NutriCook Recipe Nutrition Calculator Software Easy and Complete Nutrition for Any Recipe or Food

Know any recipe’s nutrition today! With NutriCook software for PCs,.just enter your recipe and within minutes you will know complete nutrition for each serving.

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Inaccurate software program
I purchased this program directly from the manufacturer, Chefnology Software. I put in two recipes and immediately noticed errors. The most obvious was that the software had Splenda (no calorie sweetener) as having calories (23 calories in two little packets)!!! I needed an accurate program for my husband’s restricted diet, and this is not the program for that. If you are looking for accuracy, don’t buy this program. (Chefnology Software apologized and gave me a full refund.)

5 Stars Response from Chefnology re “Inaccurate software program” review
At Chefnology, we base our information on the most trustworthy source we can find, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. The erroneous data value for Splenda came directly from this database, release SR18. Therefore, one can assume any program that uses the USDA database as reference would have also had this error. We have further verified the nutritional calculations extensively using several professional texts (including Professional Cooking by Giisslen, a book used by professional cooking schools and chefs, that comes with nutrition software included) and in every case the results agreed.

When Julie initially contacted us we thanked her for alerting us to this and apologized for any issues this incorrect value may have caused, explaining that we can only be as accurate as the data we have been provided. We further explained that though we check through the information for accuracy and user friendly naming, being a small company we rely on our customers to let us know when a discrepancy may have been missed so we can research it, make the correction and issue an update or notice. The only specific problem that Julie was able to point out to us was the incorrect calorie value for Splenda. Thanks to her contacting us, this issue has been corrected in the current release. We asked her for details of the other “errors” but she did not provide any. As it is an easy procedure to correct this one database entry, or to add a new item for Splenda with the correct values, we offered Julie a way to correct the problem in her program while awaiting the update. Julie chose instead to ask for a refund, which we provided without hesitation. This being the case, we do not feel she really gave the product a full evaluation before giving this feedback.

Chefnology is a unique company in that we are not a large corporation nor are we backed by one. Every person who works for us is also a user of the product as are their family and friends. We feel that this enables us to make our product be the most comprehensive and complete for the average person as well as the many food professionals who have purchased and use our product on a daily basis. We value our customers and will when needed, work closely with individuals to make sure they are getting the most from the program, even adding features that are requested, such as Label Making. We ask that if you are considering purchasing NutriCook, that you make the evaluation yourself, we are confident that you will agree with our many satisfied customers that this is a valuable program delivering exactly what is promised.

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Diet Power Personal Weight and Diet Software

Of all the weight loss programs on the market today, only Diet Power guarantees reaching your goal weight on your target date. Our award-winning diet software makes any diet more powerful by helping you control what all diet plans have in common: calories. Our software also balances your intake of 33 vitamins and minerals by recommending foods you like. This extraordinary degree of personalization is one reason weight watchers rate our calorie counter and diet program the world’s best.

Besides Counting Calories, our diet software shows nutrition facts for 11,000 foods, plans menus, tracks calories burned in exercise, charts body measurements, “doctors” recipes for healthy weight loss, delivers personalized nutrition news and features, lets you meet weight watchers online, and more…

“A godsend.”
-Fitness

“Turns your PC into a nutrition counselor.”
-Wall Street Journal

“I’ve lost 65 pounds with Diet Power. Now I recommend it to my patients.”
-Paul Huser, M.D.

“The only diet software proven effective in weight loss.”
-Runner’s World

“Diet Power is the best way to lose weight I’ve ever seen.”
-Consumer Electronics

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Great program and super easy to use
I love this program! I have also used FitDay which is a very good program, but not as good as Diet Power. Diet Power has the Water Minder and Nutrition Quotient which are great! The Diet Power website also has some great help files, but I didn’t need very many because the program is pretty self-explanatory.

I have lost almost 40 pounds in 6 months, but I also plan on using this program after I meet my goal so that I can learn what I need to do to maintain my weight and eat and exercise properly. It only takes about a total of 5 minutes a day to enter your food intake and exercise, so I don’t think that is too much to ask for having a healthy weight.

3 Stars Not for Weight Watcher’s but has some good features
I downloaded the trial version because they said on their website that it worked with the Weight Watcher’s diet and many other diets. When you fill in your profile, it has a place to mark which diet you are using, but that is about as far as that goes. There is no way to add point values to food, therefore no way to track your points. So it was useless for my particular needs.

