Food Categories

Every item in the Food Dictionary that came with Diet Power is assigned to a food category, and some are put in two or three categories. When you add a food or recipe to the dictionary yourself, the item is automatically put in the User-Added Foods or the User-Added Recipes category, but you can also assign it to as many as two additional categories. (You can also put it in some other category instead of User-Added, but then it won't show up in User-Added category searches¾although it will still have its or symbol.)

(One of the four ways of searching the Food Dictionary is by food category. For details, see Dictionaries, Searching the.)

There are 72 food categories in all. Of these, 70 are basic categories¾

 Alcoholic drinks

 Beef

 Biscuits

 Bread

 Butter and margarine

 Cakes

 Candy

 Carbonated drinks

 Cereals

 Cheese

 Chicken

 Condiments

 Cookies

 Crackers

 Cream

 Desserts, misc.

 Diet foods

 Drink mixes

 Drinks, misc.

 Duck

 Eggs

 Entrées

 Fast foods

 Fats and oils

 Fish and seafood

 Flour

 Fowl, misc.

 Frozen dinners

 Fruit

 Grains

 Herbs and spices

 Hot drinks

 Ice cream, etc.

 Icings

 Jellies, jams, etc.

 Juices 

 Lamb

 Lunch meats

 Meats, misc.

 Medicinal

 Milk

 Milk drinks

 Miscellaneous

 Muffins

 Nuts and seeds

 Pancakes, etc.

 Pasta

 Pastries

 Pies

 Pizza

 Pork

 Puddings

 Rice and rice dishes

 Rolls and buns

 Salad dressings

 Salads

 Sandwiches

 Sauces and gravies

 Sausage

 Snack foods

 Soufflés

 Soups

 Spreads, misc.

 Stuffings

 Sugar and syrups

 Toppings

 Turkey

 Veal

 Vegetables

 Yogurt

¾while two are the user-added categories:

 User-added foods

 User-added recipes

In addition, you can ask Diet Power to list foods that are especially rich or poor in a particular nutrient. Click here for details.