Notice anything new?
Our latest upgrade has just gone live, with lots of new goodies for you! If your page is looking funny today, it may just be that your cached pages haven't yet caught up with the new versions. Refreshing your browser (by clicking F5 on a PC) should resolve most problems. If you know how to "clear your cache" that also sometimes helps clear up particularly sticky issues.
What's new?
The first major upgrade is in direct response to your requests: When adding foods to My Tracking (formerly, the Total Consumption Report), you can now check off multiple foods and enter in the desired quantities all in one step!
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When selecting foods to add to My Tracking, you can browse or search My Foods, My Recipes, or the entire database. Narrow or widen your search by clicking on the category tags. Check off as many foods as you like and enter the desired quantity. When you're done, click "Save and Close" to return to your My Tracking list.
We've also resdesigned some pages to make them easier to use.
Search for foods on the Caloric Ratio Pyramid or Nutrition Target Map.
Want to find foods with a specific ratio of carbs, proteins and fats? Simply position your cursor over the Caloric Ratio Pyramid until you see the ratio you like, then click.
We'll give you a list of foods that match those criteria. LIkewise, you can search for foods with a certain Nutrient Density and Fullness Factor(TM) with the Nutritional Target Map.
These tools were previously found together in the "Food Category Explorer." Now, you can navigate to them directly by clicking on the Tools tab and making your selection.
At the bottom of both the new Caloric Ratio and Nutritional Target Map search pages, you'll also find links to related searches, such as foods with the lowest estimated Glycemic Load, or the Inflammation Factor (IF) Rating.
We hope these changes will make it even easier to track and analyze your intake and to find the foods that best meet your nutritional goals. Let us know what you think!
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Posted by: Brenda | Nov 6, 2008 10:48:59 AM
Thank you Erik. That's not as easy as it was, but is better than having to enter things one at a time. At least it works that way.
Posted by: Monica Reinagel | Nov 6, 2008 10:38:00 AM
Erik, you're right: the feature that allows you to add multiple foods from a single screen is only available by going to My Tracking. It will not work from regular food searches or the My Food list.
However, once you are in My Tracking, you can search the entire database, My Foods, and My Recipes.
Posted by: Erik | Nov 5, 2008 2:36:13 PM
Just to make sure everyone is aware of this, in order for the check box to work, you have to press the "Add to Tracking" button while you're already in My Tracking. You can not simply go to My ND, and then click on My Foods (or even do a search for the food). It will not work. I am assuming it's a bug and will be fixed in the future. Hope this helps.
Posted by: Brenda | Nov 5, 2008 11:13:01 AM
Using Internet explorer 6 - My Foods still doesn't have the check box back. I tried everything you suggested - clearing cache, refreshing, restarting. Nothing works.
Posted by: Bob Walpole | Nov 5, 2008 7:59:23 AM
I like the changes, but using Firefox I cannot add anything to My Recipes. Getting a Java error message.
Thanks.
Posted by: FamilyNutritionist | Nov 4, 2008 9:03:23 PM
I've been reading Neil Barnard's book, and I've been thinking how helpful it would be to identify foods that fit macronutrient ratios and then order them by Glycemic Index (not load, which is dependant on portion size). Now there's a fantasy suggestion -- take any search result and then order it by one of a list of properties, like GI or inflammation, or calcium content.
So far, I think nutritiondata.com has got the other free nutrition sites beat.
Posted by: Family Nutritionist | Nov 4, 2008 8:54:33 PM
Things are now starting to work in IE7! Great new tool! Keep the improvements coming!
Seems like the development team could use testers with a variety of popular browsers for alpha and beta testing before moving tools into the main menus!
Posted by: Marge | Nov 4, 2008 8:12:12 PM
It does seem like a much easier way to put food into the tracking, but so far, using Firefox, clearing the cache, restarting, etc., nothing seems to work to actually put the foods into the tracking after I've chosen them. Do I need to download something?
Posted by: Brenda | Nov 4, 2008 4:00:17 PM
The changes sound great. None of them work for me yet, though, even after clicking F5.
Posted by: Daniel K | Nov 4, 2008 1:35:14 PM
I use the browser Google Chrome, and I am now unable to click the little orange + symbol to add something to my tracking. I now have to go to the individual foods page and then add it via that page.
Posted by: Family Nutritionist | Nov 4, 2008 12:47:04 PM
I like this idea, and will be hapy to see it when it is working. Right now, I get a javascript error.
Here is another suggestion to make nutritiondata easier to use: Put "Better Choices" back on the nutritional analysis page. Right now, if I am looking at Cheerios, and wonder what would be a better choice, I have to click on "add to tracking", then "save and analyze", and then I can finally click on "optimum health". And then, because "basil" really isn't a good substitute for Cheerios, I have to click on the "Breakfast Cereal" category.
And, in the "See Foods that Are" box on the right-hand side of the page, why not include links for foods that are best and worst for Inflammation Factor. I thought there used to be a link for that somewhere...
