# BetterMenu Changelog What shipped in BetterMenu — free tools, Studio features, API and MCP changes, docs and Insights — newest first. Each entry links to the page that owns the detail. **URL:** https://bettermenu.live/changelog ## Recipe versions now have numbers you can say out loud **Date:** 2026-09-16 **Surfaces:** Studio, API **Permalink:** https://bettermenu.live/changelog/2026-09-16-recipe-version-numbers/ Every recipe version used to be identified by a long internal ID. Versions are now just numbered — 1, 2, 3 — so you can reference one in a review or an audit without hunting through history. Every change to a BetterMenu recipe has always been versioned. What you couldn't do easily was talk about one — each version was only identifiable by a long internal ID, not something you'd say out loud in a review. Versions are now numbered. Version history leads with "Version 5" instead of an ID, and the recipe and ingredient compare dialogs name versions the same way. Compare any two, restore an old one, and when someone asks which version introduced a change, you point to a number. Numbers increase but aren't guaranteed to be contiguous — an aborted save can burn a gap — so we show the version number itself, not "5 of 5." ## BetterMenu is now available in ChatGPT's app directory **Date:** 2026-09-12 **Surfaces:** MCP, Studio **Permalink:** https://bettermenu.live/changelog/2026-09-12-chatgpt-app-directory/ Search "BetterMenu" in ChatGPT's Plugins, connect your account, and ask it directly for your recipes, ingredients, and Nutrition Facts, pulled from your own BetterMenu records. Search "BetterMenu" in ChatGPT's Plugins, connect your account, and ask it directly. Your recipes, your ingredients, your Nutrition Facts, pulled straight from BetterMenu's own records, not a generic answer pulled from the internet. Ask for a recipe's ingredients, and it shows its work: "the actual ingredients and quantities saved in your BetterMenu recipe... for nutrition calculations and traceability." Every change in BetterMenu is already versioned. Every number is FDA-rounded. ChatGPT is just a new way to ask for it. ## See your usage before you're billed **Date:** 2026-09-10 **Surfaces:** Studio **Permalink:** https://bettermenu.live/changelog/2026-09-10-see-your-usage/ Going over your plan's monthly recipe allowance no longer stops you to confirm an extra charge. It's billed automatically, so the create-recipe screen shows what you've used, what's left, and the rate if you go over. Going over your plan's monthly recipe allowance no longer stops you to confirm an extra charge. It's billed automatically now. Before you hit Create, the screen shows what you've used this month, what's left, and the rate if you go over. Org admins can also turn metered usage off entirely in Settings. Do that and nobody on the team can go past the included allowance, whether they're working in Studio or through an AI assistant. ## Branded products in recipe formulation **Date:** 2026-09-08 **Surfaces:** Studio **Permalink:** https://bettermenu.live/changelog/2026-09-08-branded-foods-in-recipes/ When your recipe calls for a specific brand instead of a generic ingredient, you can now search for it directly and pull its real nutrient values and labeled serving size straight from USDA Branded Foods. Say your formulation calls for a specific brand of salsa, not a generic "salsa, canned" ingredient. Search now returns branded products from USDA FoodData Central right alongside the generic ones. Pick one and its real nutrient values and labeled serving size carry straight into the recipe. The calculated Nutrition Facts label reflects what's actually going into the product, not an approximation from the closest generic match. A branded product's usage tracks like any other ingredient's. Open it from the Ingredient Library and its Usage tab lists every recipe it's in. ## US Food & Product Search **Date:** 2026-08-25 **Surfaces:** Free tools **Permalink:** https://bettermenu.live/changelog/2026-08-25-us-food-product-search/ Look up real nutrition data for any ingredient before you formulate. Free search across USDA generic foods and hundreds of thousands of branded products, with FDA label rounding already applied. If you're formulating and need real nutrition data for an ingredient, without paying for a lab test just to sanity-check a number, US Food & Product Search is now live at [/tools/ingredient-search/us/foods](https://bettermenu.live/tools/ingredient-search/us/foods). It's free and covers thousands of USDA generic foods plus 455,458 branded products, sourced straight from USDA FoodData Central. Every generic food page shows full nutrition facts with FDA label rounding already applied, so the %DV shown is the one that would actually print on a panel, not the raw lab number. Every result links back to its USDA FoodData Central source. Each generic food also gets its own page you can bookmark, cite, or share directly. ## Insights: how nutrition labels actually work **Date:** 2026-08-07 **Surfaces:** Insights **Permalink:** https://bettermenu.live/changelog/2026-08-07-insights-launch/ Why the same nutrient amount can print a different %DV on two labels. The first piece in a new section on how US nutrition labels actually work. Sometimes the same nutrient amount prints a different %DV on two labels, and you need to explain why instead of just shrugging. Insights is live at [/insights/](https://bettermenu.live/insights/), a new section covering the mechanics behind US nutrition labels. The first piece explains why one vitamin K amount can print as four different %DVs across four different labels, depending on FDA rounding bands most people never see. ## A page for every nutrient in the RDA tool **Date:** 2026-07-30 **Surfaces:** Free tools **Permalink:** https://bettermenu.live/changelog/2026-07-30-rda-42-nutrient-pages/ See exactly why a %DV prints what it does. One page per nutrient, showing the FDA rounding bands and amount range behind every %DV a label can print. If a %DV on your label looks off, or someone asks you to prove where it came from, the Daily Value tool now has a dedicated page for every nutrient. Find it at [/tools/rda](https://bettermenu.live/tools/rda), with the FDA rounding bands and the amount range behind every %DV a label is allowed to print. Each page names the exact provision of 21 CFR 101 it comes from. So when a number looks surprising, like vitamin K printing four different %DVs depending on the amount present, you can show exactly why instead of just asserting it. ## FDA Serving Size Calculator (RACC) **Date:** 2026-07-09 **Surfaces:** Free tools **Permalink:** https://bettermenu.live/changelog/2026-07-09-racc-launch/ Check the FDA serving size before you print a Nutrition Facts panel. Free lookup for all 148 FDA food categories, sourced from 21 CFR 101.12 and 101.9(b). Before you send a Nutrition Facts panel to print, check that the serving size is the one FDA actually expects. Not a guess, and not whatever a spreadsheet template happened to have. The FDA Serving Size Calculator (RACC) is live at [/tools/racc](https://bettermenu.live/tools/racc). It's free and covers all 148 FDA food categories. Each category page shows its exact source: 21 CFR 101.12 for the reference amount, and 101.9(b) for how that amount becomes the serving size on your label. Nothing here is estimated. Search or browse by category, then use the number directly. Before the print run, not after.