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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.
  • Allergens - the allergen statement.
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The allergen checkboxes are found on the Recipe "Cooking Loss & Additional" tab. These are used when a recipe is added to a Label.

  • Ingredients - the ingredient statement.
  • 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.
  • 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​

Choose Refresh on a label's row (available when the label is refreshable) to pull the current nutrient, ingredient, and allergen data from the food or recipe the label is built on.

Refresh overwrites manual edits

When you refresh a label, any data you typed in the ingredient statement, allergens, or nutrients is updated and refreshed. If you've manually adjusted any of that text on the label itself, refreshing replaces it with the current data from the underlying food or recipe.

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.