Overview
- Product: Nutrition coaching app.
- Cost: Varies depending on features included and the number of clients allowed.
- Meal Plan Package: $336 – $940 per year per practitioner.
- Follow-Up Package: $528 – $1,132 per year per practitioner.
- Features: Nutrition programs, client management.
- Who is it for: Nutritionists and dietitians.
- Alternatives: SelfDecode Pro helps health professionals manage their clients and build custom health plans by providing personalized recommendations based on DNA and labs.
Pros
- Supports multiple languages
- Client app
Cons
- No health testing available
- Does not guide health professionals in creating treatment plans for clients
- No lab analysis or storage tool
What Is Nutrium?
Nutrium is a nutrition and meal planning software for nutritionists and dietitians aimed at helping these professionals better manage their practice.
The company was founded in 2015 by André Santos, Diogo Alves, Pedro Carneiro, and Pedro Maia. They are headquartered in Braga, Portugal.
Nutrium Products & Features
Nutrium offers a way for nutrition professionals to create and share meal plans with their clients. They have two plans, Meal Plan Package and Follow-up Package. Below you can see what’s included in each package.
Each client profile is divided into 7 or 8 tabs, depending on which plan you subscribe to, each having its own purpose:
- Information: Clients’ information and habits, personal and medical history.
- Follow-up: Only available with the more expensive plan. Allows you to check clients’ daily progress.
- Measurements: Anthropometric measurements, analytical data (lab tests), body composition.
- Planning: Weight and BMI goals, physical activity and daily energy expenditure, macronutrient distribution.
- Meal Plan: Create meal plans for clients.
- Recommendations: Add exercise and other recommendations such as foods to avoid and water intake.
- Analysis: Global analysis of macronutrients distribution for the meal plan.
- Deliverables: Choose how to deliver the report to clients.
The first tab in the Nutrium platform is where you enter your client’s expectations, personal and medical history, food behavior, and dietary history.
In the Follow-up tab, which is only available with the more expensive plan, you can keep tabs on your clients’ daily progress by viewing what they ate each day and the nutrient distribution, as seen below.
In the Measurements tab, you can enter metrics such as weight, height, body composition, and the following analytical data:
- Diastolic blood pressure
- HDL Cholesterol
- LDL Cholesterol
- Systolic blood pressure
- Total Cholesterol
- Triglycerides
You can track progress as shown in the chart shown below, but you won’t receive any insights on what these values mean. For example, Nutrium does not include if a lab result is normal or even optimal for each individual. More so, it can be difficult to keep track of these measurements, as there isn’t any obvious indication on which measurement is being added/tracked.
In the Planning tab, you can set goals and define clients’ physical activity levels and daily energy expenditure. Here, you can also set the distribution of macronutrients for meal plans, as seen below, and the duration of the meal plan.
The Meal Plan tab is where you will define meals for your client to follow. You can enter various separate meals such as breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, each with its own food items and quantities. You can also set the time for each meal.
Nutrium also provides the nutritional breakdown of the whole meal plan and displays the macro and micronutrient distribution. Unfortunately, they do not offer a way for you to keep track of these important lab markers, such as iron or vitamin D, to know if there is any in particular your client should pay close attention to.
It’s also important to remember that everyone has different needs depending on their unique genetic makeup. For example, a particular TMPRSS6 gene variant has been linked to iron deficiency. In this instance, you may want to tell your client to pay close attention to their iron intake to counteract common symptoms such as fatigue.
In the Recommendations tab, you can prescribe physical activities to your clients and add other recommendations, such as foods to avoid and supplements. Again, this needs to be done without access to most health data directly from the platform. Nutrium does not assist health professionals in creating health plans for their clients.
In the Analysis tab, you can compare the meal plan you created to the goals set previously. Then, you can choose how to deliver your client’s plan (PDF, email, or message), and you can invite clients to join the mobile app.
Nutrium Cost
Nutrium offers two different plans, and prices vary according to the number of clients allowed.
- Meal Plan Package: $336 – $940 per year per practitioner for 10 or 75+ clients, respectively.
- Follow-up Package: $528 – $1,132 per year per practitioner for 10 or 75+ clients, respectively.
