I'm a sometimes-user of Diet Sleuth and as I recall it IS possible to search for words. It's not the greatest search function, by any means, and it may be among the slowest, but you can search for keywords. My gripes are related, though. It is grindingly tedious to search for and input items for a day's meals, even after assiduously compiling favorites. My experience is that I am capable of applying Diet Sleuth to help me track calories or carbs or whatever for about one month after which I find it has become part of the stuff that my dieting resistance is made up of, rather than an aid. In short, it becomes more trouble than it's worth in about 30 days. It should get easier, but it doesn't. I'm afraid fixing this would require not only a major reprogramming but in some ways a rethinking of how the database is accessed (enable deleting of unused records, for one thing), and of how dieters approach food and meals.