Re: best tracking software?

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Hi :

My only contribution on this topic is that a major selection

criterion should be that the results it gives are accurate.

To determine this you need, I think, to take a few foods, ask the

software for a comprehensive nutrient analysis for each, and then do

the work by hand from the USDA data and make sure they agree.

At least one well known nutrient tracking program (NOT Walford's)

yields two quite different sets of numbers for exactly the same

quantity of exactly the same food, in two different parts of their

website. Difficult to know which is correct. If either.

Of course the USDA data is far from being complete and totally

accurate. Last time I checked, it thought kale contained zero

vitamin K. The reason is that no one has submitted a number for kale

for that nutrient, so it is assumed to contain none. In fact it is

probably the best of all sources. Also, for potatoes, as an example,

they have a single set of data for units of potatoes measured in both

grams and cups. But, based on the amounts of grams and cups

indicated, potatoes ought to float quite high in the water. So to

which of the two quantities do the nutrient data refer? Again, if

either.

I informed them about this a long time ago, and last time I looked

the error had not been rectified. They did not even acknowledge to

my email.

If anyone knows of a species of potato that floats, please tell us

about it.

Rodney.

> I'm admit to being a tad bewildered by the array of

> nutrition-tracking

> software available, based on a search of the group's archives and a

> general Web trawl. Does anyone have any suggestions -- my goal is

not

> weight loss but just a general CRON regimen. I have the trial

> versions

> of Dr Walford's product and DietPower, but there are still dozens

of

> others that claim to do the same thing.

>

> Cheers/