the ability to measure body fat content would not be useful in the software 4 Toll free tech support for NutriBase never expires Updates are free for the version purchased Upgrades are available for half retail price or less 5 Some of these numbers were difficult to determine Neither Food Processor nor Nutritionist Pro have the ability to generate a sorted list of unique food or brand names by food category 6 Unique Brand Names refers to the count of the number of different brand names represented in the database For instance McDonald s may appear hundreds of times throughout the database but it is counted here as one unique brand name 7 With NutriBase if you locate three entries for say Granulated Sugar 1 tsp Granulated Sugar 100 gm and Granulated Sugar 1 cup we count these three entries as a single unique food entry To preserve an apples to apples comparison we use the more conservative unique food number value in this chart Professional Nutrition Software Comparison Chart March 21 2011 with missing values for any nutrient values in reports YES YES Can you define which nutrients get displayed in search results YES Include Food Exchanges Food Guide Pyramid YES Rank all foods in your list from high to l2. we recommend you visit the web sites of these companies or call them for the latest information regarding their most current software offerings If you know of a feature that our competitors have that we don t support let us know we ll add it to this chart Page 9 of 9
3. Comparisons of NutriBase Food Processor and Nutritionist Pro Updated March 21 2011 Name of the company who develops and supports the software CyberSoft Inc Esha Research Axxya Systems Web address for product information Phone number for product information 877 223 545 800 659 3742 800 709 2799 Soames ont 3 5459 YES ES ES Does the web site provide links to its competitors ES Product available for secure on line purchase and immediate download ES ES ES ES ES ES Does the license permit installing on more than one PC at no additional cost YES mw Does your order include a complimentary set of Digital Body Fat Calipers Y Does the company s web site provide a detailed chronological Update History page Does your order include a free one handed loop style body measurement tape Free 24 7 email support for as long as you are using the software Free toll free phone support for as long as you are using the product Y Free 24 7 Internet downloads for updates to all registered users for current i and past versions Number of top selling nutritional information books in print oe 20 no no no no no no no ie 1 Toll free tech support for NutriBase never expires Updates are free for the version purchased Upgrades are half price 2 The NutriBase End User License Agreement permits activations on up to three computers Each copy of NutriBase software is licensed for use by one End
4. anges inclination and or speed over the duration of the exercise you can still enter a good number for calories burned 23 NutriBase and Food Processor both take the client s body weight into consideration when calculating calorie expenditures NutriBase uses Kcal hr Ib or Kcal hr Kg depending on whether the user has selected English or Metric measurements in their User Preferences Food Processor uses Kcal hr Kg of body weight Nutritionist Pro uses calories per minute values which disregard the client s body weight Nutritionist Pro will calculate the same calorie expenditure for 30 minutes of aerobics for an 82 Ib girl or a 320 Ib man Page 6 of 9 Professional Nutrition Software Comparison Chart March 21 2011 Ability to convert your recipes into customized web pages for any web site YES Ability to batch process automatically generate dozens or hundreds of eer YES no no custom reports as customized web pages in a single pass Ability to deliver custom multi page Assessment Reports in Rich Text YES i Format text format or in HTML format Ability to export your client list for use with your email client like MS A YES no no Outlook for mass newsletter mailings Ability to save most reports in PDF format for use on your web site for to Aey l YES no no email from within the software to colleagues and clients Ability to export your client list for use with your email client like MS a YES no no Outlook
5. anize them by dragging and dropping these items into tabs Automatically display Calories and the PCF or CPF Ratio for recipes intakes Food Logs meals and meal plans Stamp all recipes meals and meal plans with your byline prior to distribution Hard copy comprehensive 150 page User s Manual End User License that allows you to install the software onto multiple PC s without paying for multiple copies so long as you are the sole user Ability to export information from your contact list into a format suitable for use with an email program like MS Outlook Ability to export your client contact information for use with your email program to facilitate convenient mass mailings to your clients Ability to format client notes by setting fonts and point sizes inserting bullets italicizing boldfacing underlining and aligning Ability to select frequently used foods 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 select which formulas are used to calculate calories requirements calorie expenditures max heart rates training zones etc Then adjust them as desired Then reset them if necessary Click a button to email your backups to yourself or to others add to the NutriBase database 27 Food Processor s Nutrition Facts Label report generator produces a single label For commercial quality Nutr
