Nutrition Calculator (NuCal) is a mobile application tool. It is updated from an internet tool called Nutrition Label Widget developed by the Centre for Food Safety in 2010 for making better food choices by using nutrition labels.
Platform: iPhone 4S / 5 / 5C / 5S / 6 / 6+ / 7 / 7+
OS version: iOS v8.0 or above
It serves eight main functions:
1. Support multi-user to set up personal profile for calculating Body Mass Index (BMI) and Daily Energy Requirement.
2. Construct your personal database of your favourite prepackaged food.
3. Rank food in your personal database by contents of fat, sugars or sodium and show food which meets the conditions claiming low fat, low sugars or low sodium.
4. Exchange the information of food in your personal database with other users through Bluetooth.
5. Recognise daily upper limit and daily intake goal of different nutrients in scrolling widget.
6. With the amount of food consumed, estimate how much nutrients you will take.
7. Estimate your desirable nutrient intake as compared with the daily intake upper limit.
8. Keep track of nutrient intake and percentage of daily intake upper limit with reference to intake history records. (Retain maximum 30 records). User can also delete selected records.
For the fun about nutrition labelling, please visit www.nutritionlabel.gov.hk.
Centre for Food Safety, the food safety authority of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is responsible for ensuring food sold in Hong Kong is safe for human consumption.
Disclaimer:
The result generated by NuCal is determined by the data entered. Food traders may change their recipe and packaging from time to time and users may keep track of the foods of their interest.
Privacy Policy:
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (including its servants and agents) will not collect any personal identifiable information through NuCal. All information entered into this application will only be kept in the user’s mobile device.
This Privacy Policy has been translated into Chinese. If there is any inconsistency or ambiguity between the English version and the Chinese version, the English version shall prevail.