However, out of all the programs I have tried, it was the easiest to start using. They have easy to follow videos on their website to help you get started. I also liked that it tells you when you are low or high in a certain nutrient (compared to the RDA). It would have helped track my chronically low magnesium, iron, and vitamin A.

If you want software to track your calorie and nutrient intake and suggest your daily calorie budget, I think this would work really well. It does not, however, do all they suggest.

5 Stars Diet Power WORKS as long as you do
I have been using Diet Power on and off for the last 3 years. The first time I used it I dropped 50 pounds in about 6 months but it was NOT EASY. It takes discipline and lots of working out. I am not by nature a disciplined person, so it took some getting used to. Truth be told, I gained it all back because I stopped using Diet Power and got into old habits. I am now working on losing it again, and am down 15 pounds over three weeks.

Diet Power does not do the work for you, and the information you get from it is only as good as the information you provide. It calculates your Metabolic Rate (which is also the number of calories you must consume to maintain your current weight). It then provides you with a calorie budget that is well below your metabolic rate. As long as you log your food faithfully and honestly and stay within your calorie budget YOU WILL LOSE weight. It is based on scientific fact.

I will admit the program takes some getting used to, and if you plan to use it seriously, invest in a food scale, because you need to be very precise. What I like about it is that it doesn’t judge and it doesn’t restrict any food.

While in a sense you can “Eat anything you want” you do need to stay within your daily calorie budget. You will quickly realize however that while you CAN eat ice cream for example, if you do, you will use up your calorie budget VERY fast. But if you have a sweet tooth and cant live without a scoop of Ice Cream, GO FOR IT! It won’t kill you and as long as you stay within your budget, again, YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT!

Its not a miracle. Its not a gimmick. Diet Power works, but you have to do the heavy lifting.

2 Stars Not That Good
A very complicated program and does not work well for someone who is a vegetarian vegan. Received a CD only, not even in a box. No instruction book. I feel I wasted my money. Have not figured out the program and have given up. Bite the bullet in this purchase. Do not recommend.

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ShopNCook Menu for Windows and Mac

Shop’NCook Menu is two applications in one, a meal planner and a shopping list manager working seamlessly together to facilitate your grocery shopping and cooking. Recipes are easily added by typing them in, pasting them from the clipboard, or importing directly from the internet: no formatting is necessary. The smart wizard interprets the recipes, links them to the database of grocery items or to other recipes and yields an accurate nutritional analysis without user’s intervention. You organize your recipes by categories and in cookbooks that you can share with anyone with the free Shop’NCook Reader software. A powerful scaling tool lets you scale the ingredients and the text of your recipes, make ingredient substitutions and unit conversions. You plan your meals by dragging recipes on days of a calendar: the recipes are automatically scaled to match the number of servings of the meal. A day can be divided in as many meals as you wish. You can add selectively to the shopping list the ingredients for several days or weeks of meals at a time with a single click of the mouse. The ingredient quantities are aggregated and converted to your preferred shopping units. Contrary to most cooking software, grocery lists can also be created by directly selecting items of the database, adding from sublists or just typing in new items. Other features: fully customizable database of more than 2000 grocery items with nutritional data for more than 40 nutrients; recipe import in several popular formats (scx, mm, mxp, mx2 and plain text); pictures can be added to recipes; nutrition scripts to control the display of nutritional information and compute custom nutritional formulas; e-mail tool to send recipes and shopping lists; direct access to an online recipe database where Shop’NCook users share their recipes. The CD contains the installers for Windows and Mac OS X platforms. The installers include three cookbooks totaling about 1000 recipes.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Great Cooking and Shopping Aid
I’ve only had this software for about a month, but so far I’m finding it VERY useful. You can add your own recipes or get recipes from their extensive online database. It will also allow you to import recipes from other programs.

The two things I have found most useful are the shopping list and nutritional analysis features. My husband is diabetic, so we have to count carbs, and this program allows me to put in my own recipes and calculates the nutritional information for the recipes. The nutritional analysis is based on information from the USDA National Nutrient Database, and the program also lets you add your own items in (this is useful if you want to add something like a pre-made pasta sauce for example). While it is possible to find a lot of this nutional information online for free (at the USDA website or calorieking.com), that can be a real hassle because you have to look up each ingredient and manually make the calculation, where this program does the calculations for you once you enter in the ingredients. In addition to the standard nutrients (fat, calories, protein, carbs, etc…), this program will give you a full analysis including various vitamins, caffeine, and phytosterols. You can also customize what nutritional information is displayed if you are only interested in certain ones.

