You can make your own version of the food composition table on a PC using Excel. Use fooddatabase-norway-en.xls and add your own items at the bottom on the first empty row. You can also modify existing lines. To remove an item just make the column A in that item empty. It will be removed automatically after running the macro.

There's no limitation to the characters used in the names of the fooditems, as long as the character belongs to the extended ASCII character set. Choose the unit which can be any free text and the standard amount. Example : unit can be "gram", standard amount can be "50". You then enter the amounts of carbohydrates, kilocalories, fats and proteins for 50 gram. Unit could also be "slice" with standard amount "1". Both field can also be ampty.

The amounts of kilocalories, fats and proteins is optional.

For each fooditem you can also add 4 other units. You will need to recalculate the amounts of carbs. For instance you may want to use for 'apple' unit = piece, standard amount = 1. Then you need to enter the amount of carbs for 1 apple. When using the application, in the screen to add an item, you will then have an option to select the unit.

When the list is ready, press ctrl+h or click on 'Click here to prepare the worksheet for transfer to the GSM'. The Excel table will be saved and a second file will be generated named foodfile.csv and stored in c:\temp (c:\temp must exist on your PC !). Copy the file c:\temp\foodfile.csv to your cellular phone using USB/Bluetooth/Infrared. Then you can use the HelpDiabetes application on the phone to load foodfile.csv using 'options' 'Reload'.

If this option is not available on your phone, then it means you're running the limited version of the application which is used for phones not supporting JSR75 in unsigned midlets. In that case you can still install your own table as described here or you can try to install and run the version with JSR75.

Important :

1. -You should put excel macro security to low. In Excel chose 'Tools' – 'Options' – 'Tab Security' – 'macro Security' – 'Low'.
   

1. -if you want to enter digits after the decimal point, use the decimal which you would normally use in Excel. The table attached uses '.' as decimal point (example 2,5 is written in the table as 2.5). If you would normally use '.' , use it here also.