This guide will help you to find and use all the available useful sources to help you get just what you need fast!
When you get your first assignment, look for information on your topic in Library Catalogue – the Library’s search engine. Remember to log in first, so you can search all collections, place holds, add titles to an eShelf and renew your loans.
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TIP - If you are wanting to search all the derivatives of Nutrition such as nutrition, nutritional, nutritionally, or nutritionalist. Use truncation (e.g. nutrition*) to make sure you are finding everything.
Depending on your assignment you may also need to use one of our specialised databases. Databases are extremely useful tools for researching specific information, recent information and scholarly articles.
Use Foodworks to create diet records, recipes, meal plans and foods:
This is just a selection of the thousands of ebooks available
Use Foodworks to create diet records, recipes, meal plans and foods:
- Compare nutrient analyses to Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs) including RDIs
- See the major sources of a nutrient/component in the diet/recipe
- For a specific nutrient, show the contribution of each food/ingredient to the result
- See energy (macro-nutrient) and fat ratios
- Analyses include energy, macro-nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and food groups and components.
Please note that FoodWorks is not Mac compatible and to use FoodWorks on Mac computers requires additional software. Any databases opened or created in FoodWorks 10 are not backwards compatible with older versions of FoodWorks.
Lnelms, M. (2019).
Thompson, J. (2019).