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  • Cost Of Goods Sold (COGS)

    Calculate the cost of goods sold (COGS) by clicking the costing panel within a recipe portion: You can also analyse COGS by switching to the COGS tab in the tracking panel.  Here you will see a series of columns tracking costs per portion on the menus, including: Please note this is a Premium feature. If you … Continued

    Last updated: 27th August 2024
  • Foodprint

    Foodprint is a carbon and water footprint management and reporting solution. Foodprint can be used within Nutritics to calculate CO2 equivalents produced from production, processing, storage/preservation, packaging, transport methods and cooking methods. This is possible on both foods and recipes within the software. In this guide you will find: Calculating A Food’s Carbon Footprint: Some … Continued

    Last updated: 9th August 2024
  • Find And Replace Ingredients

    With real time click and ‘replace all’ functionality, you can swap brands across recipes and menus quickly and easily ensuring confidence that the correct information, including ingredient lists with full allergen profile is available for your customers. You can also update ingredient quantities across all recipes in batch. To replace ingredients:  If the substitute product … Continued

    Last updated: 23rd April 2024
  • Shopping Lists & Production Sheets

    These are referred to as ‘Production Runs’ or ‘Shopping Lists’ depending on your Nutritics licence type.  Generate an inventory list for your recipes, meal plans or menus and export the report.  This guide will cover CREATING A SHOPPING LIST If the costing feature is enabled on your account, ingredient costs can be added to the … Continued

    Last updated: 28th May 2024
  • Recipe Cost Optimisation

    If you have our costing tool you can use Nutritics to analyse and improve costs for your recipes. The cost of each ingredient is listed beside the quantity box in a recipe.  This is input initially by the user and attached to the food for all recipes. Alternatively, it is uploaded in batch from excel … Continued

    Last updated: 23rd April 2024
  • Grouping Recipes And Foods

    You can categorise your recipes and foods into groups for easy data organisation and sharing to other users.  Only tagged groups will show on the recipe/food workspace. Simply click ‘x’ to remove the group from the recipe/food and refresh the page.  Recipe groups can be viewed by clicking on ‘My Recipes‘ and then hovering over … Continued

    Last updated: 23rd April 2024
  • Food and Recipe Claims

    Nutritics will automatically display all applicable nutrition claims that can be made for your recipe under Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 simply click ‘Add Claims’ to see these. Choose the ‘Nutrition and Health‘ category. After a nutrition claim has been elected for use, the associated Health Claims for that nutrient are displayed, which can also be … Continued

    Last updated: 30th April 2024
  • Waste Calculator

    Waste can be accounted for in Nutritics at multiple levels. In the recipe workspace, if you go to your ingredient list and click to add an ingredient quantity, you will see the option to specify that the quantity ‘Includes Waste’: Ticking ‘Includes Waste’ presents 2 options, ‘Ingredient yield’ and ‘Production waste’:  1. INGREDIENT YIELD %:  … Continued

    Last updated: 13th May 2024
  • Recipe Scaling

    Use the ‘Scale this Recipe’ button at the bottom of the recipe ingredients to calculate the stock required to produce a defined number of portions of a particular recipe: You can also access this by right clicking a recipe from search results and selecting ‘Scale this Recipe’: This can be particularly useful in catering and … Continued

    Last updated: 17th May 2024
  • Recipe Reformulation

    The nutritional content of your recipes is calculated in real time as ingredients are added. Move the mouse over the various label values to explore which foods are contributing most to a particular nutrient. You can then modify that ingredient to produce a more favourable nutrient profile. Nutritics reformulation engine can also give specific recommendations … Continued

    Last updated: 30th April 2024