# 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

## 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.