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Nutrition Analysis Software is developed for the modern Dietitian, Nutritionist, and Health Care Professional where they can stay connected to each of their patients. And it also includes a free custom branded mobile app for nutrition professional and for patients.

Typically, we had to search thoroughly through and cross-reference hard copy food composition tables, a food atlas, documents outlining population health targets and nutrient reference value tables as the resources when analyzing or recommending diets or working through nutrient composition for recipes, meals, and menus.

As with most disciplines, with the times and the technological advances, Nutrition and Dietetics have moved and that has come with them. One of the main advantages of this is the development of nutrition analysis software – software that has been developed specifically for the field of Nutrition to enhance, automate and make time-consuming analysis more efficient.

Most dietitians, nutritionist and health care professionals will find that a nutrition analysis software package is irreplaceable to their business and allows them to run an effective and efficient practice. A good software package should allow you to grow and manage your business efficiently including:

1. Calculate the calorie intakes of individuals or groups for one meal, one day, one week, or more. A number of mealtimes per day can be scheduled as well as a number of days for a diet program.

2. Automatically calculate the complete calorie and macronutrient content of recipes. Check that there is provision for calorie breakdown for individual ingredients if you'd like to adjust the calorie content of your recipe for weight loss or gain on cooking, allowance for nutrient losses, values for less common nutrients. Accurate conversion from imperial to metric units, volume to weight, and household measures to weight.

3. Evaluate a complete meal plan. Ensure you can schedule diet for all days that you need for the diet program, including courses and menu options and the program will allow you to compare results to the standards that you need. Meals are commonly analyzed by averaging the meal items offered by the number of clients. There is the algorithm/method available that will calculate the true nutrient mean.

4. Identify habitual eating patterns for research purposes. All the required foods should be in the database for the experiment for complete perfection.


Relevant, reliable and up-to-date Food Composition Data :

Ensure the food composition data that is appropriate for your geographic region is included in your chosen software. Relevant, reliable and up-to-date food composition data are of fundamental importance in nutrition, dietetics, and health, but also for other disciplines. Check for supplementary versions of food composition datasets for access to complex nutrient sets like fatty acids and amino acids - key parameters in food quality assessment. Check for brand/ manufacturers data, information on foods for special medical purposes used for clinical feeds and food supplements.

Using a cloud-based system will ensure you are offered automatic updates to the latest versions of data sets, bringing new features, food databases, and guidelines as soon as they become available. This means this means you are always using the best available data sources, and not using out of date information between software update cycles, as is the case with traditional (non-cloud) nutrition programs. However, be sure to get confirmation from your software provider that your existing data will not get over-written when updates occur (unless you acknowledge and request the update). Also, your software provider should come up with cloud-based security solutions to ensure that a customer's information and data are secure.


Significant supplementary information :

Nutrition analysis software links food portion size information, population dietary reference values and nutrient calculations, that are essential to nutrition and dietetic practice, to the food or the individual as appropriate. This allows a once previously time consuming and manual process to prompted, automated process.

- Client Connectivity :
Easy generation of reports, ways to communicate with your client when training them online or in-person via email or push notifications on mobile are becoming preferable ways to provide support and feedback. Bridge the gap between health care professional and client – studies show targeted messages supported by automation workflows via digital technology can improve commitment to dietary guidelines.

- Digital Supremacy :
A software package that not only supports you to do your practice more effectively but one that also supports your patient/client to track the data you need more accurately and in a way that can be synced to your analysis software is the benchmark.


Accurate Recipe Calorie and Nutrition Calculation :

It is important to accommodate for changes that occur in food following cooking or processing. Vitamins and minerals are responsive to varying degrees of degradation during cooking. Weight changes occur through both loss and gain of water or oil. These will have a huge impact on your per 100g and per serving nutritional values. It is important that the software you choose can hold these complex changes to calorie and nutrition information.

Security, Adaptability and Administrative Support :

A high level of security should be offered by your software provider to ensure that a customer's information and data are secure. In advance of choosing your software, request information on the level of security provided. At a minimum, software should use encryption technology and data should be hosted on accredited, dedicated servers. You should be satisfied that your provider takes security very seriously before you choose to use them. The web-based software offers many advantages over locally installed software. The local software may feel like it is more secure than web-based software but this isn’t the case anymore. The local software requires installation, management, and frequent data backup. The web-based software is automatically backed up and updated as required and modern encryption technology makes the most online software even more secure than local software, choosing the right software can make complying with your obligations under GDPR compliance easy. The added benefit for a busy professional is unrestricted access to the software from any device in any location.


Professional Support :

Support and after sale service is essential to the service provided by your software. Access to online learning, topic-specific courses, and guidance on usability and the best ways to use the program are signs of a software service that care. Use these resources, running a business isn’t easy – make your service providers work for you.

At SimplyLoose we offer a comprehensive nutrition analysis software - IoT based platform that can be customized to meet your brand requirements. SimplyLoose is easy to use, cloud-based and offers the most comprehensive set of food reference databases available. Deliver client performance reports and statics with easy storage of client personal, clinical and dietary information. Generate evidence-based reports using the latest national and international dietary guidelines. Stay connected on the go, access your account from any device securely and reliably. SimplyLoose is a simple yet powerful solution that is built to grow and manage your business. Manage your business efficiently, engage with customers to offer them an elite experience, or expand your visibility online. Streamline your business with a powerful platform that minimizes administrative hassles, increases efficiency & member retention, and helps both dietitian, nutritionist, health care professionals and their clients to achieve fitness and weight loss goals through the SimplyLoose Platform. For more information contact at info@simplyloose.com

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