MyPersonalDiet User’s Guide
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Figure 19: The New Food Item window allows you to enter you own food items.
You can enter your own category and all the nutrients of the food item.
Enter Additional Servings
When entering a meal (see Figure 12), select the tab
Servings
to enter extra
information for the meal:
Amount of water servings you consumed (one serving is 1 cup or 250 ml), a
quicker alternative to enter water via the Food Browser.
Extra calories (or kilojoules) for the meal. If all you want is to track is the
energetic value of a meal and you happen to know what it is, you can simply
enter it there, without providing additional information. Note that the nutrients
will remain zero for this meal.
Additional servings for the meal (see Figure 20). This is useful when you eat a
meal composed of a variety of food items: instead of entering each of them
individually, you can estimate how many servings of each food group the
meal is composed of, and only enter the servings. MyPersonalDiet uses
average energetic values per food group serving, as displayed in following
table (values are rounded for simplicity)
Food group
Total cal.
Cal. from carbs
Cal. from prot. Cal from fats
Starch (grains)
90
68
8
14
Protein 179 29
56
94
Fruit 98 90
3
5
Vegetables 69
52
8
9
Dairy 102 16
27
59
Fats, oils, etc.
108
31
4
73
You can choose to enter
the nutrients by weight (g
or mg), or by percent
daily value (%DV)
Nutrients are listed in the
same order than you find
on US food labels.
