Until recently, nutrition students and health professionals who were interested in analyzing the nutrient content of foods had to look up individual foods in tables, transfer the data to paper and physically add up the amounts of each nutrient. This was tedious and sometimes inaccurate.
In 1996 Chris Hewes and Jim Painter, Ph.D., R.D. developed the Nutrition Analysis Tool (NAT) in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois. Chris was the sole programmer on Version 1 of NAT. By April of 1999 NATS was receiving close to 1,000,000 hits per month, representing interest from over 80 countries. In 1998 a team of developers (listed separately below) began working on Version 2, which includes more information on fast foods and specific brand name products.
NATS uses tables extensively. NATS can be used with most browsers that do not support tables, but the visual results may not be what were intended. This site also uses cookies, so be sure cookies are enabled on your browser.
