Add Food Function Help

In order to add a food item to your Personal Diet List (PDL), click the mouse in the white box above the PDL and type in the name of the food you wish to add. Then hit enter or click on Add Food.

The Nutirent Analysis Tool now searches its extensive database. NAT will return a list of all the food items that match the word or words you typed in.

Helpful Hints

The USDA database has nearly any food that you can possibly think of, but sometimes it has the food listed under a different name or phrase than you might expect. If you have trouble finding a particular food try thinking of other words that mean the same thing.

• start general; but if too many foods are matched, go back and get more specific
  • chicken (225 items matched)
  • ckicken leg (9 items matched)
  • chicken leg fried (3 items matched)
• try a different word or phrase
  • coke (will not match)
  • carbonated beverage (will match)
• some foods are entered as verbs rather than nouns
  • french fries (will not match)
  • french fried (will match)
• other foods are enterd as pural not singular
  • jelly (will not match)
  • jellies (will match)
• some commercial names are not in database
  • McDonalds or Tyson (will not match)
  • Cheerios (will match)