DESIGN PET RECIPES LIKE A PRO
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Make pet food
that's balanced.
We provide pet nutrition software to help you design your next great pet recipe.
Puppies
Adult Dogs
Gestating Dogs
Lactating Dogs
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Balancing for PuppiesFree tutorial on how to balance recipes for your growing puppy. Including large- and giant-breeds.PDD was specifically engineered to balance meals and treats for puppies, including large and giant breeds. By the time you have finished this tutorial you will be able to make complete and scientifically balanced homemade pet food that is precisely optimized for your puppy.
Free Tutorial
Balancing for PuppiesLearn how to easily create precisely balanced recipes for your growing puppy.
Adult DogsFree tutorial on how to create perfectly balanced recipes for healthy adult dogs (all breeds).PDD was specifically engineered to balance meals and treats for all breeds of healthy dogs. By the time you have finished this tutorial you will be able to make complete and scientifically balanced homemade pet food that is precisely optimized for your adult dog.
Free Tutorial
Balancing for Adult DogsLearn how to easily create precisely balanced recipes for your healthy adult dog.
Gestating BitchesFree tutorial on how to create perfectly balanced recipes for healthy gestating dogs (all breeds).PDD was specifically engineered to balance meals and treats for all breeds of healthy gestating dogs. By the time you have finished this tutorial you will be able to make complete and scientifically balanced homemade pet food that is precisely optimized for your pregnant bitch.
Free Tutorial
Balancing for GestationLearn how to easily create precisely balanced recipes for your healthy gestating dog.
Balancing for LactationFree tutorial on how to create perfectly balanced recipes for healthy lactating dogs (all breeds).PDD was specifically engineered to balance meals and treats for all breeds of healthy lactating dogs. By the time you have finished this tutorial you will be able to make complete and scientifically balanced homemade pet food that is precisely optimized for your lactating bitch.
Free Tutorial
Balancing for LactationLearn how to easily create precisely balanced recipes for your healthy lactating dog.
RECIPE BALANCER
More complete and more precisely balanced than commercial pet food.
Create homemade diets for your pets that are more complete and more precisely balanced than any commercial pet food. Pet Diet Designer tracks more nutrients than commercial pet food and balances critical fatty acids that the commercial pet food industry has failed to include in their product offerings. With Pet Diet Designer you can create meals and snacks that are precisely optimized for only your pet. We call this "personalized" nutrition. It's like having your own animal nutritionist!
NUTRIENT SUMMARY
Quickly see if your recipe meets your pet's nutrient requirements.
Nutrient summary graphs let you quickly see if you have reached your pet's nutrient requirements for a recipe or for more meals spread throughout the day (or even a week). You can even include snacks and treats, if desired.
Nutrient summaries are expressed as a percentage and are color coded.- A green bar means that the requirement has been met.
- A yellow bar means you are short of the nutrient, while a
- Red bar means that you have surpassed the safe upper limit for that nutrient.
You can easily adjust ingredient amounts and select (or deselect) ingredients to instantly see if your recipe meets the minimum or recommended nutrient levels for your pet. Each pet has different requirements so you can imagine the time you will save by using Pet Diet Designer to create meals precisely optimized for your cat or dog.
PERFECTLY BALANCED
Balance key nutrients with ease, including important fatty acid ratios.
Pet Diet Designer dynamically calculates all the important nutrient ratios for you and shows you graphically if you are within the recommended range when you are formulating diets for your cat or dog. So creating balanced meals is now easy.
Nutrient ratios are extremely important for your pet's health. A diet that is complete means that it contains all the essential nutrients for your dog or cat. However, a complete diet does not necessarily make it balanced or healthy.For instance, too much calcium can interfere with the absorption of zinc and possibly lead to zinc responsive dermatosis. Calcium also interferes with magnesium and manganese absorption.Perhaps the most important, and well known, ratio is the Calcium-Phosphorus ratio. This ratio is particularly important during the growth stage (esp. for large breed puppies). Imbalances in this ratio can lead to disease conditions such as osteochondrosis, hip dysplasia, hypertrophic osteodystrophy and other skeletal defects.DETAILED NUTRIENT GRAPHS
Detailed pet nutrient requirements and total ingredient nutrient levels.
View detailed information on all nutrients that your pet needs for the current recipe. Nutrient levels for each ingredient are summed and displayed graphically as bar graphs.Your pet's precise daily nutrient requirements are overlayed as line graphs so you can instantly see if the nutrient levels of your recipe are correct for your pet.
The graphs are divided into
- Fats
- Macrominerals
- Trace Minerals
- Amino Acids
- Vitamins
As you adjust the quantity of each ingredient, the graphs will update in real time.
Placing your mouse cursor over each bar graph displays a popup info panel with the precise nutrient level of the recipe and the exact minimum and recommended nutrient requirement for your pet.
