| Software
Name |
Government
Sponsored or "National" Databases |
Additional
Food Items |
Additional
Nutrients |
Number
of Nutrients Reported |
| CompEat
|
UK
McCance & Widdowson 5th ed. plus
all supplements.
UK
6th edition is imminent
USA
(USDA)
- 6120 foods.
Nutrition
Systems can convert any database for use in
CompEat.
|
UK
MAFF (integrated with UK 5th
edition with all supplements to avoid
redundancy).
|
No
|
158
|
| Dietplan5
|
UK,
Germany, Bespoke. |
UK
MAFF (integrated with UK 5th
edition with all supplements to avoid
redundancy).
Supports
addition of up to 10,000 additional user-defined
foods.
|
Additional
nutrients can be defined and entered by the end
user. |
Maximum
140 |
| LeDiet
|
Originally
based on France's CIQUAL
database. |
Food
items progressively added from nutrient
databases of other countries as the web service
is marketed outside France. Other
countries currently include Belgium, Canada,
Switzerland (French), UK, USA (Germany to be
added by end of 2002). |
 |
All
nutrients reported by the various national
databases.
|
| Microdiet
|
UK
McCance & Widdowson 4th and 5th editions plus
related
supplements.
Next
version of software will support USDA data, or
data from any other database.
A
"partly Italian" version has also been
created, with Italian data (from Banca
dati di composizione degli alimenti per studi
epidemiologici in Italia - see FAO
listing) merged with the UK data.
|
UK
MAFF (integrated with UK 5th
edition with all supplements to avoid
redundancy).
|
No
|
Up
to 150 per food item (where available).
|
| Tinuviel
Nutrition Software |
UK
- latest version supplied by HMSO under licence
(5th edition).
USDA
- latest version.
|
Supports
addition of up to 8000 additional foods
(client-specific data can be preloaded prior to
shipment, or user can add later themselves). |
Additional nutrients can
be supplied by
liaison with research groups who own the data.
|
Up
to 125. |