MenuSano

RATING:

4.3

(45)

About MenuSano

MenuSano is an easy-to-use nutrition analysis and recipe costing software that caters to food services, food manufacturing, healthcare, and education industries. With MenuSano, users can analyze recipes, nutritional values, and recipe costs, and create nutrition fact labels. MenuSano offers built-in Canadian, USDA, and UK ingredient databases. In addition, users can add their custom ingredients with custom names to personalize and simplify the search. Instantly perform nutrition analysis on created recipes and generate compliant nutritional facts labels. Combine recipes and ingredients to create menu items that can be further categorized - such as starters or mains.

MenuSano Pricing

Basic Package: $35/month (billed monthly) or $25/month (billed annually) Pro Package: $52/month (billed monthly) or $42/month (billed annually) Premium Package: $799/year (billed annually) We Do It For You: $125 per label

Starting price: 

CA$35.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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MenuSano Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for MenuSano

1 - 5 of 45 Reviews

User Profile

SHAILJA

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2023

Perfect for Your Dietary Information Needs

I've had a good experience with MenuSano. It's easy to use, and I like the helpful nutrition info. Although there are a few things to improve, overall, it's been positive.

PROS

The database is incredibly helpful, making tasks more efficient and streamlined

CONS

The nutrition info sometimes isn't the newest. It costs more than some other programs, and I wish the database had more stuff in it.

Vendor Response

Thank you

Replied December 2023

Andreas

Higher Education, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2020

Overall very good product

The software helps us a great deal to achieve our goals of producing healthy alternative desserts.

PROS

Extensive data base of ingredients. Options on customized labels. Ease of use.

CONS

Category section could be more intuitive, more organized. Perhaps having color tabs, more folder like.

Reason for choosing MenuSano

First of all it is Canadian and has the Canadian food guide information and labels. Easy to use. I also enter my own custom ingredients which is easy to do.

Reasons for switching to MenuSano

Food smart was an old outdated software which does not exist anymore.

Vendor Response

Thanks kindly for the review, Andreas. I appreciate the comment about categories. We will add this to our roadmap. We are happy to know that you are creating healthy deserts with MenuSano :) Happy baking, Christine

Replied September 2020

Kae

Consumer Goods, 2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed February 2023

Product development & MenuSano

I needed to guide my product development based on some nutritional guidelines. Once the guidelines were established, it was easy to create and modify recipes to achieve the results needed.

PROS

It is extremely cost effective for the work that we were trying to accomplish

CONS

The database at times seem to have glitches. Support is always available to work through the issues.

Reason for choosing MenuSano

Cost - it was the most cost effective for the work that I am doing.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for your review. Your feedback is valuable as we continue improving MenuSano and providing you with the best experience. Warm Regards, Kunal

Replied February 2023

Trevor

Food Production, 1 employee

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed December 2020

Simple Interface, Good Feature Set, Excellent Price

The MenuSano customer service reps are prompt, friendly and very good at solving problems (my one problem). And then the software got changed so that no one else would have that issue. That's pretty amazing.

PROS

The software made it quick and easy to produce accurate, professional looking nutrition labels. Customizing the way the information is displayed was a welcome feature as well.

CONS

It would be nice if there was a way to add a barcode or QR code to the label. But don't let that limitation be a deal breaker. This software, for the price works very well.

Reason for choosing MenuSano

The Genesis R&D Food Labeling was WAY over my budget as a start-up. I chose not to demo it when I found out the price as there was no point. Once I am bigger, I might look at it for other functionality. But likely not.

Vendor Response

Thanks, Trevor for your review! We are thrilled to be part of your success! Kind regards, Christine

Replied December 2020

Quinn

Food Production, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2023

Does what we need

Overall it has everything we need to make NFTs for our packaging that follow Canadian laws. There are a bunch of little things they could do to make the product a bit more user friendly but it does the job we need for a decent price.

PROS

Overall the product is pretty easy to use. It can be time consuming if multiple recipes go into one final product. We only use it to get NFTs. I like that you can choose different shapes/sizes. The database is a good size and has a lot of the products we use but not all. I like that you can add custom ingredients though.

CONS

My main gripe is how slow it can be to look at different recipes. I wish it would default to just showing you the whole list of your recipes, not just short little pages and then you have to search for it. Then you have to click on the name of it and then click edit. I'd much rather have it default to editing when you click the title. It's very slow when you're flipping back and forth between recipes. It would be nice if you could also toggle an "autosave" of the recipes or at the very least have it ask something like "are you sure you want to leave this page? You haven't saved your recipe" because it's very easy to forget to save it.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for your review. Your feedback is valuable as we continue improving MenuSano and providing you with the best service. Warm Regards, Kunal

Replied February 2023