FoodWorks

WHAT'S NEW IN FOODWORKS 14.0? (since FoodWorks 9.0)

NEW EXPANDED NUTRIENT DATA - FoodWorks 14 has been updated to contain the USDA Standard Reference version 24. The NHANES Food and Nutrition Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) is included in the FoodWorks database. In a new addition, the Canadian Nutrient File 2007b is included. Also, nutrient data for fast food menu items have been added for seven popular restaurants based on data supplied by those restaurants (including the newly-added Tim Horton's). FoodWorks users can choose to include or exclude any of six source databases when searching for foods to include in an analysis. The addition of new data brings the total available food references to more than 39,000. Entries from each database are tagged with a prefix identifying the source database making food selection easier.

THE “FREQUENTLY USED FOODS” LIST – This new feature “remembers” foods you have chosen before. If you search for a food and your search results include a food you have chosen before, that food will be displayed in a special list, making it easy to find foods you use often. You can delete foods from the list, and you can erase the list and start over at any time.

NUTRIENT PREVIEW WHEN SELECTING FOODS – This new feature shows you a preview of the nutrient amounts found in a food you are selecting. The preview is sensitive to the portion you choose, so the nutrient values vary to match the portion. This allows you to make decisions about portion sizes based on nutrient content – a valuable tool to menu and recipe analysts.

RECIPE EXPORT FUNCTION – The “Export” function now has a new tool that allows you to copy and paste a recipe directly from FoodWorks into your word processor in one step. The recipe’s name, procedure, and ingredients are presented together making it easier than ever to copy the information and format it to your exact specifications in your word processor.

NUTRITION FACT LABEL ENHANCMENTS – Several new enhancements have been added to the Nutrition Facts label processor. You can now turn off the food name that appears above the label on printouts so that you can print your label to a narrow-format label printer without overrun. You can also opt to print a list of ingredients in descending order of weight. The ingredient list will appear immediately below your label.

“SHOW ME” WALK-THROUGH TUTORIALS – FoodWorks has always been known for its user friendliness. And now, users can learn to do important tasks more easily than ever by using the new “ShowMe” walk-throughs. ShowMe is part of the Help menu. Just pick a topic from the ShowMe sub-menu and get step-by-step instructions for performing a task. In addition, all of the standard help topics are available to provide all the information you need.

FOODMATE – FoodMate is a companion program to FoodWorks that your clients can use. It comes with your FoodWorks software. FoodMate allows your clients to create their own diet recalls and multiple day records and submit them to you for evaluation. Simply provide your client with a copy of FoodMate (by any of several easy means). Once FoodMate is installed on the client’s computer, the client can select foods to include in a recall just like you do with FoodWorks. When the recall is done, the client can bring it to you or send it to you as an email attachment. If you have clients who are computer users, FoodMate can be a real time-saver.

ANALYSIS QUICK REFERENCE - This inset window displays an "analysis at a glance" for seven nutrients that you specify. When it is open, the display updates automatically every time a change in the analysis occurs. This means that you can see "real time" changes in the analysis results as you add foods, change analysis modes, or modify personal data.

“MIFFLIN-ST. JEOR” BASAL METABOLISM FORMULA – Newly added to FoodWorks, the Mifflin-St. Jeor formula uses height, weight, age, and gender data to calculate metabolic needs. It is one of the best predictors of BMR.

“CONFIGURE” MENU – Requested by our “broad spectrum” users who often need to switch between analyzing a recipe and analyzing a dietary record, the “Configure” menu is a quick way to switch settings for a new task. It also allows you to reset FoodWorks to the original settings if you want to set up a custom analysis from scratch.

FIND IN MY FOOD LIST – Most users who are analyzing a recipe or a single day recall can quickly spot a food they’ve selected for analysis in a short list – say 30 items or less. But if you’ve created a large food list for a cycle menu or for research purposes, finding a food in your food list may not be so easy. The “Find” function comes to the rescue. Simply right-click any food in your food list (on the Food List display) and choose “Find in my food list” from the pop-up menu. Then enter a search word or phrase and FoodWorks will locate the first match in your food list. Continue to click "Find" and you’ll quickly cycle through all of the foods that match your search.

NEW FLEXIBLE USER DATABASE - FoodWorks users now can easily share information with each other and use data from external sources. This feature allows you to send food data to other FoodWorks 14 users, manage your user database better, import data from other sources, and export your user database for use in other applications.

SHARE USER-ADDED FOODS WITH COLLEAGUES VIA FOOD LIST FILES - When you save an analysis project in a file and then open the file on a different computer that is also running FoodWorks 14, that computer's user database will automatically be updated with any user database foods from your computer that are in the file. This means that you can share user-added foods with colleagues by simply sending them a food list file, even as an email attachment.

IMPORT FOODS FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES INTO THE USER DATABASE - One of the biggest obstacles in using nutrient analysis software is that there is no formal standard for nutrient data formatting. As a result, there has never been a standard method for interchanging food data between programs. You may have external sources of data that you may want to use in your analyses. Normally, you would have to enter these foods into your nutrient analysis software by hand. Not with FoodWorks 14. It can import external data as long as it is in the form of a spreadsheet and formatted in a way that FoodWorks 14 can understand. Most nutrient data spreadsheets can be modified easily to a form that FoodWorks 14 can import.

EXPORT THE CONTENTS OF YOUR USER DATABASE - The FoodWorks “Export” menu contains a new feature. You can export the entire contents of your user database to file that can be opened by spreadsheet processors (such as Excel) and statistical software. This is useful if you wish to use that data outside of FoodWorks. Additionally, the data is exported in the format that FoodWorks 14 uses for import. So other FoodWorks 14 users can import your user database into their programs. This is a tremendous step forward in data sharing.

MACINTOSH KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS - With the growing use of FoodWorks on Macintosh computers (that are running Windows emulation software, such as CrossOver Mac, VirtualPC, Boot Camp, or Fusion), keyboard shortcuts have been added for all "right click" functions. Both Mac OS and Windows users can take advantage of these efficient shortcuts

In addition to these changes, many internal efficiencies have been added to FoodWorks version 14. Changes include updates to take advantage of current technology capabilities as well as more powerful input evaluation. One particularly important change enhances FoodWorks' interaction with security functions on local area networks. Network usage requires unlimited licensing. For more information, contact Support at 908-876-5580 or email to nutrico@mindspring.com.