Since there is no simple and specific program available for the calculation of vitamin A intake, SIGHT AND LIFE has given a grant to establish such a program. The program presented here was prepared by Juergen Erhardt on the basis of existing experience at the University of Hohenheim.

On the webpage www.nutrisurvey.de/vac/vac.htm, you will find all the information you need to work with the software and about the new vitamin A table (see Newsetter 2/2003, 3/2003 and 1/2004), The program (for Windows PC only) can be downloaded free of charge. It can also be found on this SIGHT AND LIFE website (size 1.3 MB) or on the corresponding CD. The version on the CD may not be the most recent version.

On the webpage www.nutrisurvey.de/vac/vac.htm you will also find the most up-to-date food databases.

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To install the software you can download the vac.exe file into a temporary directory. By clicking on vac.exe the program will be installed by a simple installation program. Alternatively you can download the file vac.zip, unzip it and start setup.exe.

To uninstall the Vitamin A intake calculator just delete the directory of the software. Except for the link in the start menu, no changes are made to the Windows system. With the new zip-file the table version of the database is also included, as PDF or EXCEL files. The Vitamin A table of the software can also be downloaded separately as a PDF or an Excel file:

Table as PDF  

Table as EXCEL

A short description of the vitamin A intake calculator.