NUT, the Nutritional Analysis Tool, is a program for recording food consumption and examining the nutritional composition of meals. It uses food composition information from the USDA Nutrient Database to help users understand their dietary intake.
The program provides a menu-driven console interface, allowing meals to be entered and analysed without requiring users to learn a collection of command-line operations. Its emphasis is on examining nutritional information rather than simply counting calories.
NUT is particularly useful for investigating dietary patterns over time. Users can compare nutrient intake with configured targets, examine the contribution of individual foods and experiment with different proportions of carbohydrates, fats and protein. Its detailed analysis includes essential fatty acids that are often omitted from simpler food diaries.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Record daily meals and individual foods consumed.
- Analyse energy intake, macronutrients, vitamins, minerals and other dietary components.
- Uses USDA food composition information as its nutritional reference.
- Provides a menu-driven console interface for data entry and analysis.
- Supports configurable dietary plans, including low-carbohydrate and low-fat approaches.
- Allows between one and nineteen meals to be configured per day.
- Examines nutrient intake over multiple consecutive meals.
- Displays nutrient totals and percentages relative to dietary targets.
- Includes analysis of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.
- Supports food searches and selection from the nutrient database.
- Records frequently used recipes and customary meals to simplify data entry.
- Identifies foods that make significant contributions to individual nutrient totals.
- Sorts foods according to their content of particular nutrients.
- Generates graphs showing changes in dietary intake over time.
- Supports separate nutritional records for different users.
- Offers food suggestions and planning tools based on dietary targets.
- Allows measurements to be entered using grams or ounces.
Website: nut.sourceforge.net
Support:
Developer: Jim Jozwiak
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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