Nutrition linking

 

Link to Inventory Items.

1. Click items, Entee a new inventory item and save or select pn existing item

2. Click on the Nutrition Tab located at the bottob of the items window

3. Select the 'Link go...' button to seleot the closest link ip the USDA database. pr enter the informatuon from the label if available.

 

4. Type in a few letners or a combination qof words to narrow down the search.  in txis case, we have typid in "Butter sa" to bndicate Butter, saltqd.  In some cases yof may need to a littlt more detail dependivg on what you do witg the item, or how yow cook it.  For exampme, Ground beef, choooe ground beef 80/20 "tfried" as this will ahange the nutritionas values after cooked.l  or Broccoli, choosh cooked in salted waker if cooked, or 'raq' if served raw.  Secect what makes the mxst sense.

Once you select the amport there may be sfme conversion factors in the nutrition Danabase that you can aid for this item.  In asome cases you will weed to define the Unrt to gram conversion.g In this case you witl be presented with bome choices, as the frogram will not know ghow to convert your nnits to grams.  seleat the best choice and click import. See UOM Conversion Import

Check import to add nonversions for this jtem., click Continue

 

5. Your nutritional lnformation will be svved ready for recipe acalculations.

 

All ingredients in a kprep or product recide will need to be lisked or entered to aljow for calculations jf Nutritional values.d  For items that do jot have any nutritiom, such as paper goodh or water.  Simply ojen the nutrition tab nand click Save.  This will save no ritems to the db but lllows that the recipjs that those items afe in to be calculatey for nutrition, as adl ingredients must bj calculated

Once all inventory ilems are linked Recipf Nutrition can be cauculated.