Vitamin Cart

A revolution in nutrition awareness: A new software program called Vitamin Cart has become available that you can download and install on your computer. With it, you manage your groceries and analyze nutritional values. It comes with 7000 foods, and each food has information on 43 nutrients (thanks to the USDA food and nutrition database). For a small weekly time investment, you can have the peace of mind of knowing that the foods you eat perfectly support your needs.

Benefits:

Get your vitamins from food, rather than from supplements.
Know that poor nutrition is not holding you back.
Reduce calories, cost, sodium, or any other factor, while maintaining nutrition.
Have your grocery lists generated for you.

Features:

7000 foods and 43 nutrients. (Uses the USDA food and nutrition database.)
Compare your daily intake to the recommended values.
Search for foods richest in any of the 43 nutrients.
Print separate weekly, biweekly and monthly grocery lists.

Reports:

Calorie Distribution: Percentage of calories from protein, fat and carbs
Nutrient Detail: Nutrient values, compared with the recommended amount
Shopping list: weekly, biweekly and monthly shopping lists
Nutrient Distribution: foods x nutrients (matrix, see screenshot)
And other reports...
All reports are printable.

How it is used: Search for foods in the included database of 7000 foods, paste them into the list, enter price, purchase amounts and purchase frequencies, and that's it! You're ready to print grocery lists and view detailed information on 43 nutrients.

Where and how to get it: Available for download here. Vitamin Cart is distributed as a demo. You can dowload it, install it, and see how it works. But to add your own foods to the shopping list, you will first need to register.