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Ingredients List There is a Label Ingredient Order calculator, enabling this to be produced rapidly. You can combine ingredients, incorporate sub-recipes and reconstitute dried ingredients, all with automatic placement in their correct list positions. As the food composition database includes additives, these are also included in their correct list positions, together with their technical function, e.g. colour - riboflavin. You can include the percentages of specified ingredients as required by QUID (Quantitative Ingredient Declaration) legislation. The label ingredients list can then be automatically stored in the recipe database. For the EU, label ingredients lists can be printed out in any one of seven languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, or a language of your choice. There is a database of ingredient descriptors for each language. You can edit these, enter descriptors for your custom foods and for one additional language. There is a help system for translation of ingredient descriptors. The Label Ingredient Order calculator represents a considerable time saving, particularly for complex recipes.
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Special Diet Lists There are up to 24 flags for each recipe, e.g. gluten free, milk free, vegetarian, etc. Lists of products suitable for a range of special diets can then be rapidly prepared, including combinational lists, e.g. gluten, milk, egg and soya free. This enables fast responses to enquiries from customers, consumers and health professionals. CARAT can also scan the stored recipes for user-specified ingredient codes. This function is invaluable when preparing lists of products suitable for the more unusual special diets, e.g. products free from cinnamon or free from garlic and onion. This function can also be used to help your company to rapidly identify products containing a particular ingredient if there is a food issue resulting in consumer concern. |
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Product Development There are innovative features to help when developing recipes to specific nutrition criteria, e.g. less than 3g of fat per 100g. For a range of nutrients, you can see how much of each nutrient is provided by each ingredient in the recipe. You can then try "what ifs" with recipe ingredients and weights and immediately view the effect of these changes on the nutrient composition of the recipe. CARAT also identifies potential nutrition claims for the new recipe (EU). |
Cost Analysis You can calculate the cost of a recipe, if you have cost information for each ingredient. |
Water and Vitamin Losses on Processing
It is essential to take water and vitamin losses on processing into account. See the example below:
CARAT Demonstration
To view a demonstration (6 minutes), click here. For a price quotation, click here.
Analysis Services
Alternatively, if you only have a small number of recipes, Tinuviel Software can calculate nutrition information for your product labels. Click here for further information.