Paraben Diet Tracker Reviewer's Comments
Paraben Diet Tracker allows you to track your current diet or create a new one. The program comes with a small food database (about 6,000 food items), USDA nutritional information, and a convenient food-builder tool that allows you to select food from the database to save new, combined food items. But challenging navigation, lack of an exercise log and skimpy help files contribute to Paraben Diet Tracker's low ranking at TopTenREVIEWS.
Unlike other lower-ranked nutrition software programs, Paraben Diet Tracker will let you track up to four people. This means your family can use the program simultaneously. Paraben Diet Tracker includes a personal information database for each person to record weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol measurements.
Although the food database is limited and doesn't offer recipes, Paraben Diet Tracker does allow you to "build" food combinations from the food database by entering the name of each food, the food group, the serving sizes, and then joining parts of other foods found in the database to create new food items. However, it only allows you to track your new food items using six nutrients and two user-defined items.
The software offers a snapshot progress tool; this means you enter measurements periodically (including weight, chest, waist, and thigh measurements) so you can monitor progress of each area easily.
Paraben Diet Tracker doesn't offer an exercise log: you cannot track the relationship between physical activity and your rate of caloric burning. The software also lacks a recipe-creation section, a recipe database, and an application that would let you create shopping lists.
Ease of Use:
Paraben's Diet Tracker lacks intuitive design. Due to its difficult arrangement, the software needs tutorials to help people master the program. The small feature list makes the program simpler, yet it's still difficult to navigate.
Help/Support:
There is a content-sensitive help section but we couldn't fine tutorials, a user manual, or even a getting started program. This was frustrating.
Summary:
Paraben is an inexpensive diet tracking program that lacks convenient features common to higher-ranked nutrition software programs. The small food database, difficult navigation and lack of help make this program inefficient. Try one of TopTenREVIEWS' high ranked products and find the diet support you need.
