Nutritional analysis (Nutrimeter®)
Recipes are composed of ingredients, which allow them to be selected during searches, and to be filtered according to profiles (see the section on ingredients) For each ingredient included in a recipe, the “What Foods” team added foods whose nutritional makeup are provided by two public databases :
For basic ingredients, these databases allow you to choose several foods according to their state that determines their nutritional values, as shown in the example of cauliflower : It is thanks to these databases and to the description of the composition of recipes, that it is possible to make nutritional analysis of your diet, as shown in the following diagram : The information necessary to determine the values of Recommended Dietary Intake (RDI) of the thirty nutrients for a person are:
The RDI are thus customized for each individual, based on the recommendations listed in the reference book by the CNERNA-CNRS "Recommended dietary intake for the French population" coordinated by Ambroise Martin. Fact sheets that explain the values and safe limits of toxicity are available on the site What-Foods.com, and are available when consulting the results of the calculation of the RDI by the Nutrimeter ®.. It is possible, at the request of a nutritionist or dietician, to modify the standard RDI for each nutrient so that the Nutritimeter ® becomes a useful monitoring tool for professionals. The nutritional analysis of one’s food intake can be made for a day, or the period during food consumption was logged. The result is a graph (histogram) which gives, for each of the thirty nutrients analyzed by the Nutrimeter ®, a ratio relative to the RDI value set for the physiological profile. The 100% value for a nutrient on the histogram corresponds to match between what is consumed and what is recommended (RDI). This is what is called a balanced diet. |