FoodWorks

FoodWorks has all the features you need to save time and energy - plus more...

Over 40,000 food references including USDA Standard Reference 28, the Food and Nutrition Database for Dietary Studies , and the Canadian Nutrient File 2010 plus direct data from 7 fast food restaurants.
Database includes foods, recipes, and ingredients, plus you can add your own.
113 nutrients and food components: use any or all nutrients in your analysis.
Unlimited database expansion: add and manage as many new foods as you require.
Nutrient analysis of meals, recalls, recipes, menu cycles, and individual food items.
-Analysis by day, meal, average of multiple days, average of meals on multiple days, and time of intake.
-Multiple-day Nutrient Averaging for up to 30 days in a single food list.
-Nutrient Trend Tracking for up to 30 days in a single food list.
Four Dietary Standards: DRI (RDAs and Adequate Intakes), Daily Values, Canadian RNI, FAO/WHO.
Custom Dietary Standards: Create an unlimited number of customized dietary standards for clients with special dietary or clinical needs.
Optional use of the Adequate Macronutrient Distribution Range values of the DRI.
Five Basal Metabolism formulas including BEE, Mifflin-St. Jeor, BSA, FAO/WHO, and DRI Energy Values.
Comprehensive on-screen instructions, user manual, and context-sensitive help including detailed "walk-throughs" of FoodWorks functions and tasks.
Energy Expenditure analysis for single or multiple days, including calories expended per activity and percentage breakdown of total energy expenditure.
Weight management and body mass index (BMI) calculator.
Analysis Quick Reference: This display presents continuously updated analysis results for seven nutrients of your choosing.
On-screen display of all analysis results including nutrients in each food, bar graph comparing results with recommended nutrient intake, calorie distribution and fat breakdown pie charts, carbohydrate counts, P:S and Ca:P ratios, and much more.
QuickData feature providing instant nutrient values for any selected food item.
FoodMate – A free companion program to FoodWorks that allows your clients to create diet recalls and then submit them to you for analysis.
Multi-word food search with exclusion feature.
Frequently Used Food list shows foods matching your current search that you have chosen before, making it easier than ever to locate foods to include in an analysis.
Nutrient Preview of the nutritional content of the serving of food you are selecting.
Nutrient screen function, to locate foods containing a specified level of a nutrient.
Share data for your added foods with colleagues who also use FoodWorks simply by emailing them a FoodWorks project file.
Nutrition Facts label maker (vertical and horizontal formats) including and Facts Up Front. FoodWorks can generate both the old and new Nutrition Facts labels.
Importing & Exporting Data
-Import food/nutrient data from spreadsheets into the FoodWorks database.
-Export user-added foods for use in spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel.
-Export analysis results for use with word processors, spreadsheet software, and presentation software.
-Export Nutrition Facts labels, graphics, and menus to documents and presentations.
Recipes
-Save your recipes as food items in the database so that you can use them in other analyses and cycles.

-Automatic adjustment of recipe analysis to reflect nutrient content of one serving.

-Calculate recipe yield from approximate weight of a single serving.

-Recipes Scaling--increase or decrease servings and/or portion size.

-Apply "waste factors" to recipes to account for production loss.

-Meal and recipe cost estimate calculator.

-Easily cut-and-paste recipes created with FoodWorks into any word processor.

-Utility to design and use nutrient retention and shrinkage factors in recipe analysis.

-Serving size converter, for easy conversion from one household serving to another.
Printouts - Large selection of attractive, colorful, easy to understand printouts (click the Sample Reports link at the top of this page to see printout examples).
-Shopping List information printout.
-Analysis Critique printout--you can modify the printout to include custom messages that say whatever you want in any language you want to help clients improve intake and compliance with diet recommendations.
Cycle menu management.
Up to 15 meal tags for traditional meals as well as non-traditional eating patterns, such as athletes in training.
Premature birth date adjustment calculator.
Save projects and client data in files for easy recall and sharing.
Analysis Tracking Notepad--store client notes, clinical data, tray card information, recipe instructions, HACCP data, and other useful information.