Check Your Diet

The Customer

For this project, Lightstone worked with the Corporate Communications and Nutrition teams at Nestlé UK.

The Need

As the largest food company in the world, Nestlé prides itself on providing the very latest nutritional information to its consumers.  The   ‘Check Your Diet’   nutritional calculator has been available for several years now, but was in need of updating in line with nutritional guidelines and today’s eating habits.  Lightstone, who took over the design and build of Nestlé's corporate website in 2003, have been itching to enhance the calculator to make it more enjoyable to use.

The Solution

Using Flash, Lightstone's team built an intuitive calculator allowing users to select options from an extensive list of foods, shown as images and each listed according to meal times.  After entering the required information,   ‘Check Your Diet’   compares your nutritional intake to your sex, height and weight.

The calculator then generates an honest assessment of your reported diet, and makes recommendations on how it could be improved.  And although it cannot claim to be as affective as a personal dietary analysis by a qualified nutritionist it is thought provoking, none-the-less!

In order to facilitate the maintenance of the calculator, Lightstone's Flash code draws data via XML.  This means that Nestlé's nutrition team can add new products and update nutritional values easily.

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