Choose data sources (food selections) for a database

To choose the data sources (food selections) from which you want to select foods:

1. On the File menu, click Database Properties.
2. Click the Food Selections tab.
3. To select the document templates for which you want to set the food selections: Click the Change button, then select the check boxes for the templates.
4. To set the food selections for those document templates, select the check boxes for the data sources.
5. Click Apply; or to apply the changes and close the dialog, click OK.

Tips

• By default, appropriate data sources are selected when for the type of database (database template) you have created.
• Different data sources have different nutrient data available. If you change the data sources, then the nutrient data in the data sources might not match the nutrients enabled for this database. To fix this, click the Nutrients & Components tab, then for Show Components, select 'found in one or more of the data sources' and click OK.
• For help in choosing data sources, click on each data source—a description is displayed on the right. Note that the nutrients available in the data source are listed in the description.

Notes

• The Food Selections tab controls the list of foods displayed when you are selecting foods or ingredients in the Foods or Ingredients tab of a document.
• In the Foods or Ingredients grid of a document, when you select a food from the drop-down list box, its data source is displayed in the bottom border.
• You can select or de-select data sources at any time. Changing the data sources has no effect on documents that you have previously created. (For any food that you have previously selected, FoodWorks uses the nutrient data from the data source for that food even if this data source is no longer selected.)
• If the data source that you want to use is not shown, contact us.
• For more information on data sources, see What is a data source?.