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ProNutra™

The gold standard of dietary analysis software for feeding studies.

If you’re undertaking a feeding study, count on ProNutra. Developed with grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to meet the needs of Clinical Research Centers, ProNutra helps you plan, manage and analyze food and nutrient intake and create custom research menus. It uses the USDA Standard Reference (SR) and optional USDA Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) databases.

Installed in more than 50 top research facilities.

ProNutra has been used by more than 50 facilities undertaking nutrition feeding studies, including research centers at Rockefeller, Yale, Ohio State, and Wake Forest Universities, as well as the USDA and the National Institutes of Health. It lets you: Develop custom menu plans.Display current composition of the total diet and dietary goal throughout the menu development process.Virtually eliminate tedious diet composition data entry.Tweak diets automatically to meet specified constraints for several nutrients, and quickly achieve proper nutrient composition.Provide individual analysis of intake with daily and meal options averaged over a specified time.Create reports and customized printouts of production sheets, labels, menus, dietary reports and analyses.Store and export dietary intake data to other statistical software programs.

Standardize and customize based on your research needs.

With ProNutra, you can standardize and customize a feeding study as needed. Standardize by creating diets, tracking subject data by study and storing study-wide information, including contact information. You can factor whole diet schedules to quickly match energy needs for subjects, or customize them to match macro- or micronutrient prescriptions.

Improve the accuracy of your kitchen operation.

For accurate dietary kitchen food processing, you can add the ProNESSy computerized food-scale system to ProNutra. With the ProNESSy add-on, you can design precise nutrient-intake studies to efficiently measure, manage and monitor the preparation and consumption of foods and nutrition.