Defining naming conventions for your database can help keep your database organized and allow you to quickly filter and identify your Ingredients and Recipes. This post walks through best practices…
Tag: Nutrition Database
How-to: Exporting a Recipe as an Ingredient
At some point during the process of building your compliant nutrient facts labels, you may want to share the nutrient breakdown of your Recipe of Formula without disclosing any sensitive…
No more SuperTracker. What now?
As of June 30, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has discontinued SuperTracker, its popular online diet, exercise, and menu analysis tool. Now nutrition professionals and students are scrambling to…
How Ingredient Search Results are Returned
Both the Genesis R&D Food and Food Processor programs come with an extensive nutrition database populated with more than 72,000 foods. Additionally, users can add an unlimited number of foods…
Yield Options in the ESHA Database: Choosing Cooked vs Raw
Customers often ask the question, “How do I enter the correct weight of meat when my recipe refers to a beginning raw weight, but my nutritionals need to show cooked…
Creating New Groups in the ESHA Database
Using Groups is an efficient way to organize your data and records. The ESHA database comes pre-populated with a list of common food groups and characteristics you can associate your…