AD-HOC RECIPE DESIGN
Instantly view changes in nutrient profiles.
Pet Diet Designer makes it so easy to view your pet's precise nutrient requirements against a recipe's total nutrient levels. Instantly see changes in a recipe's nutrient levels when selecting or deselecting ingredients or making changes to ingredient amounts. Painless ad-hoc recipe design.
INGREDIENT LIST
Do all of your work here. Just add ingredients and change amounts.
Chances are your recipe contains more than one ingredient. This is where the ingredient list shines! Quickly add ingredients to the ingredient list. Change the food quantity and instantly get results. Most ingredients have common measures so you can choose whether to use grams or cups or teaspoons, etc. When adding a food to the recipe database you can also input your own common measures.ORGANIZE UNLIMITED RECIPES
Create, view, and organize all your cat and dog recipes.
CREATE AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF RECIPES FOR ALL YOUR PETS.
Pet Diet Designer comes with dozens of recipes to get you started. Just copy a recipe and adjust the ingredient amounts for your pet. The recipes list is where you manage your recipe information. From this module you can add, edit, copy, or delete a recipe.
ADD PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS AND OTHER DETAILS TO YOUR RECIPE.
The recipe detail module is where you can edit information about your recipe. You can launch this module by selecting a recipe from the Recipe's List Module and pressing the Edit button at the top of the screen on the ribbon.
ORGANIZE ALL OF YOUR GREAT RECIPES AND SNACKS BY ONE OR MORE CATEGORIES.
To help organize your recipes by category just press the Assign Categories tab and start checking one or more categories that you wish to assign. This makes it easier to find recipes with similar ingredients; for example, all beef recipes.
RECIPE CATEGORIES
Create categories for your recipes with our Recipe Organizer.
We start you off with dozens of recipes and are adding more all the time. Soon you will have hundreds of recipes. You need an easy way to categorize and organize all your great recipes. We make it easy for you to add, edit, reorder, and delete your recipe categories. Keep hundreds of recipes organized in easy-to-recall categories.
DIET TRACKER
Keep a history of exactly what you have fed your pet.
The Diet Tracker module is where you record your pet's meal history. Just drag and drop a recipe onto the calendar and a dialog pops up. Here you can choose exactly how you have fed your recipe. Record the recipe as fed, by volume, by weight, or by ingredient. We've covered all the bases with our powerful diet tracker.
POWERFUL REPORTS
Amazing recipe and nutrient analysis reports with just a few mouse clicks.
REPORT FEATURES
- Recipe reports
- Nutrient analysis reports
- Generate in seconds
- Preview and print
- Export to many formats
- Email reports
- Easy to use
- Many more features
NUTRIENT DATABASE
Detailed nutrient profiles for 8000+ foods and supplements.
Search and get detailed nutrient profiles of all foods in our database. And if 8000+ foods is not enough! No worries! You can add your own foods or supplements to the database.
Search or filter foods by name, food group, id #, or manufacturer. When selecting a food from the food list you get a summary of the macro-nutrient content of the food, as well as a quick view of the detailed nutrient content of the food.
View and edit detailed nutrient information on any food or supplement. You can add up to 20,000 user-defined foods or supplements.
Additionally you can add, edit, or delete common measures for all foods. Common measures lets you easily work with ingredients in teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, or any type of measure that you might normally use for an ingredient.
FOOD WIZARD
Easily add your own foods and supplements.
The Food Wizard is where you add foods and supplements to the database. Calculations and conversions are handled automatically by the wizard ensuring the integrity of your data.
PET MANAGER
Manage an unlimited number of pets.
Recording physiological, environmental and lifestage data is critical to designing complete and balanced meals for a pet. A handy pet info panel lets you know if you require any additional info on your pet so that you can create and balance recipes for that pet.
WEIGHT MANAGEMENT
Integrated and easy-to-use weight management.
An estimated one-third of our pets are overweight or obese. Overweight dogs and cats are more susceptible to certain disease conditions. Too much food and not enough exercise is the primary cause of obesity in our pets.
Pet Diet Designer for Windows includes a sophisticated weight management module that will help you feed your dog or cat to reduce their weight. You just enter 3 values: 1) the start date, 2) your pet's current weight, and 3) the desired weight for your pet. Everything gets automatically calculated and graphed for you, including the daily calories to feed your pet and the duration of the weight loss program.
When you balance a recipe (or create one) for a pet that is on a weight loss program, the calculated caloric daily intake generated by the weight loss program is used instead of the normal caloric intake (based on physiology, lifestage, etc.). This makes it easy to ensure your pet stays on track for the duration of the program.
CONTACT MANAGER
Store all of your important, pet-related contacts.
Record veterinarians, groomers, breeders, food suppliers, etc. Have all contact details at your fingertips.
