very
easy for pupils at all secondary stages
:: very fast nutritional analysis and linked ordering
:: colourful exportable charts for project reports :: inexpensive (single copy £35;
site licence £70) :: features designed specially for Food
Technology pupils
:: an indispensable support to nutrition courses :: costing functions for budgeting purposes
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NutriGraph for Ordering Ordering - how we started 21 years ago - and a feature which still saves pupils and teachers many hours today - enter a few lesson details and get full supplier-by-supplier order lists. There are over 270 pre-loaded recipes and over 470 pre-loaded ingredients. more |
NutriGraph for Nutritional Analysis (see below) Nutritional Analysis of recipes and ingredients, using the pre-loaded data, the latest (2002) HMSO data, providing your students with colourful bar graphs and pie charts to copy and paste into their project submissions |
NutriGraph for Sensory Analysis - new in v.7 Our latest feature - Sensory Analysis - for Ranking tests, Rating exercises, and Profiling - producing bar and pie graphs and spider plots / star charts either multi-layered or separately |
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1 Analysing one recipe more
6 New in 2003 Comparing one nutrient across many ingredients more
7 Finding where a nutrient appears more |
Sensory Analysis Options Ranking - putting 2 to 4 samples in order of preference, using one or more characteristics (descriptors); shown as bar graph. Suitable for Preference Testing and for Paired Comparison. Rating - rating 1 to 4 samples on a unipolar or bipolar 5 or 7 or 9 point scale; you enter the wording; results are displayed in bar, line or pie frequency charts
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The charts on this page - click links below - will resize to fit the screen, so will be of poorer quality than what NutriGraph produces for you in the classroom. |
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selecting a recipe to test if it contributes towards a healthy diet. Energy units are set to kcal/kJ by a simple click. Also: analysis results can be saved in label format for use in word processing or dtp software, and (from version 6.1) can produce a label on paper ready to be cut out and glued on a packet. |
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– a pupil can compare two different recipes or two versions of the same recipe, by deleting an ingredient and replacing it (temporarily) with a different one. Example: Cheese Scones, one with white flour, the other with wholemeal flour, showing an increase in NSP and a decrease in Starch. Graphs can be saved for later use in word processed reports. |
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total the dishes in a meal or the dishes in a day’s meals. Example: totalling minestrone soup, fish parcels, Russian salad, and a dessert to evaluate if the selection meets dietary targets. From version 6.1, students can decide to produce a pie chart with one sector exploded to highlight the energy source they wish to discuss in a report. |
To view an enlargement at full quality, find and click the resize button at its lower right. |
The charts on this page will resize to fit
the screen, so will be of poorer quality than what NutriGraph produces for
you in the classroom.
To view an
enlargement at full quality, find the picture options at its top left, and
click the resize button at the lower right.
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pupil can examine, by chart or text, any item. Example: a Big Mac, where the pie chart shows that over half its energy provision is derived from fats. Over 400 ingredients are pre-loaded, each with the typical serving quantity and cost. |
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pupil can compare any two ingredients. All options offer FOUR levels of analysis – Basic, Regular, Advanced and Self-Select, making NutriGraph suitable for pupils at every stage from junior to senior specialists. |
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– a pupil can
look for good sources of any one of the nutrients. The top 30 sources are found, displayed as text, and displayed as a graph
(exportable of course) |
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Other NutriGraph options:
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Personalising a recipe - giving students freedom to test variations |
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| You can enter the names of individual pupils (eg seniors) to open up more analysis options. A named pupil can adapt an existing recipe to suit what they are testing and produce graphs for as many adaptations as they wish. |
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- The full ordering functions of OrderMaster are incorporated in NutriGraph – staff orders, pupil orders, pupil personalisation of orders, print-outs by supplier, teacher names, class names, full costing of individual portions and lessons, with ingredients for a large number of recipes pre-loaded (see later pages for more details). |
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Food labels, with example |
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| Our latest version contains
not only an option to save text analysis for use in word processed or
desktop publishing reports, but an option to print the data in a finished
label format ready for sticking to a container or in a project.
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Carrot Cake HOSP 4 servings, each of 260g INGREDIENTS NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION
PRODUCER
Anne Anyone, Somewhere High School STORAGE Keep in container USE BY See Front of Pack WEIGHT 260g |
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Vindogara Software is a Curriculum Online Registered Retailer and Software Provider. NutriGraph has become a recognised name in the provision of diet analysis, with colourful and easy-to-understand charting, in the UK's secondary school sector
Profiling
- using a minimum of 3 and maximum of 8 sensory descriptors,
assessed on a scale of 1 to 6, producing multi-layer (or separate) spider
plot / star diagram; for scoring 1 to 4 samples.