6. by clicking the column header for the nutrient of interest Ability to restrict rankings to 100 gram serving sizes of all foods Flexible formatted report capability that allows you to select which nutrients YES you want to include in our reports Ability to batch process dozens or hundreds of custom multi page Initial YES Assessment Reports in word processor format or in web page format Ability to store your company name or your own name as a macro for YES insertion into your reports Ability to print selected pages or a range of pages in your report YES Auto Insert custom text or graphical bitmap report headers featuring your 19 logo name address phone etc at the top of every report YES Somewhat Formatted report capability that allows you to select the nutrients days YES i meals totals subtotals etc Formatted report capability that allows you to include pie charts nutrition YES facts labels borders drop shadows shading dividers etc Ability to save reports in word processor web page PDF and text formats Ability to export analyses into Excel and other spreadsheet formats Ability to insert customizable under and over comments into intake reports 205 Ability to include selected nutrient data for every ingredient in your reports no no Ability to select the nutrients to analyze in a recipe or intake report Handle nutrient intake Group Studies involving hundreds of individuals and produci
7. essional SE Special Edition which retails for 895 It takes about a minute to manually log on a new client in NutriBase The NutriBase Professional SE edition can log on 100 clients from a web based questionnaire in about 10 seconds NutriBase captures all contact information in the Client Contact Manager for you and logs on all clients automatically 25 These Network Features refer to the Enterprise editions of NutriBase and the network editions of Food Processor and Nutritionist Pro 26 The caption is the wording that appears at the top of your software s Home Page This title identifies the program to your clients You can name your Client Intake Module anything you want to name it Page 7 of 9 Professional Nutrition Software Comparison Chart March 21 2011 Support for password protection to keep unwanted personnel from accessing your information Ability to calculate calorie requirements using by supporting the Estimated Energy Requirements table Ability to track and graph diabetic factors and correlate them with the Client s meals snacks and activities exercise Ability to access your Client Notes through a calendar interface Ability to add nutrient data for new foods by entering the Daily Values Ability to convert and save foods added to software in any serving size Ability to save Nutrition Facts Label as BMP JPG WMF EMF and PDF files 7 Ability to add your personal food items to a tabbed notebook then org
8. foods after you generate a report no ranking features supported Page 3 of 9 Professional Nutrition Software Comparison Chart March 21 2011 Ability to select and copy recipe items into an editable shopping list Ability to rank all your recipes based on their values for any nutrients Yes no mw Are recipes shareable transferrable across other editions of the software 82 Ability to publish your recipes for your cookbook in a custom word processor formatted cookbook format from within the software Tabbed notebook with the ability to add delete or rename tabs and the ability to drag and drop recipes from tab to tab Ability to drag and drop meals from Meal Folder to Meal Folder a Ability to organize tabbed notebooks for meals into Meal Folders to YES nG organize your meals by type i e diabetic body building etc Ability to display the Percent Daily Values for meals while viewing them Yes no m Meal plan analysis that lets you select the days the meals nutrients and the factors percentages totals averages etc Record the meal plan as the client s YES no intake then edit it for changes from the hard copy summary Ability to view your Meals along with their nutrient values in a spreadsheet YES i view then rank them from high to low or low to high based on any nutrient Copy any day s intake or selected meals and or snacks from a day s intake from any meal plan day to another da
9. for mass newsletter mailings Ability to generate custom reports in ready to use HTML web page format A YES no no that are laid out exactly as you specify Ability to capture information from surfers who fill out an assessment YES SE Edition ia questionnaire on your web page Ability to instantly generate custom multi page assessment reports for YES SE Edition eR surfers who ve completed your web based questionnaire A mode that lets users view what others have done recipes meal plans n io intakes etc but can only modify or delete their own work A mode that permits all other users to view modify and delete only the no no work they ve created themselves A mode that permits all other users to view modify or delete each other s work recipes meal plans intakes etc A special Master User password that allows unrestricted access Ability to specify the access level and privileges for specific users Password protected log on for all users Can you burn a CD for your clients to take home install and record their own food intake and exercise activities Can you distribute the Client Intake Module CIM to clients royalty free download from your web site Ability to control the software title caption displayed by your software Can the software import and analyze the food intake data provided by your clients via email or on removable media 24 These web form based features are for NutriBase Prof
10. ition Facts Labels Esha recommends their Genesis R amp D product which costs 4 999 00 and up For commercial quality Nutrition Facts Label creation with Nutritionist Pro you may purchase the optional Nutritionist Pro Nutrition Facts Label module available from Axxya Systems for 595 additional 28 Neither Food Processor nor Nutritionist Pro have the ability to calculate or track goals based on body fat content so body fat readings would have no value in these software packages Page 8 of 9 Professional Nutrition Software Comparison Chart March 21 2011 About this Report This report was prepared by CyberSoft the makers of NutriBase It was created to help you sort out the differences among the top tier nutrition software packages that target RD s and other health and nutrition professionals Because of the interactions that exist among the software components in today s high end nutrition programs there is often more than one way to get a job done Although considerable effort was expended in attempting to perform each of the functions cited in this report CyberSoft acknowledges that it may be possible that these software packages can accomplish one or more of these tasks in a way that was not clear to us after considerable effort Another factor that could affect the accuracy of this chart is the fact that new revisions of the various software packages may improve existing capabilities or add completely new features For these reasons
