The Food Database is an excellent way to examine your diet and plan nutritious changes in the way you eat. We've provided a set of tools to interact with the database:

• The Food Counter lets you count up your last meal or day's worth of meals and see how they compare with what you should be eating. Just type in the foods, select the correct serving sizes and number of servings, and it adds 'em up!
• If you want to plan your next meal, the Food Planner is an excellent way to experiment with various food choices. Add and remove foods to a scratchpad while keeping a running total of the nutritional value of everything you've selected.
• If you're only looking for a specific food's nutritional information, Search the Database for it.
• Add a Food to the Database so everyone can use that food in the Food Counter and the Food Planner.

Before you go to any of the database tools, it would be helpful to first set your Nutritional Profile so the Database knows your specific nutrient needs.