 Runs on Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, or Windows Vista. 1 Gbyte of RAM or more is recommended. A minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels is required, but higher resolutions are better. No Mac versions are available but you can run NutriBase (and other Windows programs) on a Mac if you are running a Windows Emulator software package (like Virtual PC) or if you have a dual boot (Boot Camp) Mac with Windows installed.
Support for Palm PDA's. With NutriBase, you can use your Palm PDA to record food and exercise intakes, then HotSync to your Windows PC to generate in-depth reports using NutriBase for Windows. You can also transfer a nutrient database and exercise database to your client's Palm PDA's. Let them record their own food and exercise intakes for any period of time. When they HotSync their PDA's to your PC, you've captured all their intakes in your copy of NutriBase for Windows.
The NutriBase Intake Module allows your clients to install software to their own computers, record their food intakes, and email you their results.
The NutriBase Formatted Reports allow you to generate extremely professional reports for your clients. No other nutrition application provides the power or flexibility that NutriBase provides in this area.
The NutriBase Density View allows you to view the nutrients for, say, 100 calories of all the food items in any product group.
NutriBase lets you track up to 20 additional nutrients... nutrients that are not already tracked in NutriBase. This feature lets you customize the nutrients you monitor.
NutriBase (Clinical and higher editions) support costing... you can now tell NutriBase what you paid for each ingredient and NutriBase will tell you what the recipe and an individual serving cost you. You can store historical pricing data as well.
Locate USDA food items by searching on the Nutrient DataBank Numbers.
User-customizable Tool Bar lets you choose from up to 28 Tool Bar Icons. Choose from small, large, XP, or Internet Explorer-style icons. With or without captions. Reconfigure on the fly.
Customizable under-over comments that are automatically inserted into your intake reports (when desired).
Track and graph Body Fat Percentages as well as Body Weight. View a 3-D graph that shows you your actual weight vs. your target weight, your actual body fat vs. your target body fat, or both your body fat and body weight simultaneously.
Print a report containing all the recipes (complete with ingredient listings and instructions) for an entire Meal Plan.
NutriBase provides the entire contents of the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. NutriBase includes not only all the nutrients provided in this highly regarded database, it also includes all the data for the standard error of the means, sample counts, standard deviations, and source citations for every nutrient value for every USDA listing.
Specify your recipe serving sizes in ounces, grams, or by number of servings.
NutriBase includes an integrated Work Planner that allows you to schedule and your work schedule day-by-day.
NutriBase lets you generate printable Nutrition Facts Labels in multiple formats. Save labels as JPG, BMP. WMF, or PDF files. Automatically merge your ingredients into your reports in descending order based on gram weights of the ingredients. Generate labels that feature Trans Fat, Monounsaturated Fat, and Polyunsaturated Fat data. Edit the nutrient values that will appear in your label prior to creating the label.
Track your 24-hour activity and exercise calories separately from your 24-hour food intake. This results in a direct comparison of calories burned with calories eaten.
Users can perform global rankings across 37,000+ food items. Choose to rank the entire database, particular categories of the nutrient database, or specific subcategories of the database.
NutriBase tracks 160+ nutrient factors.
NutriBase provides Food Exchange information and generates My Pyramid Analyses for intakes.
Track the calories (and other information) provided by monitored exercise machines (like programmable treadmills or heart rate monitors) and enter in the results.
Support for Indirect Calorimeters. If you use a portable indirect calorimeter or similar device for obtaining your resting metabolic rate, you can enter that information directly into NutriBase.
NutriBase can generate CSI (Cholesterol to Saturated Fat Index) and Ratio Reports.
Clicking % Daily Value Button shows you the %DV for your recipes or meals.
A Client Information Window gives you a snapshot of how any client is doing.
Ability to batch process (automatically generate) dozens or even hundreds of custom, multi-page Initial Assessment Reports in HTML (web page) format.
Ability to batch process (automatically generate) calorie expenditure reports for dozens or even hundred of clients at once.
Ability to "batch process" (automatically generate) dozens (or even hundreds or thousands) of custom reports in ready-to-use web page format that are completely customized and ready to upload to your site.
Ability to batch process (automatically generate) dozens or even hundreds of custom, multi-page Initial Assessment Reports in word processor format.
Store Personal Food Item's (foods you've added to the database) in a tabbed PFI notebook in one of up to 26 PFI Folders (Personal Plus, Clinical, and Network editions). Organize your PFI's by type (i.e., supplements, frequently eaten foods, recipe ingredients, etc.).