11. l food items new foods and frequently used foods and Meals In addition NutriBase allows you to store up to 26 of these tabbed notebooks in up to 26 Folders 17 A Meal is a collection of food items and recipes that define either a meal or snack In NutriBase you can store meals in tabbed notebooks and the tabbed notebooks up to 36 tabs in up to 26 folders Meals serve as building blocks for Meal Plans Mix and match them to create hundreds of unique Meal Plans 18 NutriBase includes Meal Plans for hypertension diabetes healthy heart balanced weight loss low carb weight loss 40 30 30 Vegan vegetarian and body building Each NutriBase Meal Plan contains up to 3 meals and 3 snacks per day for 4 weeks Each NutriBase Meal Plan is available in 8 different calorie levels Page 4 of 9 Professional Nutrition Software Comparison Chart March 21 2011 Global ranking sort for food items that allows you to rank the entire data base selected categories of the nutrient database or any combination of specific food subcategories of the database 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 while you are viewing them in a spreadsheet view Rank food items high to low or low to high based on Calories from or Calories from Protein Carbohydrates or Fat Rank foods on screen based on their values for any nutrient factor
12. lick a button to email the results to you Ability to assign intake items to specific meals while adjusting its serving size Ability to copy intakes or selected meals and or snacks from a day s intake from any client to any another client or clients on any day or days you a Ability to create a food list that will be auto recorded to a client s intake each time you open a new day s Food Log for that client Calendar that can be set up to award good or bad icons when clients meet or don t meet their daily nutrition goals Ability to assign a food item to a particular meal or snack while adjusting its ves ves wm serving sizes Support for tracking and graphing diabetic factors correlated with meals and ne YES no no snacks from within the Food Log function Ability to create a food list that will be auto recorded to a client s Food Log each time you open 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 or don t meet daily nutrition goals Analyze intake relative to customized client goals 3 Automatically display Total Calories and the PCF Protein Carbohydrate YES a Fat Ratio or CPF Ratio for all intakes Set alarms to trigger when clients exceed any nutrient limit s you program YES no for them Client calendar that awards clients a happy face
13. ng analyses for each individual and averages for the entire study Nutrient intake analysis that lets you select the client s the dates cherry pick or select a range meals nutrients factors totals averages etc and personal information 19 Food Processor lets you insert text headers into reports must be created for each report at the time you create it it doesn t store it as a reusable default value Food Processor does not support the insertion of graphical headers 20 NutriBase can auto insert comments into your intake analysis report when a client is under or over any goal for any nutrient These comments appear when you generate your analysis reports Typically under comments suggest good sources of the nutrient and over comments provide safe upper limit information You can edit and control what the comments say which ones are used and when they are used Page 5 of 9 Professional Nutrition Software Comparison Chart March 21 2011 Ability to track and graph body fat content as well as body weight YES Ability to accept resting metabolic rate from indirect calorimeters YES Ability to support Target Heart Rate Training YES mm m e Ability to track exercise and activities for 24 hour periods separately from YES no food intakes 7 ws w w E E E oe E E E E Ability to batoh process calorie expenditure reports YES m m Calorie expenditures report for clients that shows how many calories
14. nutrient information Live data does not apply to pre selected lists of food items such as those that may exist in reports for intakes meals meal plans food frequencies or recipes 12 The food name comment and brand name fields are combined in Food Processor and Nutritionist Pro Sample food description listing from Nutritionist Pro ENSURE with Fiber Sample Food Processor food description EnsureNutritionDrinkw FiberComp BtrPcnRL Sample listing from NutriBase Professional Name ENSURE WITH FIBER RTU Ready to use Comment fiber fortified supplemental total nutrition oral tube feed Kosher gluten lactose free low residue not for parenteral use Brand Ross Laboratories Because these fields are autonomous NutriBase permits a variety of useful queries on this information NutriBase will allow you for example to display all the frozen chicken entrees that have one of several selected brand names that have a maximum of say 4 5 mg of Saturated Fat 13 NutriBase defines an intake as a list of food items that a client has eaten or has been recommended to eat over a specified period of time Food Processor refers to an intake as a foodlist Food Processor also calls recipes and meal plans foodlists Nutritionist Pro refers to an intake as a diet Page 2 of 9 Professional Nutrition Software Comparison Chart March 21 2011 Ability to give your clients software to record their own food logs on their own PC then c
