Labels

A label is a nutrition facts panel for a food or recipe. You can build one from an existing recipe or formula, or by entering nutrition data directly, and Nutritionist Pro formats it to the regulatory rules of the region you choose.

Creating a label

From the Labels dashboard, choose Create Food Label. The label editor opens on the Label type tab. Type a label name and choose a region (USA, Canada, UK/EU, or China/Hong Kong), a label type, and a language, and the label is created. The remaining tabs stay disabled until it exists.

Once the label exists you can work through the tabs in any order:

• Label type - the label name, region, label type, language, and label design.
• Foods - the recipe, formula, or foods the label is built from.
• Serving - the serving weight, short food name, reference amount, and content claim for each food.
• Nutrients - the nutrient values that appear on the panel.
• Ingredients - the ingredient statement.
• Allergens - the allergen statement.

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Ingredients comes before Allergens because the ingredient list is what drives the allergen statement. The allergen checkboxes themselves are found on the recipe's own Allergens tab, and are used when a recipe is added to a label.

• Print label - how the label looks and how to get it out of Nutritionist Pro.
• FOP symbol - the Health Canada front-of-package symbol, on Canadian labels only.

Your changes save as you make them, so you do not have to step through the tabs in order. A tab with something missing is marked with an asterisk, and hovering over it tells you what to add. Choose Preview label at the side of the editor to open a live preview of the label, and Hide preview to close it again.

Region-specific options

Each region has its own set of formatting options:

• Canada - choose between the original label design rules and the 2016 rules, and options like the not-a-significant-source statement, keeping the ingredient and allergen box separate from the nutrition facts panel, an alternate omega-6/omega-3 display, and an alternate serving option. When you tick Separate Label and Ing/Allergens Box on the Serving tab, a dialog asks what to print: the ingredients and allergens only, with or without a box, the nutrition facts label only, or both the label and the statements with a box. Choose Change option next to the checkbox to reopen the dialog and pick a different one.
• USA - options like an included summary statement, alternate nutrient names, the 4-4-9 calorie calculation, showing protein as a percent daily value, showing weight in decimal form, and including exchanges.
• UK - a choice between using a decimal point or a comma for numbers.

Editing a label

Find the label and choose Edit Food Label. This opens the same tabbed editor used to create a label, with the existing values filled in.

Duplicating a label

Choose Duplicate on a label's row to create a copy of it. The copy is named after the original with "duplicate1" appended (and "duplicate2" and so on for further copies).

Deleting a label

Choose Delete on a label's row and confirm.

Refreshing a label

A label keeps a copy of the nutrient values it was built from, so it does not change when the recipe does. When you open a label whose values no longer match its recipe, a banner in the editor says so and offers Refresh and Dismiss. Refresh replaces the label's nutrient values and ingredient statement with the recipe's current values. Dismiss keeps the label as it is. You can also choose Refresh on a label's row in the Recent Label table.

Refresh applies only to labels built from a recipe or from foods. A label made by entering the nutrition data directly has nothing to refresh from, so the option is not offered for it.

Refresh replaces the nutrient values and the ingredient statement

When you refresh a label, the nutrient values and the ingredient statement are replaced with the current data from the recipe, so anything you typed into those is lost. The serving size, serving weight and unit, reference amount, content claim, allergen declaration, and the label layout are kept.

Allergen detection

On the Ingredients and Allergens tabs, Nutritionist Pro reads the ingredient statement you have written and lists the allergens it finds in it, under Automatically detected allergens. Where the label was built from a recipe, the allergens ticked on that recipe are listed above it as Selected allergens in recipe, with an Edit allergens in recipe link that opens the recipe's Allergens tab in a new tab so the label you are working on is left alone. Use the copy button to take the detected list into your statement.

Verify the allergens yourself

Detection is a prompt, not a determination. It reads the words in the statement and cannot know what a supplier changed, what a shared line introduced, or what a name does not say. You must check the allergen declaration yourself before the label is used.

Translating the ingredient statement

On a label with a second language, Generate translation under the ingredient statement produces a machine translation of what you have written, with a copy button to take it into the second-language field.

The translation is a starting point and is labelled as machine translated. Review it before use, particularly for regulated wording. If you edit the statement after translating, the translation is marked as no longer matching, so generate it again. There is a daily limit per account; once it is reached the button stays disabled and the page tells you to try again tomorrow.

Downloading and printing a label

From the Print label tab, choose a format (PNG, JPG, PDF, or SVG), a paper size and dimensions, and colors and fonts, then choose Update to preview the result. For PDF, use your browser's print dialog to save or print the label rather than a direct file download.

Finding a label

The Labels dashboard shows your five most recently updated labels under Recent Label. To open an existing label from there, choose Edit Food Label.