Snack: Diet Calculator and Meal Design Software

Summary

Snack’s ultimate purpose is to empower its users to make better nutrition decisions that will improve their diet, nutrition, health and quality of life.

  • It is a diet calculator and meal design software used for understanding a person’s food intake.

  • It is a software program designed to maximize the Total Nutrient Index, a useful construct to assess total micronutrient exposures of underconsumed micronutrients among US adults.

  • It lets user quickly, inexpensively and easily experiment creating different food combinations that have specific dietary requirements.

  • Its intended audience is anyone with interest in nutrition.

  • Snack is now available to the whole world (7.674 billion people or 7674 million people).

  • Software can be downloaded and used for no money although author considers it priceless.

  • Nutrition scientists, registered dietitians and nutrition / food / animal science students and food producers are especially invited to use it and share their insight

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