Plans can be billed monthly, quarterly, semiannually, or annually, with prices varying accordingly. Users can cancel their membership at any time.
Health Recommendations from Nutrium
Nutrium does not offer health recommedations based on clients’ health data or test results. Instead, it only provides health practitioners a platform to manage and create plans without guidance from Nutrium.
At most, they offer calorie and macronutrient calculations based on the client’s data, but any food or lifestyle recommendations are given exclusively by the health professional. The platform does not offer any decision-making support to help you choose the best treatment plan for your clients.
Nutrium Privacy & Data Security
Nutrium is GDPR compliant but has not been through a full HIPAA compliance audit by an independent third party for validation.
The company states personal data may be stored for different periods. In general, following the deletion request, Nutrium claims the data is encrypted and stored for the same legal period required for the retention of tax data in Portugal (10 years).
Nutrium Reviews
GetApp – 32 Customer Average Rating of 4.2 of 5 stars
One user likes the deliverables provided as a PDF report but points out that the software revolves solely around creating meal plans for clients, and they comment on how it lacks functionality for other purposes.
Google App Store – 17 Customer Average Rating of 3.5 of 5 stars
The Nutrium app for clients received an average of 3.5 of 5 stars on the Google App Store. Many report poor user experience, such as duplicated data entries, and customers unable to delete previous notes.
Alternatives to Nutrium
Nutrium offers health practitioners a way of creating meal plans for their clients, but they don’t offer support when it comes to choosing the best course of action for treatment plans. You’ll need to manually search their database and select which food, diet, and lifestyle recommendations you want to assign to your client.
When it comes to lab data, you can only log in and track 6 markers. You’ll be able to track other metrics such as weight and body composition, but otherwise, this platform is limited for anything other than meal planning. Even still, some consumers report that their food database is lacking and that it’s a time-consuming software.
To deliver the truly personalized care your clients are looking for, there are other complementary or even alternative services you should consider. SelfDecode Pro analyzes DNA and labs to provide truly personalized and prioritized diet, lifestyle, and supplement recommendations to help you create the best treatment plans for each of your clients based on what they need.
Nutrium vs SelfDecode
Personalized Health Recommendations
SelfDecode uses cutting-edge AI and machine learning to analyze up to 83 million genetic variants and gives personalized health recommendations based on each client’s unique DNA. You can upload your client’s preexisting DNA file or order DNA tests from SelfDecode to get access to the reports.
By analyzing up to 1 million+ variants per report, SelfDecode is able to provide the most accurate genetic risk results and recommendations for your clients. You’ll have access to over 40 dedicated DNA wellness reports, with more being added constantly, including topics such as weight, cholesterol, gut health, and many others.
SelfDecode is a great tool that can help support your decision-making process when it comes to treating your clients. All reports are based on the latest scientific research and updated to reflect new discoveries.
Analyze and Track Labs
With SelfDecode Pro, you can upload lab results or order lab tests to receive tailored insights on how to optimize over 1,000 lab markers. By understanding the current health status of your clients, it can help you choose the best individualized treatment plan to help them achieve their goals.
Data-driven Health Regimen Builder
SelfDecode helps you save time by allowing you to easily create custom health plans for each client with a click of a button, directly from the DNA and lab reports. SelfDecode provides detailed explanations on the health topic and recommendations, citing all peer-reviewed studies used to support the reports.
After deciding on the best treatment plan for your client, you can set the frequency and duration of each recommendation for them to follow.
Nutrium Review Summary
Nutrium can help professionals who are looking to focus solely on building meal plans for their clients. However, the platform may be lacking when it comes to providing a truly holistic approach to health.
By using Nutrium, you’ll receive little to no guidance even when it comes to building meal plans. The platform does not allow you to keep track of most lab data and does not offer any insights into your clients’ health metrics.
Other alternatives may be able to better support you in deciding which is the best course of action for your clients. SelfDecode Pro analyzes DNA, labs, and environmental data to provide personalized diet, lifestyle, and supplement recommendations tailored to your client’s unique needs.
Are you a health practitioner? Book a free strategy call today to see if SelfDecode Pro is the right fit for you and your practice.
