Nutrition Log FAQ

THIS NURITON SOFTWARE IS BETA!  Always exercise caution in any interpretation.  There WILL be bugs in this software for a week or so.  PLEASE check our math in the totals and reports/graphs for main nutrient items that have values associated with them.  Several things simply WILL NOT add up, details at the end.  Also these foods will not ‘exactly’ match what’s on a real nutrition label due to rounding, lots, manufacturer, year, etc.  But they are reasonably close based on the foods we tested from our fridges and pantry.  You will also note that these numbers will not exactly line-up with other nutrition dbases due to different dbase version, sources, and the aforementioned issues.

*I will try to get real instructions in an article format with pictures and how-to's out in a few weeks.

Free users:

• Able to log nutrition from foods in the dbase.
• Access to Calendar, Week, Month, Year Reports for calories, protein, carbohydrate and fats.
• Access to a ‘stacker’ graph for calories from: protein, carbohydrate and fats.

Bronze+

• Save a bunch of foods as a meal for easy choosing later
• Create a custom food/meal.
• Access advanced reports from nutrition label and from the linked dates in the week, month, and year reports.  An advanced report means ALL nutrients are reported, not just the ones listed on the label.
• Toggle additional nutrients to follow in reports from your training setting area.
• Two more graphs, a pie graph of caloric breakdown and % plus a graph of any nutrient in the dbase.
• You can track water consumption.  This is a combination of water in the foods you log and water you log as drinking water.

All the following is directly from the USDA dbase FAQ.

About the Dbase. 

The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR) is the major source of food composition data in the United States. It provides the foundation for most food composition databases in the public and private sectors. As information is updated, new versions of the database are released. This version, Release 18 (SR18), contains data on 7,146 food items and up to 136 food components.

The dbase we are using has the 7,146 foods.  NOT ALL of them have complete nutrient profiles.  ‘N/A’ is seen when this value is not reported.  For BT logs in daily, weekly, monthly and yearly summed reports, ‘N/A’ is treated as a ‘0’ so everything most likely will not add-up perfectly (example, individual amino acids adding up to the amount of protein….some foods lack the amino acid compositional breakdown.)

Carbohydrate Calculation Assumptions
Because the analyses of total dietary fiber, total sugars, and starch are performed separately, the sum of these carbohydrate fractions may not add up to the carbohydrate-by-difference value.

Fat Calculations Assumptions

Values for total saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids may include

individual fatty acids not reported; therefore, the sum of their values may exceed the sum of the individual fatty acids. In rare cases, the sum of the individual fatty acids may exceed the sum of the values given for the total saturated fatty acids (SFA), monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA), and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). These differences are generally caused by rounding and may be relatively small.

Zero values for individual fatty acids should be understood to mean that trace amounts may be present. When g fatty acids per 100 g of total lipid were converted to g fatty acids per 100 g of food, values of less than 0.0005 were rounded to 0.

Protein Calculations and Assumptions
The individual amino acids for a food may not add up to the amount of protein in that food.  Not all foods will have an amino-acid breakdown.

MANY THANKS TO marmadaddy...he tested many of the features, caught several bugs and found many things we never even thought of.