General Nutrition Features:  

The unique features are grahpic: look for mouth watering food and a transforming figure as you enter your personal information and make your daily food selections. FrenchDiet makes great use of intuitive icons, so finding what you want is easy.

FrenchDiet offers a number of food management features like cut and paste favorites, You can also transfer certain foods to a favorites list for quick retrieval. Take advantage of the food guidelines in the integrated Mediterranean Diet, and view your food intake in a variety of graphic forms like the familiar food pyramid and the less familiar podium. The "traffic light" icon system alerts you to your levels of nutrients and whether you need to make adjustments.

 Most leading nutrition software products have enormous food databases; FrenchDiet's food database is smaller, but it allows you to add foods easily. The program also has a time-saving search tool that moves to the right part of the database alphabetically as you type in the food, letter by letter. FrenchDiet tracks only 19 nutrition elements; most nutrition products track over 30.

The Body Mass Index screen shows 15 different calculations for your ideal BMI. However, each calculation yields a slightly different result, calling in to question the validity of the BMI section.

One of the major components lacking in this program is an exercise log that tracks daily physical activity, demonstrating the relationship between exercise and caloric burning. The program also lacks the ability to create meal plans and shopping lists, two features typically found in nutrition software packages.