Determining a recipe’s nutrition facts is important before a restaurant can provide nutritional information for its patrons. If this is a hurdle for your business, keep reading for details on how to calculate the nutritional value of food products. 

The FDA requires nutrition facts and the nutrition label on a product to be sold in retail stores or listed on a menu for restaurant chains. 

Fortunately, there are helpful resources for businesses to inform consumers of the nutrition of each food product they purchase in a store or at a restaurant.

Why Nutrition Facts Matter For Every Recipe 

Nutrition facts support consumers in maintaining dietary needs and empower them to make healthy, nutritious food choices.

Recipe calculators help determine the nutritional content of a food product. They gather data from ingredients and then calculate each recipe’s nutritional value and calories and a single serving.

Recipe calorie calculators can also determine a food’s nutritional value in terms of calorie count, vitamin and mineral contents, sugar, fat, and more. 

A recipe calculator can help effectively estimate a recipe’s calories, protein, and fat. 

This information is invaluable so companies can make modifications to the recipes as they see fit.

Knowing calorie counts in recipes makes it easier to use more nutritious ingredients and make adjustments as you see fit. 

Optimize Your Recipe Nutrition Facts Label with Reliable Calculators

You can do all of this yourself through one of the many free calculators available online. 

Any slight change in ingredient, a different brand, or alternative food can drastically change the nutrition facts of each recipe. 

The workload to adjust ingredients per recipe can be grueling and often inaccurate. Relying on the data from MyFitnessPal or VeryWellFit requires you to do your research. You’ll have to verify the validity of the ingredients and ensure platforms contain the brands and ingredients you are using.

If the free recipe calculators online aren’t your thing, nutrition consulting programs are another option. When partnering with a nutrition analysis program, you’ll access recipes, add ingredients, and determine your food’s nutrition facts. ​​

MenuCalc is a central platform that allows businesses the space to create, analyze and store their recipes. You can use our recipe nutrition calculator to easily calculate calories and other information about all of your recipes.

Create Restaurant Nutrition Facts with MenuCalc

MenuCalc was created just for food business professionals. So, we thought it might be convenient to have the ability to create nutrition facts panels right in the same software you use for recipe nutrition analysis. 

Chain restaurants of 20 or more locations are required to provide the nutrition facts for their menu items to consumers. It’s more crucial than ever to ensure that the information you’re giving patrons is accurate. Nutrition facts should be informational and helpful in encouraging consumers to make healthier, nutritious choices. Our software does just that while remaining simple and effective for food companies to use.

We’ve included a built-in nutrition label creator for your front-of-house and/or retail products. Additionally, we’ve looped in automatic updates and FDA-Compliance assistance, so your panels are always up to government standards. Learn more about how MenuCalc can help your restaurant here.