The Shopping List feature is awesome. You can basically add all of your recipes for the week to the shopping list, and it will create a list of all the items you need sorted by store aisle/section – this is a HUGE time saver!

My only 2 complaints about the software are:

(1) It seems you have to enter the ingredients quantities under the recipe and then again under the “ingredients” tab (which it uses for the nutritional analysis). When you add the items in the “ingredients” list, they show up on the “recipe” page as well, but their quantities show up blank and then you have to re-enter them (or usually I just leave them blank, but this could be a nuisance if you were wanting to share the recipe with others….)

(2) The graphical user-interface for the program is a bit clunky. It is functional, but it certainly isn’t nice to look at it, and is not necessarily intuitive. However, the help files are good, and it doesn’t take too long to figure out how things work. I also like the fact that so many things in the program are customizable.

Overall, the program is definitely worth the money just for the shopping list and nutritional analysis features alone. I haven’t actually tried using any of the recipes that come with the program yet, but some of them look like they’d be good.

5 Stars The BEST Recipe Software for MAC — It does it all!!
I have researched and downloaded many recipe programs but they were missing some part I needed or were just not comfortable to use. I finally ran across Shop’NCook Menu and it is GREAT! You can just record recipes and create shopping lists OR you can have it handle it all!!! AND it is fun to use. You can create cookbooks, add photos if you want, you can copy recipes from places like the Food Network and paste into the program and it puts everything in place for you like magic. YOU CAN ALSO IMPORT recipes you have from Meal-Master, MasterCook and other popular formats It automatically calculates nutritional information for each recipe you enter. You can search, create/print recipes, create menus (there is a calendar built in to help you) and aisle-by-aisle shopping lists. It has the ability to scale down your recipes. You can even download over 1,000 recipes into the program from their website. Best part is that it only cost $59.95. It is a bargain. Also, did I mention that you can export shopping lists to SplashShopper format for use in your PDA so you can take your lists to the store as printed sheets or in your Palm.

They offer 3 versions — Shop’NCook HOME, Shop’NCook MENU and Shop’NCook PRO which is for foodservice operations and has extra functions for calculating the cost of food preparation.

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The Fitness Expert Fitness Training Software

The Fitness Expert is a revolution in personal training. Developed by industry professionals, The Fitness Expert uses targeted methods & sound advice to help you get stronger & meet your goals. Based on our Professional Edition used by Personal Trainers, let The Fitness Expert guide your workout program & tell you how you are improving.

It will . . . Plan & Track Your Workout Schedule . . . Demonstrate Video for Every Exercise . . . Generate Routines Specifically Targeted to Meet Your Goals . . . Evaluate Your Fitness Level . . . View Videos to Learn Tips that Enhance your Results.

We have many references that provide you with the same type of information as a personal trainer. It includes over 100 Activities & over 440 Exercises. View over 30 minutes of informative video clips on fitness, exercise & anatomy topics.

Our workout generator allows you to create a professional quality workout. Customize the workout based upon a specific sport, activity, body region, available equipment & fitness level.

MAIN SCREEN . . . The main screen has all the program options clearly visible. Just push a button for what you want to do. There are no complicated menus, so it is very easy to operate.

WORKOUTS . . . Create a customized workout designed to strengthen for any of the 100 sports or activities in our database. Workouts are based on your preferences, fitness level, & available equipment.
EXERCISES . . . View the details of any of the 440 exercises in our database. Each exercise has easy-to-follow instructions, a demonstration video, key points to consider, & more information. Exercises use from none to a variety of equipment, such as barbells, flexible bands, stability ball, gym machines, Bowflex machines & more.
CARDS & REPORTS . . . Print Exercise & Workout Cards to use when exercising. Producing a comprehensive report is as easy as selecting the start & end dates. Reports show improvement, workout statistics, calories used & measurement changes.

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Deluxe Weight Watchers Light and Tasty

From the leading name in sensible eating, Deluxe Weight Watchers Light and Tasty serves up a bounty of recipes from ten of its best-selling cookbooks. So whether you’re planning a summer barbecue for friends or an impromptu dinner for two, find delicious choices right at your fingertips.

Features: includes 2,250 light, low-fat recipes. Analyze any recipe for nutrional values. Add your own recipes. Adjust recipes to any serving size, substitute ingredients, make instant shipping lists, and more.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars It’s awesome
I love this software. Easy to use and every single recipe is delicious and is made using mostly what I already had on hand. My family doesn’t know that I am serving them healthy food.

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