Name
Snack: Learning Software For Nutrition
Release
1680
Purpose
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 user-friendly software application that calculates the nutritional value of food mixtures.
It is also a meal design tool and calculator that could facilitate achieving your health goals and objectives by first helping you understand your food intake and second by allowing you to create new food combinations that meet specific dietary requirements.
It is also a training program designed to find food combinations that maximize the life stage specific Total Nutrient Index (TNI) score. It lets you inexpensively experiment to get faster and better results so you can rapidly learn and improve.
Its intended audience is anyone with interest in nutrition.
We would like to invite all nutrition scientists, registered dietitians and nutrition / food / animal science students and food producers to use the application and share their insight.
Features
- Minimize both Daily Reference Intake (DRI) deficiency and the Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) excess
- Calculate Total Nutrient Index (TNI) score
- Quantify and summarize food intake
- Track important nutrients that have an impact on health
- Search for food sources of specific nutrients
- Keep a food journal and track progress
- Compare two foods or meals to see difference in nutritional value
- Compare meals against life stage specific dietary reference intake (DRI) values
- Compare meals against life stage specific upper limit (UL) values
- Create nutritional reports
- Quantify and summarize any popular diet plan for comparison and research purposes
- Calculate basal metabolic rate (BMR)
- Check glycemic index range
- Calculate macronutrient energy percentages and nutrient ratios
- Calculate food quotient (FQ)
- Convert percent daily value (%DV) of a nutrient to grams
- Exchange mix, food and meal plan data easily through simple text document (xml)
- Easily generate reports and export them to text file (csv)
- Generate linear programming model for lpsolve solver
- Generate linear programming source code in java, c, rust and R
- Facilitate learning/teaching anyone with interest in nutrition
- Create food demand forecasts
- Is free and open source
Author
- Jorge Rolando Garcia de Alba
- jorge.r.garciadealba@gmail.com
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