Formulating a product is a balancing act. You're adjusting ingredient amounts to hit a taste and texture target, while also keeping sodium under a limit, getting fiber high enough for a claim, or making sure a Canadian product doesn't trigger a "High in" front-of-pack symbol. Traditionally, that meant switching between a spreadsheet, the label and a calculator, and re-running the numbers after every change.
The Dynamic Formulation View brings all of this into the Recipe Builder. Choose the columns and nutrients you want to see next to your ingredients, change an amount, and every column and your nutrition label update in real time. You can see exactly which ingredient is driving each number, and what a change will do to your label before you commit to it.
Plan availability: The Dynamic Formulation View is available on all plans: Basic, Plus, Professional and Enterprise.
Where to Find It
Open any recipe and click the Recipe Builder tab. The Show dropdown is just above the ingredient table, on the right. It tells you how many columns are currently displayed.
How to Use It
Open your recipe and click the Recipe Builder tab.
Click the Show dropdown above the ingredient table.
Under Columns, tick the formulation columns you want to see: Waste, Grams and Percentage.
Under Nutrients, tick each nutrient you want to add as a column. Use the search bar to find a nutrient quickly, or tick All Nutrients to show everything.
Change the Amount, Unit or Waste of any ingredient. Every column, the Gross Totals row and the nutrition label on the right update in real time.
Click the arrows next to a column heading to sort your ingredients by that column.
Click Save to keep your changes, or Reset to discard them.
Choosing Your Columns
Formulation Columns
Waste: Enter the percentage of an ingredient that's lost before it goes into the product, such as peels, trimmings or cores. Your recipe is then calculated on what's actually used.
Grams: Shows each ingredient's weight in grams, whatever unit you entered it in. This is useful when a recipe mixes cups, ounces and kilograms.
Percentage: Shows each ingredient's share of the total recipe weight.
Nutrient Columns
Nutrients are grouped into four sections:
Standard Components: the core Nutrition Facts nutrients, including calories, total fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrates, dietary fiber, total sugars, added sugars and protein
Vitamins: including vitamins D, A, C, E and K, the B vitamins, folate, folic acid, biotin, pantothenic acid, beta carotene and retinol
Minerals: including calcium, iron, potassium, phosphorus, iodine, magnesium, zinc, selenium, copper, manganese, chromium, molybdenum and chloride
Other Nutrients: including calories from fat, polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fat, soluble and insoluble fiber, sugar alcohol, inulin, individual sugars (sucrose, glucose, fructose, maltose and galactose), choline, caffeine, sulfites, water, ash, and omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids
Each nutrient column shows how much every ingredient contributes, with the recipe total in the Gross Totals row.
How Formulators Use It
Reducing sodium. Add the Sodium column to see where your sodium actually comes from. In baked goods, leavening agents and dairy often contribute more than expected, not just the salt. Adjust amounts and watch the label update.
Staying under front-of-pack thresholds. Canada's "High in" symbol and Mexico's warning seals are triggered by nutrients such as saturated fat, sugars and sodium. Keep those columns visible while you formulate, so you know how close you are before the label is final.
Meeting a nutrient content claim. Claims like "good source of fiber," "low fat" or "excellent source of vitamin D" require minimum or maximum amounts per serving. Show the nutrient you need and adjust until the label reaches it.
Cutting added sugars. Show Total Sugars and Added Sugars side by side, then test swaps like fruit purées, sugar alcohols or fibers such as inulin.
Fortifying a product. Show the vitamin and mineral columns to see how a fortified flour or vitamin premix changes the final levels.
Developing specialty products. Track Sugar Alcohol and Soluble Fiber for low-carb or keto products, Omega-3 Fatty Acids for heart-health positioning, Caffeine for beverages, and Sulfites for dried fruit and similar products, which must be declared above certain levels in many markets.
Getting the ingredient order right. In markets like the US and Canada, ingredients must be listed in descending order by weight. Sort by Percentage to see that order at a glance. In the UK and EU, the percentage also supports QUID (Quantitative Ingredient Declaration), which is required when an ingredient is named or emphasized on pack, like the buttermilk in "Buttermilk Biscuits."
Why the Dynamic Formulation View Matters
Fewer formulation rounds. You see the impact of every change right away, instead of saving, checking the label and going back.
You know what drives every number. Ingredient-level columns show exactly which ingredient to adjust to move a nutrient up or down.
Compliance issues are caught early. Spotting a threshold problem during formulation is far cheaper than finding it after artwork is approved or packaging is printed.
No more side spreadsheets. Your formulation numbers come from the same data as your label, so there's no copying values between tools and no transcription errors.
Everyone works from the same numbers. R&D, regulatory and marketing can review a reformulation using the same view.