OnTrack Nutrition Reviewer's Comments
THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED
OnTrack Nutrition, a basic program designed for a single user, has the number 10 spot at TopTenREVIEWS. OnTrack Nutrition is user-friendly but lacks some important features, such as an exercise log database.
OnTrack Nutrition lets you import recipes and customize your own recipe book, but the program has a limited food database. Adding foods to the database was inconvenient because the program requests nutrients in milligram amounts. Most nutrition information is listed in percentage of daily value (based on a 2,000-calorie diet-not customizable). This made it difficult to determine milligram amounts without a conversion tool. Many higher-ranked nutrition programs let you enter either milligrams or a percentage of daily values then perform automatic conversions for you.
The food database tracks 31 unique nutrients—a significant number, but not as many as some databases track.
Several critical features are absent from OnTrack. The most notable missing feature is the exercise log. Without this feature there is no way to view the interaction between your exercise and rate of caloric burn. OnTrack Nutrition also cannot create menus and has no meal-planning features. There are no weight calculation or body measurement tracking capabilities either.
Diet Management:
After we reviewed the getting started portion of the program, OnTrack Nutrition was user-friendly. Learning to use the program is easy because there are few features.
Ease of Use:
On-Track Nutrition is easy to install. We encountered no problems throughout the process.
Help/Support:
The help section has basic instructions to navigate screens and use features.
Summary:
OnTrack Nutrition is a basic nutrition analysis program that lacks some vital tools. But this program is relatively inexpensive; if you want an economical way to input and track food intake, analyze nutritional value, organize recipes and track weight, OnTrack Nutrition is a good choice.
