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How to make a nutrition facts panel from a recipe

I show you in this tutorial how to make a nutrition fact panel with the help of Shop’NCook Pro

software. You can also watch here a video of this tutorial.

From a recipe to its nutritional analysis

We take first a recipe for Crab Louis salad. There are several tutorials on Shop'NCook Pro

software showing how to add a recipe and get an accurate nutritional information.

Here, we are just going to take the nutritional analysis shown in the software.

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Displaying additional nutrients

The nutritional analysis in the software does not have many details by default. To display more

nutrients, open the preferences and display the Nutrition tab. Here you have the list of the nutrients

that you can display in the recipe. Select the nutrients you need and click on the arrow to add them

to the list.

To make a nutrition facts panel, you need at the minimum the following nutrients:

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• calories

• protein

• total fat

• saturated fat

• cholesterol

• carbohydrate

• dietary fiber

• sugars

• calcium

• iron

• sodium

• vitamin C

• vitamin A

• trans fat

Shop'NCook Pro software can also include in its nutrition analysis voluntary components and

optional vitamins and mineral if you want to add them to your label, in particular:

• polyunsaturated fat

• monounsaturated fat

• potassium

• sugar alcohol

• vitamin D

• vitamin E

• vitamin K

• thiamin (vitamin B1)

• riboflavin (vitamin B2)

• niacin (vitamin B3)

• vitamin B6

• folate

• vitamin B12

• biotin (vitamin B7)

• pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)

• phosphorus

• iodine

• magnesium

• zinc

• selenium

• copper

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• copper

• manganese

• chromium

• molybdenum

• chloride

Displaying the nutrition analysis in table format

After selecting the desired nutrients in the preferences, select the format in which you want to

display the nutritional analysis. I recommend you to select “Table format”. This will make it easier

to make the nutrition facts label. Click “OK” to save the preferences.

If you display again the recipe and scroll down, you can see that the nutritional analysis is in table

format and has more information than before.

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Inputing the basic nutritional information in the online Nutrition Facts Label Creator

Now, go to the free nutritional labeling tool on Shop'NCook website, which is a free online tool to

create nutrition facts panels. Move the browser window on one side, and Shop'Nook Pro software

with the nutritional analysis on the other in order to have both side-by-side to make it easier to

input the values.

Input in the form the serving size and the main nutrient values calculated by the software, that is

calories, total fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrates, dietary fiber,

sugars, and protein.

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Adding voluntary components to the nutrition facts label

Usually, you don't need voluntary components. If you want to include some, select the checkbox

"Include voluntary components", check the voluntary components you want and type their values

in.

Inputing the vitamins and minerals

For vitamins and minerals, you can choose to input in the form the actual values or the amounts in

percent. Shop'NCook Pro computes both.

If you want to include optional vitamins or minerals, proceed like for the voluntary components:

select the checkbox "Include optional vitamins or minerals", check the vitamins and minerals you

want and type their values in.

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Including a list of ingredients on the nutrition facts panel

If you want to create a nutrition facts label to label a product for sale, you need to include an

ingredient list with the ingredients sorted by decreasing weight. When you display the Nutrition tab

of the recipe in Shop’NCook Pro software, you will see the weight of each ingredient in grams. You

can then easily order them by weight and type them in the form. For compound ingredients, like

salad dressing, you can also specify their ingredients in parenthesis.

For the above Crab Louis salad recipe, you have the following ingredient list, appropriately sorted

by weight:

Lettuce, crab, asparagus, tomato, avocado, French dressing (mayonnaise, mustard, oil, salt,

pepper), egg, chili sauce, mayonnaise, lemon juice, worcestershire sauce, black pepper

To add it to the label, select the checkbox "Include an ingredient list" and type the ingredients in

the field.

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Adding allergy information

You can also include a list of allergens by selecting "Include a list of allergen" and checking the

appropriate boxes in the form, that is milk, egg, fish, crustacean shellfish (crab, lobster, shrimp,

etc), tree nuts (almons, pecans, walnut, etc), wheat, peanuts and soybeans.

For the above ingredient list, the allergens are eggs, crab (crustacean shellfish), as well as

anchovies (fish) that is included in the worcestershire sauce.

Finally, you can optionally include the name and address of the manufacturer.

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Creating the nutrition facts panel from the nutritional information

Once you have input all the necessary information, click on “Create label” to generate the nutrition

facts label. The label is formatted and the nutritional values are rounded according to the rules of

the FDA.

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Creating a shorter nutrition facts panel

You can also generate the label in a shorter format if you don’t have much place on your product.

Use the browser back button to come back to the previous screen. Scroll up, select “short format”

at the top of the form and create again the label in a shorter format.

If you want to know how to create a nutrition facts panel to label a commercial product, you can

find here more information on how to create compliant labels and if using software to compute the

nutritional analysis is appropriate for your product.

Now go ahead and create a nutrition facts panel! If you don't have Shop'NCook Pro software, you

can also download it here for a free 45-day trial and start labeling your products at once.