WinDiets

Using WinDiets Professional and Research Versions for the Development and Analysis of School Meals

WinDiets has many features that help in developing meals and diets, for example:

• finding foods with particular nutritional profiles using colour intensity as a guide
• recipe development with allowance for nutrient losses in cooking
• feature that permits inclusion of foods not in the UK food tables and editing of nutritional profiles of those that are frying foods in different fats

Easy Screen
This is the simplest way to learn about the 'healthiness' of foods in diets. Foods have been selected in each meal to illustrate that some foods are 'healthier' than others; there are foods that you would not recommend there to help you show that some foods are better. If you purchase one copy of the Professional version then you can change the foods in these meals and save the screen as a web page for your pupils. Use the Standard to interest the pupils in the subject. Tell them to simply click foods on and off and look at the bar charts for the nutrients. These show the proportion of the dietary reference values obtained by normal sized portions of the foods. The face is a good motivator to get pupils to compete to get healthier diets.