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How to Create a Nutrition Facts Label I am going to show you in this video how to
make a nutrition fact label with the help of Shop’NCook software. Here is a recipe
for Crab Louis salad. Shop’NCook software computes automatically the nutritional information.
Getting an accurate nutritional analysis is the subject of another video, so we are just
going to take the nutritional analysis here shown in the software. Here is how you convert
this nutritional analysis into a nutrition facts label.
If you display the recipe, the nutritional analysis has not many details, so we open
the preferences and display the Nutrition tab. Here you have the list of the nutrients
that you can display in the recipe. You can select the nutrients you need and just click
on the arrow to add them to the list, and you can here select the format into which
you want to display them. I recommend you to select “Table format”. This will make
it easier to make the nutrition facts label. Click “OK” to save the preferences.
Now, if you display the recipe, just scroll down. You can see that the nutritional analysis
is in table form, and has more information than before. Now, display Shop’NCook web
page (http://www.shopncook.com). At the bottom of the page you have the link to the Nutrition
Facts labeling tool. This is a free online tool to create nutrition facts panels. I am
going to move this window on one side, and the nutritional analysis on the other in order
to have both side-by-side to make it easier to input the values.
The serving size is about 400 grams. I input it here. Here I am inputting all the nutritional
values calculated from the software. That is calories, total fat, saturated fat, trans
fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrates, dietary fiber, sugars, and protein.
We don’t need voluntary components, but since we computed the amount of potassium,
let’s include it. Now, vitamin and minerals, we have both the
actual values and amounts in percent. We can input the actual values.
We won’t include optional vitamins or minerals. If we want to create the nutritional label
to label a product for sale, we need to include an ingredient list with the ingredients sorted
by decreasing weight. If you display the Nutrition tab of the recipe in Shop’NCook Pro Software
you will see the weight of each ingredient in grams. Then you can easily order them by
weight. That is here: lettuce, crab, asparagus, tomato, avocado, French dressing, egg, chili
sauce, mayonnaise, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, and black pepper. You can also specify
in parenthesis the ingredients of the French dressing that is mayonnaise, mustard, oil,
salt and pepper. We can also include a list of allergens. In
our case we have egg, crustacean shellfish, crab, no tree nuts, no wheat, no peanut, and
no soybeans. We will not include here the name and address of the manufacturer.
We just 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.
You can also generate the label in a shorter format if you don’t have much place on your
product. You can use the browser back button to come back to a previous screen. Scroll
up and select “short format” and now you can create again the label in a shorter format.
That’s all for nutrition facts labeling.