Copy intakes (or parts of intakes) from any client to any another client (or clients).
Meal Folders (Personal Plus, Clinical, and Network editions) store tabbed Meal notebooks in up to 26 folders. You can now organize your Meals by type (i.e., heart-recovery, weight-loss, body-building, etc.)
Client Folders (Personal Plus, Clinical, and Network editions) allow you to organize your clients by type (i.e., obese, athletes, diabetics, or Gold's Gym, Bally's, Mountainside Gym, etc.)
Analyze groups of clients (useful for conducting studies with a number of individuals) for any time span.
Edit, format, and print intakes, recipes, and Meal Plans.
Perform in-depth recipe analyses.
Perform in-depth nutrient intake analyses for any time period.
Perform an in-depth Meal Plan analyses for any time period.
Set and track daily exercise and nutrition goals for up to thousands of clients simultaneously and independently.
Client Selection List and Client Folder Selection List (Clinical and higher editions) presented at top of screen for easy access.
Publish recipes, Meal Plans, and other NutriBase reports in HTML format for publication on the Web or in RTF format for use with popular word processors.
Import recipes, personal food items, and Meal Plans.
Add recipes, personal food items, meals, and meal plans.
Data, recipes, personal food items, and meal plans are compatible across all versions of NutriBase nutrition software (except for the NutriBase EZ Edition).
Meals - store Meals in a tabbed notebook... store your tabbed Meal notebooks in up to 26 Meal Folders (Personal Plus, Clinical, and Network editions).
Resizable food name column.
Incorporate recipes-within-recipes.
Ability to batch process (automatically generate) dozens or even hundreds of custom, multi-page Initial Assessment Reports in HTML (web page) format.
Log-on clients from a questionnaire installed on your web site. (NutriBase Clinical edition and higher.)
Determine the composition of any nutrient intake (sort all intake items based on % content of any nutrient specified).
Export nutrient data by selecting the columns of data (nutrients) you wish to include.
Rank (sort) foods from high-to-low or low-to-high based on their values for any nutrient.
Prepare Meal Plans for clients to use electronically (in any of the versions of NutriBase) or manually in the form of a custom printout they can use to track their intakes, meal-by-meal.
Copy nutrient intakes from any client to meal plan day(s).
Program Info Tracker to record and report on anything.
Download professional quality recipes and meal plans from the NutriBase Web Site.
Determine the nutrient composition of any recipe.
Rank (sort) foods from high-to-low or low-to-high based on their values for any nutrient while you are viewing them on-screen by clicking on their column headers. (Clicking again will reverse the sort-sequence.)
Backup recipes, Meal Plans, and all other client information.
Set User Preferences to customize NutriBase to work the way you prefer.
Exchange Meal Plans, recipes, and personal food items with other NutriBase users via the Internet, email, or diskette.
Daily calorie expenditure goals - adjust the default values as desired.
Harris-Benedict formula is an available option for calculating calorie requirements. (You can tweak this formula if you like.)
Add, edit, and manage an unlimited number of exercises.
Organize recipes and personal food items into tabbed notebooks, then add, delete, or rename tabs.
Updates are free. (Updates are interim releases within the current major release. For instance, version 6.02 6.03, 6.04, etc.)
Upgrades are approximately half price. (Upgrades are releases from one major version number to the next. For instance, version 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, etc.)
Create and use multiple assessment report templates.
Recipes prominently display basic nutrient information as well at the PCFA (Protein-Carbohydrate-Fat-Alcohol) Ratio.
Resize columns by dragging the right edge of column headers. NutriBase remembers the settings for you.
Resequence columns by dragging their column headers left or right.
No annual subscription fees for continued technical support and updates beyond the first year. .
Display the PCF (Protein-Carbohydrate-Fat) Ratio for all recipes, intakes, and meal plans.
Ability to export your client list for use with your email client (like MS Outlook) for mass mailings. (This is useful for sending your clients newsletters or special promotions.)
Ability to export your client's email information into a format suitable for email programs (like MS Outlook) for mass mailings to your clients.
Log on new clients, delete clients, modify existing client's goals, change active clients, generate client reports, etc.
Calorie expenditures take into consideration not only body weight, but gender, age, resting pulse, and intensity (as measured by perceived exertion or by average in-zone heart rate).
