Improve the Quality of Suppliers Information

How NutriCalc improves the quality of supplier information

 

Some suppliers offer excellent and reliable nutrition information for their products, however many supplier product information sheets often provide either very limited or very poor-quality information depending upon their source.

NutriCalc runs checks on the data you enter into your custom ingredients and prompts you with our unique help guides.

These guides are in place in order to highlight that there may be a problem with the data that has been inputted into the file.

The areas that NutriCalc checks are:

1. Energy calculations

NutriCalc Online checks the entered energy values for you against values calculated from the Fat, Protein, Carbohydrate, Fibre, Polyols, Organic Acids and Alcohol. 

If there’s a significant difference, it prompts you with what it predicts the correct energy value to be.

Provided the Fat, Protein, Carbohydrate, Dietary Fibre, Polyols, Organic acids and Alcohol values are correct, you should use the value suggested in the help guide.

2. Fat breakdown

Suppliers often provide just a Saturated Fat value in their product specification sheets. NutriCalc Online will offer you the opportunity to base the Fat breakdown on an ingredient that may be in your product i.e. sunflower oil.

If there is more than one significant source of fat in the product, and you cannot obtain more detailed information from your supplier, you should select ‘split evenly’. This is not perfect but will be closer than leaving the nutrients empty.

3. Carbohydrate breakdown

Again, suppliers will often provide the legal minimum of Sugars and offer nothing for Starch or Polyols.

The Online Service will prompt you with a Starch value based on Carbohydrate minus Sugars and Polyols, but this will NOT be correct if there are significant amounts of Oligosaccharides present. Examples of ingredients that have a high level of Oligosaccharides are onions, carrots, peppers, peas and glucose syrup.

4. Sodium

NutriCalc will also prompt you to check your sodium value if this looks very low.

This is an attempt to check that you have entered the quantity in milligrams rather than grams and not entered the Salt value instead of the Sodium value. It should be noted that Sodium and Salt are not the same.

5. Moisture content

If your supplier has not provided a value for this, NutriCalc is able to offer a Moisture content value, based on the other nutrients in the table.


Allowing NutriCalc to guide you through this process will provide a much better quality dataset than you may otherwise have from your supplier.

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