Food File

Food File is an easy-to-use software utility that has a built-in database with numerous foods, giving you the possibility to study their nutritional values and, hopefully switch to a healthier lifestyle.

It contains over 7500 food items spread across 24 good groups, offering support for filters, sorting methods, and a search function. The app can be seamlessly figured out by all types of users, whether or not they have previous experience with such programs.

After a speedy installation operation that shouldn't give you any trouble, you are greeted by a classical-looking window with a neatly organized structure, where you can start exploring the food groups.

These focus on baby foods, baked or beef products, beverages, breakfast cereals, cereal grains and pasta, dairy and egg products, fruits and fruit juices, lamb, veal and game products, fats and oils, soups, sauces and gravies, spices and herbs, sweets, and so on.

You can select one or more groups to check out their containing food kinds, as well as select a type to find out typical nutritional values, such as calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat and saturates, fiber, sodium, and water. Apart from showing numerical figures, the application also compiles these values in a pie chart.

Detailed nutritional content is available for those who want to learn about cholesterol, calcium, beta-cryptoxanthin, folic acid, iron, lycopene, magnesium, phosphorus, retinol, saturated fatty acid, sodium, sugar, fat, along with vitamins A, B6, B12, C, E and K, among others.

Moreover, Food File mentions some food facts, such as whether or not the food is low fat, has high sugar content, or has low sodium content. Although the app doesn't integrate options for copying this data to the Clipboard or exporting it to file, it lets you print it.

As previously mentioned, you can resort to a search function to track down a particular kind of food. You can filter foods by nutrients (e.g. fat free, high fiber, low fat, low sodium), as well as sort them by any criterion listed in the details nutritional content area. The utility also lets you add personal notes and look up additional information on the developer's website.

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that the program didn't hang, crash or prompt error messages. Unsurprisingly, it had minimal impact on computer performance, running on low CPU and RAM.

Food File comes loaded with a comprehensive database that allows you to learn more about the nutritional values of food items, and it can be easily handled by anyone.