Recipe Scaling - quickly and conveniently convert your recipe for six to feed, say, 5,231 people.
Ability to instantly generate custom, multi-page assessment reports for surfers who've completed your web-based questionnaire.
Ability to instantly generate custom, multi-page Initial Assessment Reports in ready-to-post Web Page format for clients.
Ability to instantly generate custom, multi-page Initial Assessment Reports in ready-to-post Web Page format for clients.
Resizable and reposition nutrient data display.
Copy a day (or days) from any meal plan to any other meal plan day or days.
Generate a custom, in-depth Meal Plan analysis.
Spell check documents.
Program PCF (Protein-Carbohydrate-Fat) Ratio goals for every client. NutriBase displays the PCF (or CPF, at your option) Ratio for all recipes, intakes, and Meal Plans.
NutriBase nutrient data is featured in the industry's most popular series of nutritional information books (the "NutriBase Series").
No annual subscription fees to pay.
No additional charges for any of the features listed here. (Some nutrition packages charge additional fees for certain "modules" that add capability to the basic package.)
Formulas - select from several formulas to use for calorie expenditure calculations and modify them as desired.
Access 2,200+ menu items from 50+ restaurants.
Resizable food name column.
Incorporate recipes-within-recipes.
User Preferences have been expanded; features a five-tabbed notebook interface to accommodate your numerous options.
Drag-and-drop column headers to resequence the columns of data.
Auto-Insert Report Headers (text or bitmap) complete with a company logo, if desired, in your reports.
Support for Target Heart Rate Training with heart rate monitors.
Create highly customized Initial Assessment Reports for your clients with the Clinical and Network editions. Although these reports take just seconds to print, they appear to the client as if you gave up your evening to prepare a report containing 170+ client-specific facts and goals.
Use the integrated Client Contact Manager (Clinical and Network editions only) to keep track of your clients and to facilitate periodic mailings (like a monthly newsletter) to them.
Track, graph, and report on body chemistry (triglycerides, uric acid) and personal information (doctor, pharmacist).
Track, graph, and report on measurements (waist, pant size) and miscellaneous items (ovulation, cigarettes).
Create and share meal plans and recipes for any special need (diabetic, vegan), any diet plan (low-fat, high-fiber), or any organization (school lunch, nursing home).
Fitness Manager supports Target Heart Rate Training exercises... automatically calculates calorie expenditure for each client based on in-zone training time (as well as gender, age, and body weight).
Choose from the English or the Metric system.
View data in split-screen mode to view two remote areas of nutrient data on-screen simultaneously.
View data in spreadsheet format; double-click on a food for a single-screen view.
Select nutrient data rows in the nutrient data display with a simple left-mouse click. (View all nutrient information for a selected item by double-clicking on it.)
Track and graph intake in terms of % of dietary goals, % of total calories, or in terms of gms, mgs, and mcg.
Ability to parse intake items into meal and/or snack tabs as you select them and adjust serving sizes.
Multiple open windows for intakes, recipes, nutrient data, search screen, meals, meal plans, etc. NutriBase remembers size and positions for you. The larger your monitor and the higher your screen resolution, the more you can see at once.
Client notes are stored in Rich Text Format, which supports spell-checking, fonts, bold, italics, symbols, bullets, etc.)
Average Energy Allowance table is used for calculating calorie requirements for children.
Generate customized Personal Food Item reports that look precisely the way you want, then publish them in word processor or Web Page format.
Create a shopping list from recipes, intakes, or Meal Plans.
Customize your Meals to make them look any way you want, then publish them in a web page format that perfectly matches the "look and feel" of your Web Site.
Customize your recipes to make them look any way you want, then publish them in a web page format that perfectly matches the look and feel of your Web Site.
Ability to view your meals, along with their nutrient values in a spreadsheet view, then rank them from high-to-low based on any nutrient by clicking the column header. (Then reversing the sort by clicking the header again.)
Add meals to Meal Plans as Meals or as a listing of individual ingredients.
Access the largest database of brand name foods available.
Locate any food name (or partial food name) by typing it in.
Locate any brand name (or partial brand name) by typing it in.
Edit DRI's. (This is necessary since not all the nutrient values for DRI's have been established.)
Analyze function supports "analysis templates" which allow you to conveniently save and recall previous analyses when desired.
Word Processor - inserts page numbers and can print selected pages (cherry-picked or a ranges of pages). Also supports tables and saves files as text, RTF (Rich Text Format), and/or HTML (web page) formats.
