The International Food Information Council released their 2012 Food & Health Survey, which lists a number of important trends in consumer behavior regarding nutrition.
Key points from the survey results:
- 61% of consumers make meal choices based on nutrition (healthfulness)
- 55% of Americans report that they are currently trying to lose weight
- 71% of Americans estimate their daily calorie need
- 60% of Americans believe web-based nutrition tools can help them live healthier lives. (example: nutrition calculators)
- 66% of Americans rely on the nutrition facts panel on packaged fooods.
- Two-thirds of parents worry more about the healthfulness of their children’s diet than their own.
SOURCE: 2012 IFIC Food & Health Survey
ABOUT NUTRITIONIX
Nutritionix provides web-based software to restaurants and food manufacturers to help make nutrition information more accessible to consumers. Nutritionix also hosts the most accurate database of restaurant nutrition information, comprising of nutrition information for over 300 different restaurant concepts.
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Check out the latest restaurants that added to our nutrition directory this week.
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McAlister’s Deli serves up sandwiches, salads, and other dishes at over 300 locations in the United States. With hundreds of thousands of customers visiting their locations every week, McAlister’s needed to find a solution to streamline the way they manage and publish nutrition data to their valued customers.
In early 2012, McAlister’s partnered with Nutritionix to develop a comprehensive nutrition solution, with the goal of providing nutrition data to customers in a variety of methods to ensure that every customer could find an answer to specific dietary questions.
We are proud to announce that McAlister’s launched their Nutritionix-powered nutrition portal page yesterday, and in less than 24 hours over 1,000 customers had already used their nutrition calculator and interactive menu to help them make healthy dining choices. Check out the new McAlister’s Nutrition Portal!
For more information about McAlister’s Deli, or to find one of their 300 locations near you, please visit mcalistersdeli.com.
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We are proud to announce the official launch of the Protein Bar Nutrition Calculator, powered by Nutritionix.
The Protein Bar partnered with Nutritionix in early 2012 to give their customers a comprehensive tool to help fully understand and manage the nutrition values in their food. The fully customizable Nutritionix calculator allows Protein Bar customers to see the exact information they need. Try it out!
The Protein Bar currently has five locations in the downtown Chicago area, boasting a menu full of healthy dining options including quinoa bowls, salads, blended drinks, and more.
Learn more about the Protein Bar at proteinbarchicago.com.
Check out all of our restaurant listings on the Nutritionix restaurant directory. To suggest a restaurant to add to our directory, please contact us.
Today, April 17th, is National Stress Awareness Day! Coincidentally it falls on the very stressful Tax Day.
Our blood pressure rises, we breathe more quickly, we become tense. How often do most of us experience these symptoms at least daily?
Researchers say that a certain amount of stress is healthy – it forces us to meet that deadline and can even act to protect us through our natural fight or flight response. However, constant high stress levels have been shown to be detrimental to our health and have even been linked to heart problems, dementia, and seizures.
Each of us have different symptoms of stress, but how we manage those situations is what’s important. Some of us may experience food cravings – others, loss of appetite. Some, feelings of anxiety – others, feelings of lethargy.
So what’s the best way to deal with stress? By taking some time out of today to just relax and then make it a practice every day. Whether it’s exercising, writing in a journal, meditating, or taking up a hobby, it’ll make a huge difference for your mental state.
Equally as important are the foods you eat. Look out for complex carbs that boost levels of serotonin, a calming brain chemical, like oatmeal or pasta. Stay away from simple carbs like sweets and soft drinks because they’ll only provide short-term stress relief. And instead of coffee, which boosts blood pressure and stress hormones, try a warm black tea, which has been shown to have a calming effect.
Happy stress managing!
Check out all of our restaurant listings on the Nutritionix restaurant directory. To suggest a restaurant to add to our directory, please contact us.
As part of an ongoing push for transparency in nutrition, Nutritionix has announced the official launch of the Taco Bell Nutrition Calculator, a free tool for consumers.
The calculator allows Taco Bell customers to add multiple items to their meal, and generate one nutrition label summarizing the nutrition facts for the entire meal.
While Taco Bell does currently list nutrition information on their official web site, Daniel Zadoff, co-founder of Nutritionix, explains why consumers wanted more: “We were surprised by the hundreds of inquiries we received requesting that we add Taco Bell nutrition data to our calculator platform. Because every restaurant displays nutrition data in a different format on their web site, consumers overwhelmingly prefer to view this data in a more standardized, familiar display. That is exactly what we offer.”
Nutritionix currently lists nutrition information for over 200 restaurants in the US, providing a familiar user-friendly view to consumers.
