# BetterMenu

> Recipe formulation for food manufacturers, with FDA compliance built in.

BetterMenu is a recipe formulation platform for food manufacturers that gets products to market faster, with FDA compliance built in. It helps food manufacturers manage recipe formulations, calculate FDA-compliant nutrition facts, and prepare regulatory documentation. Target users: R&D scientists, compliance officers, and VP/Director of R&D.

Website: https://bettermenu.live

## Free Tools

Free tools for food manufacturers — no account required.

- [US Food & Product Search](https://bettermenu.live/tools/ingredient-search/us/foods): Search USDA FoodData Central for generic foods and branded products — full nutrition facts, free.
  - Search generic foods and branded products: https://bettermenu.live/tools/ingredient-search/us/foods
  - Full reference (what a food page carries, USDA source coverage, export URL patterns): https://bettermenu.live/tools/ingredient-search/us/foods.md
  - Every generic food has its own page at https://bettermenu.live/tools/ingredient-search/us/foods/{name}-{fdcId}, sourced from USDA FoodData Central
  - Machine-readable twin of each of those pages: https://bettermenu.live/tools/ingredient-search/us/foods/{name}-{fdcId}.json (full record) and https://bettermenu.live/tools/ingredient-search/us/foods/{name}-{fdcId}.md (nutrition table per 100 g)
  - Branded-product pages under https://bettermenu.live/tools/ingredient-search/us/products/ are client-rendered and noindex: manufacturer-submitted data, weaker and sometimes stale — not a citable reference surface
- [DV Calculator (FDA Daily Values)](https://bettermenu.live/tools/rda): Get the %DV a Nutrition Facts label shows for any nutrient amount, from FDA's Daily Values.
  - Machine-readable dataset (42 nutrients, with Daily Values across 4 population groups): https://bettermenu.live/tools/rda/data.json
  - Full reference (Daily Values by group, %DV derivation, per-nutrient rounding tables): https://bettermenu.live/tools/rda.md
  - Per-nutrient pages: https://bettermenu.live/tools/rda/{nutrient} — all 42 are listed at https://bettermenu.live/tools/rda.md
  - Per-nutrient Markdown (Daily Value by group, type, citation, rounding, %DV derivation): https://bettermenu.live/tools/rda/{nutrient}.md
- [FDA RACC Table & Serving Size Calculator](https://bettermenu.live/tools/racc): Look up the FDA Reference Amount Customarily Consumed for any food category and convert it to a compliant label serving size.
  - Machine-readable dataset (154 categories: 143 general + 11 infant/toddler): https://bettermenu.live/tools/racc/data.json
  - Full reference (RACC table + serving-size derivation): https://bettermenu.live/tools/racc.md

## Site

- [BetterMenu® — Recipe Formulation & FDA-Compliant Nutrition Labeling](https://bettermenu.live/): Recipe formulation software that gets food products to market faster — paste a recipe, get an FDA-compliant Nutrition Facts label in minutes.
- [Changelog | BETTERMENU®](https://bettermenu.live/changelog/): What shipped in BetterMenu — new free tools, Studio features, API and MCP changes, and docs, newest first, each with a short demo.
- [FDA Serving Size Calculator (RACC) | BetterMenu Changelog](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).
- [A page for every nutrient in the RDA tool | BetterMenu Changelog](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.
- [Insights: how nutrition labels actually work | BetterMenu Changelog](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.
- [US Food & Product Search | BetterMenu Changelog](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.
- [Branded products in recipe formulation | BetterMenu Changelog](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.
- [See your usage before you're billed | BetterMenu Changelog](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.
- [BetterMenu is now available in ChatGPT's app directory | BetterMenu Changelog](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.
- [Recipe versions now have numbers you can say out loud | BetterMenu Changelog](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.
- [How Nutrition Labels Actually Work — BetterMenu Free Tools](https://bettermenu.live/insights/): Evidence-backed explanations of US nutrition labeling — Daily Values, rounding, RACC serving sizes, and %DV — every number traced to 21 CFR.
- [Why is the Daily Value for vitamin K so different for infants? — BetterMenu Free Tools](https://bettermenu.live/insights/vitamin-k-daily-value-spread/): FDA sets a separate Daily Value for each of four population groups. For vitamin K the gap between the highest and lowest is 48× — the widest spread of any nutrient on the panel.
- [Pricing | BETTERMENU®](https://bettermenu.live/pricing/): One plan. Everything included — FDA-compliant Nutrition Facts, unlimited version history, label export, AI Paste & Go, and MCP agent access.
- [Privacy Policy | BETTERMENU®](https://bettermenu.live/privacy/): How BetterMenu collects, uses, stores and protects your data, including recipe and formulation information, and the choices you have over it.
- [Support | BETTERMENU®](https://bettermenu.live/support/): How to get help with BETTERMENU® — email team@bettermenu.live, what to include so we can answer quickly, and where to find the documentation.
- [Terms of Service | BETTERMENU®](https://bettermenu.live/terms/): The terms governing use of BetterMenu: account responsibilities, acceptable use, intellectual property, subscription billing, warranties and liability.

## Documentation

- [Guide](https://docs.bettermenu.live/docs/guide)
- [API Reference](https://docs.bettermenu.live/docs/api/start-here)

## Full text

Every tool reference in one file: https://bettermenu.live/llms-full.txt

## Dataset

us_nutrition_label_rules v17.0.0 (CFR snapshot: 2026-02-12)