Set Ingredient Nutritional Information

 Handling nutritional information with FlexiBake can save you a great deal of nasty math. Once you've entered the nutritional information for your raw materials, the program will carry that information forward to calculate the nutritional information of recipes and products. You can then use FlexiBake to create nutritional panels, in various shapes and styles, for your packaging and labeling.

You can even account for water loss from baking or fat gain from frying, allowing you to keep your nutritional breakdown as accurate as possible. More information on accounting for processing can be found in our article Account for Nutrient Changes Due to Processing.

We recommend using the nutritional information provided by the supplier or manufacturer of the raw material, as this will be the most accurate. However, if you only need an estimate, FlexiBake can use nutritional information from either the CFIA or USDA database.

To record nutritional information for a raw material:

1. Navigate to the Inventory Centre and click Raw Materials.
                                                                        
2. Find the Ingredient you are looking for and double click on it or click on it to select it and click Edit in the bottom left corner.
                           
3. Click on the Nutritional Analysis tab.
                                    
4. From the * Base daily percentage calculations on RDI Values for drop-down menu, select the appropriate option for the region where you are selling products. 
5. Enter in the Nutrient Breakdown in the available fields.
                          
6. If you need to record more information, click Detailed Nutrient Values.                  
7. Alternatively, click the Get From Database button then:
                                   
   • Select the Database from the drop-down at the top of the window.
                               
   • In the Description field, type a unique term for what you are looking for.
                           
   • In the grid below the Description, click on an item to select it.
                          
   • Click OK in the top right of this window.
     
8. Click OK in the top right corner of the raw material to save.

If you feel like you need some extra help with nutritional tasks in FlexiBake, consider taking one of our refresher courses. FBN102 - Nutrition and Costing goes through common nutrition and costing tasks step-by-step in a interactive webinar format.