Both Tinuviel Software's WISP and CARAT programs can calculate the nutrient composition of recipes. However, the programs have different features targeted at different user groups.

WISP

WISP can analyse recipes in support of the determination of subject's dietary intake and the planning of menus. With the addition of the Labelling Options Pack, WISP can generate a nutrition label as required by EU legislation as well as front-of-pack panels (FSA 'traffic light' and food industry panels). Recipe analyses can be stored as new foods in the food composition database. These can then be used in the analysis of food intake records or in menu planning e.g., school meals.

WISP can generate a dataset for the RecipE-Book program.

CARAT

CARAT is used to analyse recipes for nutrition labelling. It is targeted at food manufacturers. Labelling information for the EU, USA or Canada, in accordance with the appropriate legislation, can be generated. There are powerful tools for the preparation of label ingredient lists, saving a lot of time for complex recipes. Output can be generated in a variety of languages. CARAT can analyse a wider range of nutrients than WISP. It can also generate appropriate potential claims texts for EU labelling.

CARAT has a wider range of data output formats, including most common graphic formats, XML, Excel, etc. Its recipe database can also hold results from laboratory analyses and stores additional manufacturing information. The nutrient databank includes a range of food additives, together with their E numbers.

CARAT also integrates with Tinuviel Software's Product Locator program which provides customer-facing staff with full product label and allergen information.