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TECHTIP

Saving Formula and Nutrition Labeling Information

By Lance G. Phillips, Ph.D. and Ann M. Roland, Ph.D.
Owl Software 503 E. Nifong Blvd. #210, Columbia, MO 65201 USA
Tel. 888-621-9063, 573-442-4126 Fax 815-301-9103
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The TechWizard™ can create an ingredient based on formula information. This is very useful for doing rework but can also be very useful for creating new ingredients based on ingredients already in the database. Preparing an ingredient using this procedure will ensure that all nutrient information is calculated and entered. Note: the name of the ingredient placed in the ingredient database using the Sub-Formula procedure is always "*" plus the formula name.

INFORMATION SAVED WITH A FORMULA

Many TechWizard™ users are developing formulas in the "Formula Development" portion of the program then sending that information on to the "Nutrition Info & Labeling" section. The nutrition label and formula declaration are developed and the information printed. However, where the user is in the TechWizard™ when a formula is saved will determine what information is saved. If the user is working on a formula in the "Formula Development" section of the program then the information used to formulate and prepare a batch sheet is saved. On the other hand, if a formula is saved from the "Nutrition Info & Labeling" section then all the information used to create a nutrition label is saved.

The user should keep in mind that if a formula was saved from the "Formula Development" section, sent to the "Nutrition Info & Labeling" section, modified, and saved again that much of the information previously saved from the "Formula Development" section will be lost. If you do not wish to lose information then rename the formula before saving from the "Nutrition Info & Labeling" section. For example, suppose you created a formula in the "Formula Development" section called "vanilla yogurt" and saved this formula to the formula archive. Next the "vanilla yogurt" was transferred to the "Nutrition Info & Labeling" section and further modified. If the formula is saved without renaming it, the information developed for "vanilla yogurt" in the "Formula Development" section will be lost. To prevent this from happening, the user should rename the formula before saving. For example, "vanilla yogurt" could be renamed "vanilla yogurt (nutr. Label)" before saving from the "Nutrition Info & Labeling" section.

NUTRITION INFO & LABELING - RETRIEVING FORMULA INFORMATION

You may not be aware of it, but formulas can be retrieved from a formula archive directly into the "Nutrition Info & Labeling" section. Select Open from the File menu. The Transfer window appears. Select the formula you wish to transfer, select the Nutrition Label option, and press the Transfer button.

 

SAVING THE FORMULA DECLARATION

The formula declaration is typically created from the individual ingredient declarations. The ingredient declarations are strung together to make the overall formula declaration with the order dependent on the ingredient concentration that each declaration pertains to. It is possible to edit the formula declaration manually. This is described in the Editing the Ingredient Declaration portion of the Nutrition Labeling section of the TechWizard™ manual.

Typically the individual ingredient declarations and not the overall formula declaration are saved with a nutrition label formula. However, the user can edit the notes section of any formula and type in the formula declaration directly. The notes are saved when a formula is saved. The notes section can be printed separately as well (refer to Printing Various Portions of the Nutrition Info & Labeling Section portion of the Nutrition Labeling section of the TechWizard™ manual). In this way, the user would never have to use the ingredient declaration editor instead they would simply edit the formula notes.

The formula declaration can be transferred to the formula notes prior to saving the formula from the "Nutrition Info & Labeling" section (be sure the read the previous section on Information Saved with a Formula). Later, when the formula is retrieved from the archive directly into the "Nutrition Info & Labeling" section, the formula declaration can be transferred from the formula notes section back into the formula declaration section. If manually editing the formula declaration, the user should always answer No when prompted to update the declaration information. If the declaration is stored in the formula notes section, the user can edit the notes directly.

It is possible to copy the formula declaration information from the Nutrition Info & Labeling" section, to the notes portion of the Formula Development section. To do this, the user selects the formula declaration information from the Ingredient Declaration window by highlighting it with the mouse, copies it by pressing "Ctrl C", goes to the formula development section, views the formula note, and presses "Ctrl V" to paste it.