Ingredient List Management

A recipe’s QUID or ingredient list is generated automatically in Nutritics based on the ingredients in the recipe. You can update an ingredient list at a food level, recipe level or on a product label.

Manging Ingredient Lists on a Food Level

Ingredient lists are added on a food level by opening the food and clicking on the pencil icon beside the ‘Ingredient List’ heading and typing/copying and pasting the ingredient list into the text box.

For a full guide on adding a food to the database (including adding the ingredient list), see here.

Please note that you can only add ingredient lists to system foods or your own created foods.

Manging Ingredient Lists on the Recipe Level

You can also easily manage the ingredient list of any food in a recipe in the recipe workspace. Any changes made will update the recipe’s ingredient list automatically.

Scroll to the 'Ingredient List (QUID)' section in your recipe and click the pencil icon to edit
This will list each ingredient of your recipe and allow you to change the food's name, short name and ingredient list directly

Type the changes into the relevant field to update
Click the pencil icon beside the 'ingredient list' field to edit. If an ingredient list has already been added to the food, it will be visible here, otherwise copy and paste/type one in
Click scan for allergens - detected allergens will be highlighted
You can further customise the QUID by selecting 'Hide %' for an ingredient. This is the percentage that appears after the ingredient name in the ingredient list
Click 'Done' to save the changes
Alternatively, make edits for the ingredient under the 'Recipe Ingredients' tab
Select the ingredient's quantity (1), and then the custom fields tab (2)
Click the button beside ‘Ingredient list for this food’ (3)

Any changes made to an ingredient’s name here will save to the recipe. To sync the ingredient name back to the source you need to select the x button:

If an ingredient list has already been added to the food, it will be visible here, otherwise copy and paste/type one in
If the food is a single ingredient item e.g. olive oil, click on the tick icon and the food name will populate as the ingredient list (an ingredient list is not required for single ingredient items where the name of the food is identical to the ingredient name or the name of the food clearly identifies the nature of the food)
If there are sub-recipes included you can select to list these ingredients separately in brackets after the sub recipe name, or include them in the main list organised by weight. If the same foods are in multiple sub-recipes these will group together in the ingredient list. These foods must have the same short name to aggregate together.

Click scan for allergens - detected allergens will be highlighted
Nutritics will automatically include the disclaimer to see allergens in CAPS & bold, as well as listing the may contains allergens

Pro tip: You can change how the allergens are formatted by going to the main menu by clicking on the cog icon in the top right corner of the screen > settings > preferences > scroll to the advanced section and choose your preference from the dropdown beside ‘Ingredient list allergen format’.