Nutrition Information Programs (NIP)

nutrition and diet services (nds) and ComputerSmiths have joined forces to produce NIP recipe software.

NIP Reports

NIP Spreadsheets

 

Minimum Hardware/Software Requirements

  • 600 MHz Intel Pentium III processor or equivalent

  • Windows 2000 or Windows XP

  • Microsoft Access 2000 or higher

  • 128 MB RAM (256 MB or more recommended)

  • 100 MB available disk space

  • Minimum resolution 800 x 600 

 

Nutrition Information Program Recipe Software

Who would use NIP Recipe?

Cookbook authors, food writers, newspaper and magazine publishers, health and fitness clubs, people with special dietary needs and individual consumers are among those who will benefit from NIP Recipe. 

NIP Recipe software allows you to analyze your recipes using our database of over 8,000 foods. This database combines the latest USDA database with over 5000 brand-name and wholesale foods that are available in today's market. NIP Recipe allows you customize the software by adding your own foods to the database. 

The flexible program allows you to choose from 57 nutrients for your customized report. These nutrients include amino acids and trans fat data.

Interested in finding foods that fall within a certain nutrient value range (for example foods below 100 calories)? NIP Recipe enables you to search the extensive database to find these foods.

NIP Recipe Reports

Recipe Report

Are you interested in finding what nutrients are in your recipe or menu items? The NIP recipe report compares the nutrient analysis values to the RDI (Recommended Dietary Intake) standard and shows nutrient value per serving. . Show me more (pdf file).

Ingredients by Gram Weight

Do you develop new food products or recipes for a newspaper, magazine, cookbooks, restaurants, or other use? This report gives you a list of all ingredients you have entered, the total amount of each ingredient and the gram weight of each ingredient in one serving. Show me (pdf file).

Percent Calories Report

Think you're recipe or product is healthy? Find out where the calories are coming from. This NIP report shows you the percent calories that are contributed by protein, fat, carbohydrates, sugar and alcohol. Show me more (pdf file).

Nutrients in Ingredients

Do you develop recipes for a newspaper, magazine or other use? If so this report will be of particular interest. This report groups the ingredients by nutrients so that you can see how much each food contributes to the nutrients you are interested in. You can look at each food in a recipe to see individual nutrient contribution for the total recipe and per serving. 

This report can guide you in reformulating a product or recipe to meet your nutrient goals. Show me more (pdf file).

Ingredients by Nutrients

This report is the same as Nutrients in Ingredients but focusing on the nutrients.  Show me more (pdf file).