| Features | Description |
| 7000 food items | The Food Nutrition Facts Windows Vista Gadget offers nutrition facts from a lot of products. It is currently capable of displaying the results of popular food items in the United States. |
| Display multiple nutrition facts | As soon you search for a food item the Food Nutrition Facts gadget is able to display numerous values like vitamines, iron, calories, sodium, cholesterol, copper and more. |
| Filter options | In order to get the best food nutrition facts you can set filters while searching in the flyout window and you can use the pulldown menu to get the best results. |
| Flyout view | Popup an expanded view, including all its detailed food nutrition facts, with a single mouse click, and then close it with another single click. |
| Search results are listed Alphabetically | The food nutrition facts in the gadget are presented in alphabeticall order so that you don't need to search through piles of values before you eventually find your product. |
| Save option | On the detailed page where the nutrition values of a food item are shown you can easily save that info with a single mouse click. |
| Send to a friend | We made a simple section for you to send this tool to all your friends. |
Figure 1 illustrates the gadget in its smallest form, and a typical installation in the Windows Vista Sidebar. Note the more detailed link that appears in the middle of the gadget, enabling a expanded display, showing more nutrition values. Also, several features described in the table above can be seen, including the Flyout display ("Expand"), the pulldown menu and the search box. | ![]() Figure 1. Docked view, with Sidebar layout illustrated. |
| In Figure 2, the gadget is shown in its Expanded state.
You can open this view by clicking the "see more details" link at the bottom of the docked gadget. The wider format of the Expanded view permits the use of a wide tabular format, full titles and additional data, such as vitamins and more. It also allows you to search for food nutrition values in a expanded view. In keeping with our focus on getting every detail just right, note that as soon you start typing the gadget is already showing food suggestions. | ![]() Figure 2. Undocked (expanded) view. |
In Figure 3, the gadget is shown in its Advance search mode. |
![]() Figure 3. Advance search mode. |