15. on days when they meet their personal nutritional and or exercise goals And unhappy faces on YES the days they don t Sort intake items based on any nutrient in a client s Food Log Costing feature Ability to calculate the cost per serving of your recipes YES YES nm Record a recipe as either a recipe one item or as a list of ingredients Ability to generate recipes then save them as customized web pages YES no m Ability to stamp recipes with your byline author credentials copyright YES m company phone etc before distributing them 14 Food Processor lets you select the nutrient you wish to see sources and amounts for single nutrient The bottom portion of the screen shows the amounts the percentages and a bar chart As you click on other nutrients the data on the screen changes to provide information for the selected nutrient All rankings are high to low Food Processor won t display the values sorted low to high 15 Nutritionist Pro displays nutrient values for foods in a diet A diet is Nutritionist Pro s nomenclature for an intake in a spreadsheet format This makes it fairly easy to see which food contains the most Fat or Sodium as long as the intake doesn t include too many ingredients Nutritionist Pro doesn t rank the food items based on selected nutrients or show the percentage of the nutrient that comes from each food item in the recipe Nutritionist Pro allows you to see the nutrients for
16. ow or low to high based on their values for any nutrient by clicking the column header for the nutrient Ability to display the nutrient data for more than one food item at a time as a result of a search across the software s nutrient database Ability to view data for entire categories of foods and all their associated nutrients in a tabular spreadsheet format Ability to dynamically resize column widths of live nutrient data Are the data rows tagged to identify the source of the nutrient data w Resequence live data by dragging and dropping column headers u Separately searchable food name comment and brand name fields 1 View live nutrient data in a tabular spreadsheet format View nutrient data for any food item in a single screen by double clicking it View the nutrient data the nutrient density for hundreds of foods simultaneously based on a fixed number of calories for each food item Can you adjust the number of calories on which you compare these foods Glycemic Index Glycemic Load data 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 View analyses of a Food Log day s individual meals or snacks both numerically and 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 client to any another clien
17. t s on any day s you specify Auto select the proper DRI based on gender and age 8 Looking at the nutrient data one item at a time is like looking at a huge nutrient database through a pinhole This approach is cumbersome inefficient and inadequate for sophisticated nutrient analysis Yet this is how you view the live nutrient data with programs like Food Processor and Nutritionist Pro one food item at a time NutriBase supports food name searches brand name searches and the View Rank and Query functions The results of all of these types of searches are always displayed in a tabular spreadsheet format with as many as 30 columns of data for over 60 food items at a time If you want to view the nutrient data for a single food item you can do that too just double click on any food item of interest 9 Live data is the actual nutrient data from the database that the product relies on for its nutrient information Live nutrient data does not apply to pre selected lists of food items such as those that may exist in reports for intakes meals meal plans food frequencies or recipes NutriBase lets you resize column widths for any product category then remembers that setting for you for future use 10 The background color of the data indicates whether the data came from the USDA SR Data the Canadian CNF data or the Brand Name database 11 Live nutrient data is the actual nutrient data from the database that the product relies on for its
18. they Ability to calculate calorie expenditures based on perceived exertion Yes no m Set exercise calorie expenditure goals and track them 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 YES no calories burned vs calories taken in Easy to use integrated backup and restore to make it easy to move data from one PC to another Backup and restore to and from flash drives and other removable media 3 Ability to email your backup to yourself or others Ee Ability to schedule backups and select how many past backups to keep Track report and graph body chemistry triglycerides uric acid etc and personal information doctor pharmacist etc Track report and graph on measurements pan pant size etc and miscellaneous items ovulation cigarettes etc Ability to track client information and export it for use with your email program for mailing out targeted email newsletters 21 NutriBase allows you to track your 24 hour activity and exercise calories separately from your 24 hour food intake This produces a direct comparison of calories burned with calories eaten and this results in a calorie surplus or deficit 22 This feature lets you take the calories and other data provided by monitored exercise machines like programmable treadmills or heart rate monitors and enter in the results If your treadmill ch
19. y or days of the same or YES no no different meal plan Are meal plans transportable across other editions of their software SS Customize your Meals to make them look any way you want then publish them in a customized web page word processor or PDF format Ability to copy a Meal Plan or part of a MP to a client s intake Ability to copy a Meal Plan or selected parts of a MP to another Meal Plan Yes no m Ability to copy a Client s Food Log into a Meal Plan Yes nm nm Ability to create edit copy analyze export import and distribute meal ne YES no plans to clients and users of other editions of the software Are professionally prepared Meal Plans included with the software G 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 components as desired Ability to query he nutrient data to show all menu items from say Burger King McDonalds amp Wendy s with at no more than say 8 grams of sat fat sorted from low to high based on their values for saturated fat 16 The ability to organize recipes into a tabbed notebook then add delete and rename tabs is critical if you are organizing hundreds of recipes that are targeted for a variety of special needs NutriBase allows you to drag and drop recipes from tab to tab NutriBase also uses this organizational approach to persona
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