Our Contacts Manager will let you record contact data, email a contact, view a contact's website, or view a contact's address with Google Maps.
APPOINTMENT SCHEDULER
Never miss another appointment with our full-featured appointment scheduler.
Pet Diet Designer for Windows includes a sophisticated appointment scheduling module that lets you record unlimited appointments and events. Our appointment scheduler fully emulates the Microsoft Outlook experience, with all dialogs necessary to navigate and edit individual events-appointments.
With reminders and recurring appointments, you'll never miss another pet-related appointment. You can also schedule appointments for one or more pets at the same time.
KEY FEATURE LIST
Recipe Balancer
- Balance Meals & Treats
- Personalized Nutrition
- Balance Key Ratios
- Integrated Weight Loss
- Precise Calorie Targets
- Optimized Nutrient Targets
- Ingredient Search
- Nutrient Search
- Ingredient List
- Common Measures
- Ad Hoc Recipe Design
- Better Than Commercial Pet Food
- Nutrient Summary Graphs
- Detailed Nutrient Graphs
- Macro-Nutrient Pie Chart
- Crude Protein - Total Fat Graph
Diet Tracker
- Powerful Diet Tracking
- Drag and Drop
- Record Meal/Snack As Fed
- Record Meal/Snack By Volume
- Record Meal/Snack By Weight
- Record Meal/Snack By Ingredient
- Meal Calendar
- Change Active View
- Change Layout
- Change Time Scale
- Quick Navigation
- Date Navigator
- Print Preview
- Print Calendar
Weight Management
- Weight Management
- Easy to Use
- Unlimited Weight Loss Programs
- Automatic Graphing
- Select Weight Unit
- Enter Pet Weight
- View Estimated Weight Loss
- View Actual Weight Loss
- Target Weight Loss
- Calories to Lose
- Calories Needed for Normal Weight
- % of Calories to Feed for Normal Weight
- Calories to Feed Daily
- Calories Needed to Burn Fat in One Week
- Fat to be Lost Each Week
- Weeks Needed to Lose Excess Fat
- Adjust Chart Point Labels
- Add Notes
Recipe Manager
- Dozens of Recipes
- Add Recipes
- Copy Recipes
- Edit and Delete Recipes
- Filter Recipes by Category
- Filter Recipes by Fields
- Recipe Ingredients
- Recipe Directions
- Recipe Parameters
- Recipe Summary and Notes
- Add Recipe Image
- Assign Recipe Categories
Nutrient Database
- Nutrient Database
- Foods and Supplements
- Edit Foods and Supplements
- Common Measures
- User-Defined Foods and Supplements
- Edit or Delete User-Defined Foods
- Search Foods
- Custom Filters
- Macro-Nutrient Pie Chart
- Nutrient Summary
- Edit Nutrient Values
- Calculator
- Measures Lookup Panel
- Message Panel
Appointment Manager
- Appointment Scheduling
- Familiar User Interface
- New Appointment
- New All Day Event
- New Recurring Appointment
- New Recurring Event
- Day and Work Week View
- Week and Full Week View
- Month and Multi-Week View
- Timeline View
- Group by Date View
- Group by Pet View
- Built-in Reminders
- Time Zone Support
- Date Navigator
- Resource (Pet) Filter
- Built-in Data Import and Export
- Built-in Printing
Recipe Organizer
- Recipe Categories
- Delete Categories
- Top Categories
- Add Top Categories
- Edit Top Categories
- Reorder Top Categories
- Sub Categories
- Add Sub Categories
- Edit Sub Categories
- Move Sub Categories
Pet Manager
- Manage Pets
- Unlimited Pets
- Add Pets
- Edit or Delete Pets
- Search Pets
- Filter Pets
- Profile
- Identification
- Body Condition Score
- Activity Level
- Breed
- Notes
- Info Panel
- Image
- Pet Defaults
- Physiology
- Lifestage
- Weight
- Heart Rate
- Breathing Rate
- Temperature
- Height
Food Wizard
- Food Wizard
- Automatic Conversions
- Enter Values Per 100 Grams
- Enter Values for Common Measures
- Enter Food Name and Quantity
- Enter Macronutrients
- Enter Amino Acids
- Enter Fatty Acids
- Enter Minerals
- Enter Vitamins
Contact Manager
- Contact Manager
- Sample Data
- Add, Edit, or Delete Contacts
- Map Contact
We offer scientific, evidence-based DIY diet formulation to the world of homemade pet food. Take your pet diet formulation skills to the next level with the world's best pet nutrition software.
Our software complies with the guidelines set by the 2006 NRC publication, "Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats". This publication is the gold standard for dog and cat nutrition worldwide.
Download PDD today and get started designing dog and cat recipes with confidence using our advanced Pet Diet Formulator™. Designing diets is finally fun!
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