VBS Food Calculation System



The VBS system has been developed to meet the needs of nutrition scientists and practising dieticians to enable them to convert amount of foods to amounts of nutrients.

VBS is based on dynamic food databases, which can be maintainted by the user itself.
The data can be transported to general statistical programs, such as Excel, SPSS and SAS.

The VBS package consists of 3 parts:

  1. VBS Komeet
  2. VBS Manager
  3. VBS Statistics









VBS Komeet

Komeet is an interactive data-entry and nutrition calculation program. The program is dynamic and takes in account the dimensions of the VBS food database being used.


Screenshot of KOMEET

Main features of Komeet
  • Data entry of foods, amounts, serving units, day-, meal- and extra codes.
  • Direct editing of foods and attributes which have been entered
  • Storage and retrieval of personal food information from a food intake (AVA) file.
  • Storage of calculates nutrients in nutrient files for futher statistical analysis.
  • Storage and comparing recipes with RDA
  • Use of Cookbook for recipe calculation
  • Reports top-5 of foods for each nutrient
  • Preselection of serving units, database and nutrients




VBS Manager

 VBS Manager is used to create, add and maintain data in a VBS food database. It is also capable to modify the structure of an existing database.

A VBS database contains information like:
  • Food and nutrient names
  • Nutrient Values
  • Synonymns
  • Portion units and sizes
  • Sources codes
  • Database description
  • Comment fields

You can easily switch to another database within VBS Manager, Komeet and other VBS programs









VBS Statistics
This part of VBS consists of the programs Orion, Foodgroup and TopNut

Orion is used to summerize the nutrient values of food intake (AVA) files and perform statistical breakdowns on:
  • ID number
  • Day Code
  • Meal Code
  • Extra Code
  • Food Groups
Results of these calculations can be imported directly in programs like Excel, SPSS or SAS.

FoodGroup is a utility to organize the foods in different food groups. Food groups are used with Orion.

TopNut creates a top-list of foods which contribute the most to the intake of energy or a certain nutrient.






Technical Requirements
The VBS system, version 4 runs on Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP.
The minimum system requirements for VBS are a Pentium processor with 64 MB RAM. The complete VBS system needs about 50 - 80 MB of free disk space, depending on the size(s) of the database(s). VBS is optimized for a minimum screen resolution of 800 X 600.
VBS is available as stand alone as wel as network version.
Prices of VBS licences are available on request.




Available Versions
Komeet 4.0.57
VBS Manager 4.0.39
Orion 4.0.27
FoodGroup 4.0.24
TopNut 4.0.15
AVA converter 4.0.13
VBS converter 4.0.22