Comments on: 3 Tips to Improve your Nutritional Food Labeling with Software

By: Mathilde

Mathilde — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:40:14 +0000

If you deleted the database of grocery items by throwing to the trash the file T1.snctem in folder Templates, it will re-create it from the default the next time you start the software. Before you delete the file, make sure however to make a BACKUP of the folder Shop’NCook Pro 3.4 and that you exit the software if it is running. Note that you will lose however all the customisations you did to your database of grocery items – including any ingredients and nutritional information you have added over the years to the software.

Note that version 3.4 is over 7 years old. I really recommend you to upgrade to version 4.0. You may also have the possibility of importing back the deleted grocery items when you upgrade, without losing your customisations.

By: Sergio

Sergio — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:24:10 +0000

Hello, I had been using your software since almost 10 years and I am always pleased. However along this time I deleted the Sopping list items long time ago because I didn’t needed them since I had to edit recipes in other language. Now I Do need to have the Shopping list items in english and because I need the nutritional info, but it will take me for ever to edit it myself. Could you please tell me how could I re install that info. Now I am running version 3.4 and can not upgrade to the latest version. I kindly ask you for support on this matter, thx.

By: Mathilde

Mathilde — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:44:19 +0000

Sam, I have just published a bilingual nutrition facts labelling tool for Canada that can be of interest to you. You can check it here.

By: Mathilde

Mathilde — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:42:02 +0000

Paula, I have finally made a bilingual nutrition facts labelling tool for Canada. You can check it here.

By: Mathilde

Mathilde — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:40:49 +0000

I have created a new bilingual nutrition facts labelling tool for Canada.

By: Mathilde

Mathilde — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 07:02:16 +0000

Calculating the nutritional information from recipes is often not appropriate when you lose (dripppings) or gain (deep frying) nutrients during processing, unless you can measure exactly what is gained or lost.

In the case of juice however, the USDA database contains the nutritional analysis for many different juices. I recommend you to use directly this information, instead of the nutritional analysis of the raw fruit.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:08:25 +0000

I do some consulting for small mom & pop juice bars in Canada. Raw juice production creates a lot of fibrous “waste” after pressing. How do u subtract the waste values from the good stuff in making a nutrition label. The USDA database only contains “all-in” produce data?

By: Mathilde

Mathilde — Mon, 12 May 2014 15:10:13 +0000

To add an item to an existing recipe, edit the recipe and click on the “Add Item” button of the toolbar. Also, make sure you add the item on the Recipe tab of the recipe and input the information (ingredient quantity and name) before switching to the Shopping Item tab.

By: joy

joy — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 02:54:33 +0000

2 questions- editing a recipe- I can seem to add an additional item to a recipe- it allows me to add a line but doesnt add it to the recipe- do I need to recreate a recipe to include additional items- 2nd questions- can you suggest a label template that shows mix and prepared columns.
thank you
love your program!

By: Mathilde

Mathilde — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:24:55 +0000

If you have access to the detailed nutritional analysis of your ingredients, calculation will give as good a result as laboratory analysis since you don’t have any nutrient loss in your preparation.
Make sure to ask the producer of your ingredients for a detailed nutritional analysis. The analysis provided on the nutrition facts label are not good enough, since the values are rounded. If they cannot provide it to you, consider using the nutritional values from the USDA database, as they are based on an average of nutritional values of many producers.
If you use Shop’NCook Pro software, you can directly import the nutritional values from the USDA database, if the ingredients are not already in the software.