If you read food labels to see what you are eating, thank ESHA for the information. Elizabeth Stewart Hands and Associate, ESHA, Research, was founded in 1981 to build the comprehensive ESHA Nutrient Database for the food industry. After three years of comprehensive research, in 1984 ESHA released its first software, The Food Processor. ESHA follows stringent investigative protocols and is widely adopted as the industry hallmark for accuracy and completeness in nutritional information.
Acceptance
As of 2010, ESHA reports that its Nutrition Database is used by health and food industries, educational institutions, medical research organizations, food service and manufacturing companies in over 100 countries. By 1991 it was used by more than 90 percent of U.S. food producers and developers. Student versions of the ESHA software are in use by over 80 percent of U.S. college students studying nutrition sciences, for instance the Bellevue College Diet Analysis for Windows. ESHA provides the vitamin, mineral, fat, protein, carbohydrate, calorie count and other nutrition facts for food labels, as required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Standardization
The U.S. FDA requires all foods to provide a standard list of nutrients on all packages. If each food manufacturer or producer established its own laboratory facilities to test and measure its products there would be thousands of redundant labs. The expense would be great and standardization would be nearly impossible. ESHA provides the standardized analyses through its software economically and efficiently.
The Food Processor
The ESHA Food Processor fitness and nutrition software combines the nutrition database with a search feature for comprehensive nutrition analysis. Features include a nutrient search for foods with high or low specific nutrient levels, analysis for 160 nutritional factors in a database of 35,000 foods and recipes. Fitness, weight management end exercise can be planned and tracked by age, height, weight and gender. Food Processor calculates calories and activity levels for weight gain, loss and dietary needs.
The FoodProdigy
The FoodProdigy software is an online companion to The Food Processor. The program allows a client, whether an individual or an institution, to efficiently and quickly document dietary intake of calories and all nutrients and their exercise activities directly from their personal computer. This relieves a client from the need for keeping a daily journal or relying on memory. The individual, a physician, dietitian or health care facility can build a day-by-day, accurate record, without transcription errors and immediately available on screen or in printout form.
Genesis R&D
ESHA's Genesis R&D software allows a user to employ any one of many nutrition label formats and to prepare reports for various applications, including spreadsheets, protein quality reports, bar graphs, allergen alerts and reports on single nutrients for a variety of applications. Genesis R&D also enables a user to customize these formats and reports and save specific or proprietary information, formulas and calculations for future use.
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