About Xyris
Innovators in nutrition analysis
Creators of nutrition analysis software for nutrition professionals and consumers
We’re a small Australian company dedicated to creating premium nutrition analysis software for Australia and New Zealand. We like our products to be useful, beautiful, reliable, accurate, evidence-based – and inspired.
Our mission and values
Empowering Australians and New Zealanders to make informed food choices
Our mission is to bring together nutrition science and information technology to empower nutrition professionals and consumers to improve health and wellbeing.
We value
- Innovation and leadership in our field
- Excellence in product design for exceptional useability, accuracy and reliability
- Evidence-based approaches to nutrition and medical nutrition therapy
- Friendly, responsive service for our customers
- Professionalism, integrity and an ethical approach in all we do
Our story
Late 1980s
Chester Goodsell, brings together his degrees in dietetics and information technology to develop pioneering nutrition analysis software designed specifically for Australian dietitians.
1991
Xyris Software begins selling Diet/1 Nutrient Calculation Software.
1996
FoodWorks Professional for Windows is launched, replacing the DOS-based Diet/1.
2001
In collaboration with the Home Economics Institute of Australia (HEIA), Food Choices the IT Way for secondary schools is released, helping teachers to integrate computerised nutritional analysis into the classroom.
2003
With the introduction of a new FSANZ Food Standards Code in 2003, FoodWorks Nutrition Labelling is launched to assist product developers and food technologists in the food industry.
2009
The second edition of Food Choices is released online as Food Choices Curriculum Resource.
A new edition of FoodWorks, FoodWorks Premium, is born.
2012
The first version of our mobile diet tracking app, Easy Diet Diary for iOS, is offered to the public for free, making high quality nutrition analysis available to everyday Australians.
2012
Xyris releases a food descriptions data source, AusFoods, that uses structured, natural language for foods and maps to high quality food composition data.
We also release our crowd-sourced brands-names data source, AusBrands, using information from labels in supermarkets.
2013
FoodWorks Professional integrates with Easy Diet Diary, making it easy for nutritionists to import their clients’ dietary data for further analysis.
2015
Xyris develops food group data, to provide food-based as well as nutrient-based analysis.
2017
Country of Origin Labelling is added for food industry customers.
2017
In partnership with the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Allergy Unit, Xyris develops salicylates, amines and glutamate data for dietitians and nutritionists working with clients with food intolerances.
2018
Easy Diet Diary for iOS has about 1 million downloads.
2019
Easy Diet Diary is released on Android making our popular and reputable free app available to virtually all Australians.
2019
FoodWorks 10 is released, integrating with the new Android Easy Diet Diary, and including Health Star Ratings for nutrition labels.
2020
Xyris Software is restructured to become Xyris and the team dives into re-imagining the classic desktop FoodWorks for the cloud.
2021
Foodworks 10 for the desktop has thousands of users per annum in Australia and New Zealand, with customers ranging from large hospitals, universities and food companies, to small organisations and sole operators in healthcare, recipe development, fitness and micro food businesses.
Throughout 2021
The Xyris team are busy redeveloping the classic FoodWorks 10 for Windows desktop into the cloud-based software, Foodworks.online.
2021
December sees the first release of Foodworks.online Professional for the cloud heralding an exciting new chapter for nutrition analysis in Australia and New Zealand.
2022
Foodworks.online Education for the cloud was released in September 2022. Providing professional nutrition analysis software for universities, colleges and secondary schools in Australia and New Zealand.
2022
Foodworks.online Nutrition Labelling for the cloud was released in December 2022 providing users with the resources to generate food labels which comply with the most recent regulations in Australia and New Zealand, including updated Health Star Ratings, Plain English Allergen Labelling and Country of Origin Labelling.
2023
Foodworks.online Duo, replacing FoodWorks 10 Premium, was released in January 2023. Combining Foodworks Professional and Foodworks Nutrition Labelling editions in one subscription.
Chester Goodsell
Inspiration
Our ongoing efforts are fuelled with gratitude to creative visionary, Chester Goodsell, who demonstrated remarkable initiative, courage, determination and energy in working towards his goal of making a real difference to the health and wellbeing of Australians through nutritional analysis technology. We are inspired to take forward his vision of combining nutrition science and information technology to benefit the public good. Vale Chester, November 2020.
Are you ready to try Foodworks.online?
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You can try all the features of Professional, Nutrition Labelling and Duo editions.
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