November 23rd 2022, Release Notes: RME | Updated McCance and Widdowson Nutrition Database, Recipe CO2 Fields in API Response, New Nutrition Report

Summary

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Release date for all features: 23rd November 2022

Nutrition database update, McCance and Widdowson 2021

• Enabled by Default? - No
• Set up by customer Admin? - No
• Enable via Support ticket? - Yes
• Affects configuration or data? - No, but makes additional nutrition data available if needed
• Roles Affected: - Nutritionists

What's Changing?

The 2021 version of the UK government-approved nutrition database, McCance and Widdowson, has been added as one of the nutrition database options.  

Reason for the Change

To increase availability of the most up-to-date nutrition information for ingredients.

Customers Affected

Optional. Available to all customers on request.

Release Note Info/Steps

• Raise a ticket with Fourth's Support team to enable the visibility of the new nutrition database

Fig.1 - McCance and Widdowson 2021 available in drop-down after being enabled

New Recipe Nutrition Report:  Recipe Yield and Nutrition Summary

• Enabled by Default? - No
• Set up by customer Admin? - No
• Enable via Support ticket? - Yes
• Affects configuration or data? - No
• Roles Affected: - if applicable

What's Changing?

A report that includes recipe nutrition settings, including Recipe Yield, has been added.

Reason for the Change

To increase ease of validating recipe nutrition calculations and values.

Customers Affected

Optional. Available to all customers on request.

Release Note Info/Steps

• Raise a ticket with Fourth's Support team to enable the new report.

Report name: Recipe Yield and Nutrition Summary

The values displayed on the report are:

Product Key
Recipe Name
Recipe Type (Standard or Batch)
Servings
Raw Weight Quantity
Raw Weight Unit
Shrinkage %
Base Cooked Weight Quantity
Base Cooked Weight Unit
Cooked Weight Quantity Conversion 1
Cooked Weight Quantity Conversion 1 Unit
Cooked Weight Quantity Conversion 2
Cooked Weight Quantity Conversion 2 Unit
Portion Size Quantity
Portion Size Unit
Raw Weight Calc Type
Shrinkage Calc Type
Cooked Weight Calc Type
Portion Size Calc Type
Energy (kcal)
Energy (kJ)
Total Fat
saturates
mono-unsaturates
poly-unsaturates
Carbohydrate
starch
total sugars
Protein
Fibre (AOAC)
Sodium (mg)
Salt (mg)
Nutrition Calculation Method
No. Live Recipes Used in
Number of recipes in all sets that this recipe is used in

Ingredient 'CO2 Value' Field Renamed to 'CO2e per KG'

• Enabled by Default? - Yes, the field visibility is optional and when enabled, will display the updated name
• Set up by customer Admin? - No
• Enable via Support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No
• Roles Affected: - Life Cycle Analysis specialists interested in CO2 tracking

What's Changing?

The ingredient CO2 Value field will be renamed to CO2e per KG.

Reason for the Change

In future, this field will be used as one of the variables to calculate a recipe's CO2e values (e.g., per serving, per 100 grams). The field has been renamed so that customers understand that the value expected here is 'per KG'.

Customers Affected

All customers using the CO2 Value field (can be enabled by Fourth on request). Further details can be found in this release note.

Release Note Info/Steps

The renamed field will display by default.

Fig.2 - Renamed Ingredient CO2 field

New Terms/Acronyms 

CO2e, or carbon dioxide equivalent, is a standard unit for measuring carbon footprints.

Recipe CO2 Properties Re-enabled in Export API for Endpoint GET/recipes

• Enabled by Default? - Yes
• Set up by customer Admin? - No
• Enable via Support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - Yes
• Roles Affected: - API users of the response from GET/recipes

What's Changing?

The new Recipe CO2 properties, which had been added and then removed from the response from GET/recipes, will be enabled again. When the request 'GET /recipes' is made, the response will include properties for recipe CO2:

"RecipeCO2Value": "55.5",
"RecipeCO2Ranking": "Free text"

Reason for the Change

For those customers using RME APIs, these properties will allow the management of the new ingredient and recipe CO2 values via the APIs.

Customers Affected

All customers using the GET/recipes request.

Additional Resources

Links to original release notes:

August 23rd 2022, Release Note: RME | CO2 Ingredient and Recipe Values
September 21st 2022, Release Note: RME | Custom Fields, APIs for CO2 Values, API Enhancements