Recipe Calc Reviewer's Comments
Recipe Calc is a calorie counter and nutrition calculator. It's user-friendly and includes ample help. its low rank is due simply to the narrow feature set. If your main concern is the nutritional content of your daily food intake, this program will do the job.
Recipe Calc calculates total calories, calories from fat, the percentage of calories from fat, fat weight (in grams), cholesterol, carbohydrates, sodium, and protein. The program displays this information in the "Nutrition Facts" label format that you are accustomed to seeing on lables, making it simple to interpret the data.
Recipe Calc allows you to enter your recipes into a database by selecting and combining food items from the database. The program automatically totals the nutritional value of your recipe and displays the information in the standard "Nutrition Facts" label format.
After you have entered your recipe and made a nutrition facts label, you can print the recipe and the label too—a fun plus when sharing treats with friends. You can also send recipes to others by email or save recipes as web pages.
Ease of Use:
This program is simple and quickly mastered. The nutrient label format lends a familiar feeling to the program. See your daily intake quickly and adjust your diet accordingly.
Help/Support:
Recipe Calc has an excellent help segment. This includes several informative topics, which—when combined with the simple navigation of the program—make Recipe Calc easy for anyone to understand.
Summary:
Recipe Calc is a simple, well-designed, user-friendly program. It has one function—to calculate the nutritional value of your recipes. Recipe Calc performs this function extremely well using the familiar nutrition label format. Need more feedback and tracking functions? Try one of the more comprehensive programs found on TopTenREVIEWS' side-by-side comparison chart.
