Saffron Nutrition - Food For Thought

Nutrition and its effect on the nation’s health has never been more hotly debated!

The focus on healthy eating and a balanced diet has never been so hotly debated with the recent focus on School Meals, the reduction of salt and the spotlight on nutritionally balanced meals for all. The attention now moves into other areas of catering services including Care Catering, Prison Services and the Armed Forces.

The Saffron Solution

FDH’s Saffron system is the UK’s leading n0utritional analysis solution, and has been designed to meet a wide diversity of catering styles and operations. Saffron Nutrition contains a full database from the McCance and Widdowson nutritional values and provides an essential aid to ensuring a balanced and varied nutritional menu. In addition, Saffron will analyse menu plans, cycles and costs, ensuring complete management control of your catering budget.

Advanced Nutritional analysis module.
Full McCance and Widdowson database based upon the composition of food, including Non Milk Extrinsic Sugars (NMES) with over 60 nutrients.
Regular updated supplier data of products and the nutrient content.
Analyse your recipes, plate serving, weekly cycle or a full month’s cycle.
Create your own recipe costs and review the nutritional data.
Benchmark against pre-defined standards for all standards, school meals, elderly and prison service.
Fully compliant to the new school meal standards, including Hungry for Success.
Detailed colour management graphs for OFSTED reporting.
Food group reporting on frequency of types of product.
Create your own benchmark standards with easy to see status.
Report upon variances by percentage and value.
Flexibility to allow the user to define new standards.
Cost recipes and menu cycles hand in hand with nutritional standards.
Reduction in cost and time in third party analysis.
Report upon recipe types and content, e.g. Low Carb, Contains Nuts.
Manage dietary requirements, allergies and special needs.
Monitor additives including restricted E numbers.
Full management reporting.
Interface into cashless card systems including, CRB, PCS, Infineer, Vericool and Cunninghams.