Move multiple columns of nutrient data as desired.
Manage an unlimited number of clients (Clinical and higher editions ).
Create multiple text and/or bitmap headers for your reports.
Recipe Folders - organize your recipes (each with a tabbed notebook) into up to 26 folders (Personal Plus, Clinical, and Network editions). Organize your recipes by type (i.e., low-fat, low-sodium, vegan, weight-loss, etc.)
Use tabbed notebooks to organize and access recipes, personal food items, and nutrient intakes.
Recipes - add recipes to other recipes as recipes (one entry) or as a listing of the individual ingredients.
Zoom in and out of the data to show more or fewer rows and columns of data.
Edit existing meal plans to create completely new ones.
Create custom meal plans for clients or to exchange with other NutriBase users.
Stamp all Meal Plans and recipes with your byline (up to 80 characters) before distributing them.
Edit, format and/or print a report containing the foods, serving sizes and nutrients you plan to eat or recommend.
Display the CPF (Carbohydrate-Protein-Fat) Ratio for all recipes, intakes, and meal plans.
Access Research Quality Nutrient Database food items consisting of data from the United States Department of Agriculture and the Canadian Nutrient Files. The research quality nutrient database also includes medical nutritionals (enteral and parenteral - oral, tube feed, and nutrient injections).
Print routines for printing raw data from screen (print preview, print, copy to clipboard, export, resize, etc.)
NutriBase will auto-select RDA's, DRI's, or Canadian RNI's appropriate by gender and age.
Auto-Select 1/3 RDA's, 1/3 DRI's, or 1/3 Canadian RNI's appropriate by gender and age.
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 the header again.)
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.
The software will auto-record a list of foods that you want to automatically record each time you record any food item for the client.
Ability to generate custom reports in ready-to-use HTML web page format that are laid out exactly like you specify.
Create, edit, save and retrieve workouts.
Recipe - Instructions are in Rich Text Format (spell-checker, fonts, bold, italics, symbols, bullets, etc.)
Shopping List is in Rich Text Format (spell-checker, fonts, bold, italics, symbols, bullets, etc.)
Conduct simple or rigorous queries (Boolean AND searches) on the nutrient data.
Search Icon provides an eight-tabbed notebook interface to search by Food Name, Brand Name, Personal Food Item, Recipe (by name or ingredient), or Meal (by name or ingredient) or to perform the View, Rank, or Query Functions.
Auto-Convert serving sizes and units. NutriBase understands yoru serving sizes whether you enter them in fractions ("1-2/3", "2 15/16", etc.) or decimals ("1.5", "2.67", etc.)
Export analyses into a spreadsheet-compatible format (Clinical and Network editions) for post-study analysis.
Toll Free Technical Support at 877-945-0315 (M-F, 9-5, Arizona time). Technical support is provided for the current product and for the previous edition of product.
Save any report in text, word processor or web page format.
Generate customized Meal reports that look precisely the way you want, then publish them in word processor format.
Generate customized recipe reports that look precisely the way you want, then publish them in word processor format. You can now publish a word processor formatted cookbook from NutriBase!
The larger your monitor, the better... NutriBase loves high screen resolutions (for displaying multiple open windows). NutriBase is also very comfortable with multiple monitors on a single PC.
PCF Ratio goals - Adjust the default settings for % calories from Protein, Carbohydrates, and Fat.
Set "thumbs up" criteria to trigger when clients achieve pre-set daily exercise and/or dietary goals.
Customize up to five Training Heart Rate Zones (define Zone Name, min and max zone ranges, and primary benefit).
NutriBase supports Meals - an organizational unit called that serve as the modular building blocks for Meal Plans.
Set alarms to trigger when clients exceed any nutrient limit(s) you program for them.
Graph results with over a dozen types of 2-D or 3-D charts.
Use the integrated word processor to edit, format, spell check and save preformatted reports or to create a them from scratch.
The Features Comparison Chart shows how NutriBase compares with the industry's most comparable products.
The Unique Features Chart shows you the features of NutriBase that we believe are unique to NutriBase.
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NutriBase Nutrition Software was specifically designed to meet the needs of professional users (dietitians, nutritionists, fitness trainers, physicians, etc.). If your primary interest is in software for personal or family use, please visit the NutriBase Consumer Nutrition Software Web Site at www.dietsoftware.com. The following is an overview of NutriBase Professional Software capabilities.
