Ingredients

Complete guide to the ingredient library and editor: search, sort, filter and choose columns; add ingredients from the Add ingredient menu; edit properties, cost, sugars and allergens; shared vs personal ingredients; PAC, POD and HF values; validation checks and quick fixes.

How to add ingredients

Step-by-step guide to adding ingredients: choose an import method (USDA, Nutrition Label, AI, From Recipe), set food type, fix PAC/POD and Total Solids, with a type-by-type guide.

Nutrition Label Import

Import ingredients from product packaging into the calculator. Learn how to enter EU or US nutrition label data, convert serving sizes, select correct food types, and understand how the calculator fills in missing ice cream properties like PAC, POD, and MSNF.

Food Databases

How to import ingredients from national food composition databases (USDA, BLS, Livsmedelsverket, CIQUAL, CoFID, Fineli and more): search in English or native names, read the Data and Score columns, pick the food type, and see how values and sugars are converted.

AI Ingredient

Learn how to create ingredients using AI Assistant: estimate complete nutritional profiles and ice cream properties from ingredient names, handle complex multi-category items like chocolate chips, and use context for better accuracy.

Sugar Composition

Explains how to record an ingredient's sucrose, glucose, fructose, lactose and other sugar fields to calculate accurate PAC/POD, track recipe per-sugar totals, and use AI proposals or fix actions to balance the split. Premium feature.

Convert to Personal Ingredients

Explains the Convert to Personal Ingredients tool, which turns standard ingredients in selected recipes into personal copies or replacements, enabling sub-ingredient and allergen labeling.

Using a Recipe as an Ingredient

Turn a base, sauce or variegate recipe into a recipe-derived ingredient: create it with Save as Ingredient or the Recipe button, keep it in sync, inherit sub-ingredients and allergens, manage it on the Recipe Ingredients page, and use it in production and planning.

Ingredient Packs

Import curated packs of branded and specialty ingredients as your own editable copies, filed in a collection named after the pack. Covers browsing as a guest, Premium packs, ingredients you already have, pack versions and Review updates, removing pack ingredients, and checking pack data.