Sulfites

U.S. labeling regulations require that products containing 10 ppm or more of sulfites must make a sulfite declaration on the package. Most often you will declare sulfites at the end of your ingredient statement. 

Tracking sulfites

Sulfites are entered at the ingredient level or overridden at the Recipe level.  You enter them as ppm (parts per million) and the program will automatically calculate the mg per weight value.  (Note: Both sulfite nutrient fields have been added to the US 2016 All Nutrients to View list and second Nutrients to View set has been added: US 2016 Mandatory + Sulfites.) 

A ppm measurement is constant for an ingredient, regardless of the amount of the ingredient. So the ppm of one raisin would be the same as it is for a pound of raisins, similar to a percentage. The program converts the ppm (mg/kg) of each ingredient to weight in mg in order to calculate the total amount of sulfites in the full recipe. The program then converts the recipe's sulfite weight back to ppm (of the full recipe) in order to determine if a declaration is needed.

Declaring sulfites

At the recipe level, when the total sulfite amount equals 10 ppm or more, a sulfite statement will automatically appear at the end of the ingredient statement in both the ingredient statement dialog and on the label display page:

There are several sulfite statement wording options that can be selected from Label Settings > Nutrient Options > Sulfites.

Tracking Sulfites onscreen

1. Right-click on your Recipe screen and select Display Columns
2. Click Edit and add the Sulfite nutrients
3. When you click OK, you'll get something like this. This lets you see at a glance which of your ingredients is contributing the sulfites and at what amounts.