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Recipe nutrition calculator — Australian data
Enter the ingredients of your recipe and their weight in grams. The calculator works out the seven entries an Australian Nutrition Information Panel needs — energy in kilojoules, protein, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugars and sodium in milligrams — from the FSANZ food composition dataset. Free, no sign-up, everything stays in your browser.
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Values per 100 g of the ingredients as weighed, without cooking loss. The three-significant-figure rounding of Standard 1.2.8—7(3) belongs to the panel, not to the calculation — our panel calculator applies it.
Why this is not a European calculator with different words
Two things change the moment a label is Australian, and both of them are in the numbers rather than in the layout.
| Australia / New Zealand | European Union | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | kJ, kcal optional | kJ and kcal |
| Sodium or salt | Sodium, mg | Salt, g |
| Order of rows | Energy, protein, fat, —saturated, carbohydrate, —sugars, sodium | Energy, fat, saturates, carbohydrate, sugars, protein, salt |
| Reference | Per serving and per 100 g, both mandatory | Per 100 g mandatory |
| Composition data | FSANZ dataset | National tables (BLS, CIQUAL, CoFID …) |
Protein sits in second place, not sixth. Sodium is the figure the panel asks for, not salt divided by 2.5. And the data this page uses is the Australian dataset — which matters, because an Australian label built on German values is a label built on a different country’s food supply.
Where the law allows a calculation at all
You do not have to send every product to a laboratory. Standard 1.2.8—5 of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code accepts a calculation, and names the routes:
“… the average quantity of a nutrient … may be determined by … a calculation from the average quantity of the nutrients in the ingredients used”
That is exactly what happens above: each ingredient contributes its own values, weighted by its mass, and the sum is divided back to 100 g. The word that carries the responsibility is average — the figure has to be representative of what you actually sell, and that is a judgement about your recipe and your suppliers, not about the arithmetic.
What the calculation does not do
- No cooking loss. A loaf that goes into the oven at 1,000 g and comes out at 870 g has lost water, and every value per 100 g rises accordingly. The calculator works with the weights you enter.
- No serving column. An Australian panel needs both columns, and the serving size is your declaration. The panel calculator adds it.
- No rounding to three significant figures. Deliberately — rounding twice is how figures drift.
- No allergens. Schedule 9 names them, and they come from the ingredients rather than from the nutrient values.
From these figures to a finished panel
- Calculate the averages here.
- Correct for cooking loss, if your process has any.
- Lay the panel out in the Schedule 12 format and round to three significant figures — the panel calculator does both.
- Add everything else the pack needs: name, ingredient list, allergens, date marking, country of origin.
Frequently asked questions
Which food composition data does an Australian label use?
The FSANZ dataset, which is what this page works with. Standard 1.2.8—5 allows a calculation from the nutrients in the ingredients used.
Why kilojoules and not calories?
Standard 1.2.8—6(1)(d) makes kilojoules mandatory and calories optional — the opposite of the United States.
Sodium or salt?
Sodium, in milligrams. Salt is sodium multiplied by 2.5, so the two are never interchangeable.
Does this page apply the rounding of the Code?
No, on purpose — the three-significant-figure rounding belongs to the panel.
Does cooking loss change the figures?
Yes, and this page does not model it. The values are for the ingredients as weighed.
Is a panel always required?
Not always — Standard 1.2.8—5 and Standard 1.2.1—8 decide it, and it depends on the food.
Nutrient values from the FSANZ Nutrition Panel Calculator dataset (CC BY 4.0). Wording quoted from the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, Standard 1.2.8 (F2015L00395, version of 29 October 2024). The calculated figures are averages of the ingredients as entered; whether they are representative of what you sell, and whether your food needs a panel at all, depends on the food. This page is information, not legal advice — the responsibility for a label stays with the business that puts the food on the market.