Posted on March 30, 2017 by Lev
Fiber has always been one of the required elements for the nutrition label, but the FDA never specifically defined what they meant by it. Total fiber was just that—the sum of all the fiber, soluble and insoluble, in a product. That's changed with the new labeling guidelines, and they've issued a definition, or at least they've started to. Here's where things stand now.
Posted on February 1, 2016 by Lev
One of the main interactions in ReciPal's nutrition label maker is creating a recipe, which means searching for ingredients and adding them as part of your recipe. Part of that is the autocomplete feature helping you out as you type, and part of that is the actual search when you hit the "Search" button.
Posted on June 18, 2015 by Lev
One of the benefits of doing a database nutrition analysis is that a lot of your ingredients should already be in the database, making it a quick process.
Posted on February 12, 2015 by Lev
If you've been using ReciPal recently you've seen a few changes that make creating a nutrition label and recipe costing more powerful and more accurate. You can also read about them here, here, here, and here. One of those changes has been an added factor for each ingredient to account for waste.
Posted on April 24, 2014 by Lev
EDIT: The cookdown feature is no longer part of ReciPal, in favor of the Net Weight Per Package approach.