| Software
Name |
Government
Sponsored or "National" Databases |
Additional
Food Items |
Additional
Nutrients |
Number
of Nutrients Reported |
| CompEat
|
USA
(USDA)
- 6120 foods.
UK.
McCance & Widdowson 5th ed. plus
all supplements.
UK
6th edition is imminent
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 |
| Diet
and Weight Analyst (DWA) |
USDA
(S.R.14) |
No
|
No |
All
reported by USDA (S.R. 14) |
| DietPower
(Consultant's Edition) |
USDA
(S.R.12, and parts of S.D. 7 or 8) |
2500
foods from 32 of the 100 largest restaurant
chains in the USA. |
No |
33 |
| ESHA
Food
Processor |
USDA
(S.R.14), CNF 2001. |
Approximately
12000 additional food items. |
(Added
by carefully combining data from over 1200
scientific nutrient data sources.)
|
165 |
| Food
Intake Analysis System (FIAS) |
USDA's
CSFII 1994-1996, 1998 Survey Nutrient
Database. Later in 2002, USDA's S.R. 15
will be added. |
No
|
No |
52
(more nutrients will be available later in 2002
with incorporation of S.R. 15) |
| Food
Smart |
USDA
(S.R.14), CNF 2001. |
No
|
No
|
65 |
| FUEL |
USDA
(S.R. released in 1997), CNF 1997. Later
in 2002, USDA S.R. 14 and CNF 2001 will be used
by the software.
Medical
Version (slated for release by end of 2002) will
provide option of supporting additional European
and Latin American food databases.
|
Later
in 2002
|
No
|
120 |
| 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.
|
| Nutrition
Data System for Research (NDS-R) |
USDA
(S.R.14) |
Approximately
16000 additional foods including brand names. |
(There are virtually no missing values in NDS-R. If an analytic value is not available for
a nutrient in a food, the Nutrition Coordinating
Center calculates the value based on the
nutrient content of other nutrients in the same
food or on a product ingredient list, or
estimates the value based on the nutrient
content of similar foods. A missing nutrient
value is allowed only if 1) the value is
believed to be negligible, 2) the food is
usually eaten in small amounts, 3) it is unknown
if the nutrient exists in the food at all, or 4)
there is no way to estimate the value because
the food is unlike any other.)
|
126
nutrients, nutrient ratios and food components. |
| Nutritionist
Pro |
USDA
(S.R.14), CNF 2001, CSFII Survey Database,
Alaskan foods, Mexfoods database, Malaysian
foods database.
UK
McCance & Widdowson 5th or 6th edition
coming in 2003.
|
Over
12,000 additional food items. |
|
88
|
| SERVE
|
All
databases are latest editions.
Australia
AUSNUT
(over 4500 foods),
NUTTAB
(over 1800 foods), and
AUSNUT
Special Edition for food labeling (over 4000
foods)
New
Zealand
Foodfiles
database from Crop and Food research (over 3250
foods)
USA
USDA
(S.R. 14) with over 6000 foods.
|
No
|
No |
Number
of nutrients reported varies by database.
Australia
AUSNUT
(31 nutrients per food),
NUTTAB
(29 nutrients per food), and
AUSNUT
Special Edition for food labeling (8 nutrients
per food)
New
Zealand
Foodfiles
database from Crop and Food research (54
nutrients per food)
USA
USDA
(S.R. 14) with over 80 nutrients
per food. |
| SweetWARE
(nutraCoster Professional) |
USDA
(no release version number provided by vendor) |
2500
additional foods (many items especially
pertinent to bakery industry). |
No |
Not
reported by vendor. |
| 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). |
Users
can edit food composition data if they wish.
Additional nutrients can also be supplied by
liaison with research groups who own the data.
|
Up
to 125. |