3. Enter serves per pack and individual serve size of the food product, and where necessary adjust the nutritional values according to changes in water content during cooking.

The window is displayed as shown below:

Enter the number of servings per package and the individual serving size in the appropriate fields, as shown above.

Water may be gained or lost in the cooking process, and this will alter the nutrient concentration. To make these adjustments, enter the cooked weight of the total recipe in the Cooked weight field. The raw weight is displayed for you, calculated as the sum of all the ingredients. When you move from this field, the amount of water loss (or gain indicated by a minus amount) will be displayed and the nutrient values of the food product recalculated.

The ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, with their percentage weight in brackets. Edit the list for label printing at this stage, deleting percentages not required and adding any non-nutrient additives, colours etc.

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