Dishes and nutritional values

A dish is described once in the catalogue, then reused in every menu. Its nutritional values feed the residents’ intake, its flags and allergens feed the dietary alerts, and its textures the texture check.

The catalogue

  • Meals → Catalog → Dishes — the dishes, grouped by category. The filters Diabetic Safe, Low Salt, Gluten Free, Vegetarian and Halal narrow the list.

  • Meals → Catalog → Dish Categories — starter, main course, dessert…, in the order of the menu.

  • Meals → Catalog → Products — the food products used as ingredients, each with its Nutrition /100g tab.

Creating a dish

  1. In Meals → Catalog → Dishes, click New and give the dish its name.

  2. Choose its Category.

  3. In Available Textures, pick the textures the kitchen can prepare it in; leave the field empty if the dish is offered in every texture. See Food textures (IDDSI).

  4. Fill in the tabs below, then save.

Ingredients

List the products of the recipe with their Quantity and Unit of Measure. The columns show the contribution of each line (kcal, and optionally protein, carbohydrates, fat, sugar and salt).

Nutrition

  • Compute Nutrition fetches the values per 100 g of each ingredient that has none yet from the reference table, switches the unit to grams when needed, and adds up the dish totals. The result (found, already known, not found) is written in the dish history.

  • Energy (whole recipe) and Other — the totals of the recipe: calories, proteins, carbohydrates, fat, sugar, salt. Without ingredients, enter them by hand.

  • Per Portion — Portions per Recipe divides the recipe: Kcal / portion and Proteins / portion (g) are what one plate brings.

The intake comes from the portion

When a resident eats half a plate, WideCare counts half of the per portion values of the dishes served. A dish without values or with the wrong number of portions gives a wrong intake.

The reference table (CIQUAL (ANSES - France) or NUBEL (Belgium)) is chosen in Nutrition Data Source: see Meal and nutrition settings.

Diets and allergens

  • Dietary Flags — Diabetic Safe, Low Salt, Gluten Free, Vegetarian, Halal. WideCare compares them with the residents’ diets.

  • Contains allergens — the allergens of the dish.

  • Compatible with diets — the diets this dish suits.

The flags Vegetarian, Gluten-Free and Diabetic-Safe also appear as badges on the public menu.

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