With HFSS compliance becoming a legal requirement from January 2026, food businesses must clearly understand and manage which menu items are classified as High Fat, Sugar and Salt (HFSS). This has direct implications for menu design, promotions, pricing, and customer communications.
What HFSS means for businesses:
HFSS classification determines whether a menu item can be promoted or featured. Non-compliance creates legal, financial, and reputational risk, particularly for multi-site operators who need consistent, auditable data at recipe level.
How HFSS is calculated:
HFSS scores are calculated using nutritional values already held in the PW system (energy, saturated fat, sugar, salt, fibre, protein, fruit/veg content). These inputs are combined into a scoring model that produces a rating or score indicating whether an item is HFSS.
Why this should be built into Procure Wizard:
All required nutritional data already exists within the recipes module
HFSS scoring can therefore be calculated automatically without additional customer input
Displaying a clear HFSS score/rating per recipe would allow operators to remain compliant, make informed menu decisions, and support downstream customer-facing requirements
Competitors such as Nutritics already provide HFSS scoring within their platforms. With the launch of PW2 and the new Recipes module, this functionality becomes a critical capability rather than a nice to have.
Customer value:
Supports legal compliance ahead of 2026
Reduces reliance on external nutrition tools
Enables faster, safer menu changes
Adding HFSS scoring at recipe level is low friction (data already exists), high impact, and increasingly non-optional. Building this into Procure Wizard now ensures customers remain compliant, competitive, and confident as regulations tighten.
