Now that you have created and edited your recipes in Galley, it’s time to calculate your nutritional values. By the end of this course, you will be prepared to create FDA-compliant nutrition labels.
Table of Contents:
Adding Cooking Methods to Ingredients
Adding Cooking Methods to Recipes
Introduction to Nutrition
You can individually select which nutrients you want to include in Galley! Galley account admin can make this selection in the Company Settings tab on the Profile page.
In this course, we will be working with the FDA-required nutrients enabled.
Ingredient Nutrition
Now that we have perfected our recipes, we are ready to add nutritional information. The nutritional values of a recipe in Galley are the summation of the nutritional values of that recipe’s components, components being any ingredients or sub-recipes that go into that recipe. Let's start at the source of the nutritional values, the ingredients. If you would like to account for the changes in nutritional content due to the cooking process, continue on and we will get to how to do that when exploring how to apply Cooking Methods to ingredients or recipes.
An ingredient's nutrition section can be accessed by clicking 'Nutrition' while on an Ingredient's page.
Once in the Nutrition tab, you can either add nutritional values manually or link the ingredient to an item in the USDA Database. Let's try it out! Click 'Start Demo' below.
Adding Cooking Methods to Ingredients
Now that you have added the nutrition information for the uncooked/raw ingredients, an optional step is to add a cooking method (e.g. sauteed, roasted, steamed, grilled, etc.) to ingredients to account for nutritional changes during the cooking process.
Within the ingredient's Nutrition tab, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the '+' sign to add a cooking method.
Now that you have added a cooking method to an ingredient, navigate to the recipe that uses this ingredient to add the cooking method.
Adding a cooking method to an ingredient in a recipe:
- Add the cooking methods column to the components table.
- Type in the name of the cooking method and select it.
- Notice the total cooked weight displayed at the bottom of the components table will be different than the total weight. This is due to capturing the cooking changes to the ingredient during the cooking process.
- Be sure to add in a custom unit or volume-to-weight conversion for the ingredient as shown above.
Now that you've added a cooking method to an ingredient, added a yield percentage, associated a USDA cooked ingredient (or manually entered your own cooked nutrition information), and then added the cooking method to the recipe, let's give it a try!
Vendor Item Nutrition
Setting nutritional values on the ingredient level is great for any natural goods that are going to have the same nutritional values no matter where you buy them from, such as produce or meat. However, when a good is pre-prepared the nutritional values and dietary flags may vary depending on which brand you purchase. So, in these cases, it's best to set the nutritional values on the vendor item level.
Nutritional Values
When nutritional values are set on a vendor item, they will take precedence over the ingredient's nutritional values at any location where the vendor item is set to the primary vendor item.
Dietary Flags
The combination of the dietary flags associated directly with the ingredient and associated with the primary vendor item will be pulled into recipes.
Ingredient List
A vendor item's ingredient list represents its sub-ingredients. The ingredient list will be listed in brackets [ ] next to the ingredient name on nutrition labels.
Let's add nutritional values to a vendor item!
Recipe Nutrition
A recipe's nutritional values are calculated as a summation of the nutritional values from all of the recipe's components. Just as with ingredients and vendor items, recipe's nutrition section can be accessed by clicking Nutrition while on the recipe's page.
Let's check out the nutritional values of a recipe!
Add Cooking Methods to Recipes
Rarely, but sometimes you may want to apply a cooking method to a recipe rather than to an ingredient in a recipe (see previous lesson on adding cooking methods to ingredients in recipes).
Adding a cooking method to a recipe rather than an ingredient is only recommended for simple recipes, such as those for a single ingredient that can be added as a subrecipe to other recipes. Ex: Sauteed Onions, Pan-fried Ground Beef, or Cubed Chicken to be added to another already-cooked recipe.
Once you have added the cooking method to the sub-recipe, navigate to the main recipe where the sub-recipe will be used. In this case, the cubed chicken will be used in a chicken stir fry recipe.
Let's put this into action!
Nutrition Labels
Now that you have perfected the nutritional values for your recipe, you are ready to generate a nutrition label!
You can access a given recipe's nutrition label by clicking Nutrition Label at the top of the Nutrition tab.
Galley will then generate a nutrition label based on the nutritional values for that given recipe. This nutrition label can be customized to fit your needs, then downloaded to be sent off for printing!
Let's generate a nutrition label!