Gnutrition is free nutrition analysis software written for GNOME. The US Department of Agriculture, USDA Nutrient Database of Standard Reference, Release 13, 1999, is used as the source of food nutrient information. It contains data on 81 nutrients for over 5,000 foods.

Gnutrition (version 0.3) has the following features:

• The ability to search the database for a specific food and exmaine its nutrient composition

• The ability to create a recipe, and compute its nutritional composition. The nutriental composition of the recipe can be compared to the users' own personal dietary goals.

• A searchable database of all the created recipes.

• The ability to record and plan meals on a day by day basis. The average and total nutrient intake can be computed over any given period of days.

• The MySQL database system is used to store the data.

Some of the planned features (in no particular order) are:

• Automatic shopping list generation on the basis of the daily meal plan.

• A graphical presentation of nutrient content of recipes: bar charts, pie charts, etc.

• The facility to store and analyze the nutritional intake of several individuals, each with specific dietary goals.

If you want to get involved in the project and help develop the program in some of these directions, or in others that I haven't thought of, contact me at e.denny@ic.ac.uk. Gnutrition is written in C and uses libglade.

To get a better idea of what gnutrition can do at the moment, take a look at the screen shots.

The most recent version of gnutrition is available from:

• http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/gnutrition/

• ftp://gnutrition.sourceforge.net/pub/gnutrition/

To compile this you'll recent versions of all the GNOME packages. You can get these from:

• http://www.gnome.org/

Alternatively you may use anonymous CVS to access the latest development sources (with all the usual caveats that it may not work properly or even compile).

    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.gnutrition.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gnutrition login
    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.gnutrition.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gnutrition co gnutrition

When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key. Updates from within the module's directory do not need the -d parameter.

Draft documentation is available.

There's a gnutrition mailing list available. To subscribe fill out the form at

http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/gnutrition-devel/.

The permanent location for this page is http://gnutrition.sourceforge.net/.

The sourceforge project page is http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=3624