Nutritional calculation

Calculate accurate 
nutritional values for every product in your range

Food Trace calculates nutritional information per 100g and per serving for every product across your supplier base using data from McCance & Widdowson's Composition of Foods. Support front-of-pack labelling, calorie labelling compliance and allergen reporting without manual spreadsheets.
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Nutrition summary — Beef Wellington

Per 100g normalised · 7 ingredients
Energy
Per 100g
864 kJ / 206 kcal
Protein
Per 100g
18.4g
Carbohydrate
of which sugars 0.8g
9.2g
Fat
of which saturates 4.1g
11.6 g
50k+
UK foods
M&W
Database
1-click
CSV export
How Food Trace works

Accurate nutritional data calculated automatically from your recipe ingredients

Food Trace uses the McCance & Widdowson food composition database the UK's most comprehensive nutritional reference to calculate values automatically from your product ingredient data.
Build & calculate

Add ingredients and get instant nutritional breakdowns per 100g and per serving

Enter your product ingredients and quantities into the Food Trace Recipe Builder and the system calculates a full nutritional breakdown instantly covering energy (kJ and kcal), protein, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugars, fibre, sodium and more. Values are normalised per 100g and calculated per serving size, ready for front-of-pack labelling and nutritional declarations.
  • Full macro and micronutrient breakdown per 100g and per serving
  • Energy in both kJ and kcal — compliant with UK labelling regulations
  • Powered by McCance & Widdowson's Composition of Foods database
Export & report

Export nutritional summaries with one click for labelling and compliance reporting

Every nutritional calculation in Food Trace is exportable as a CSV with a single click ready to feed into your front-of-pack labelling workflow, nutritional declarations, retailer portals or point-of-sale systems. With calorie labelling now mandatory for large out-of-home food businesses in England, Food Trace ensures your nutritional data is always accurate, current and audit-ready.
  • One-click CSV export of full nutritional summary
  • Supports calorie labelling compliance for out-of-home food businesses
  • Retailer and foodservice portal-ready nutritional data formats
The results

What nutritional calculation
delivers for your team

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People, Product, Packaging, Planet

Food Trace structures your CSR data collection around the four pillars that matter most to food businesses giving you a complete and consistent sustainability picture across your supply base.

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Auditable supplier data

Every CSR submission from every supplier is permanently retained in Food Trace giving you a complete, verified audit trail to support sustainability claims made to customers, shareholders or regulators.

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Progress tracking

Real-time dashboards show your CSR goal progress across the entire supplier base so your sustainability team always knows exactly where the gaps are and which suppliers need to act.

* Based on Food Trace customer data.
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Related platform features

Recipe management

Build and manage product recipes nutritional calculations are generated automatically from your recipe data.

Allergen & spec management

Manage allergen declarations alongside nutritional data all linked to the same product and recipe records.

New product development

Nutritional calculations feed directly into your NPD workflow from first spec through to approved product.

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