Create your first food nutritional table with SATN

Follow these eight steps to log in, register a product with its ingredients, and generate a compliant Colombian nutritional table ready to export.

This guide walks you through creating your first nutritional table in SATN. By the end, you will have a fully calculated product with a regulation-ready nutritional table you can export to Excel or include in a Word report. The whole process typically takes under five minutes once your ingredient data is in the system.

1. Log in

   Open SATN in your browser. On the login screen, enter your document number and password, then click Ingresar.

   If you do not have credentials yet, contact your account administrator. If you have forgotten your password, click ¿Olvidaste tu contraseña? below the login form — see Password recovery for the full flow.

2. Navigate to Products

   After logging in, you land on the Dashboard. From the main navigation, click Productos to open the product list. This page shows all products currently in your account, grouped by type.

3. Create a new Unitary Product

   Click Crear producto and select Producto Unitario from the dropdown. A unitary product represents a single recipe with one ingredient list. If your product is a blend of separately calculated components, see Mix products. If it is a bundle of finished products sold together, see Combo products.

4. Fill in client information

   Select the customer this product belongs to from the dropdown list. If the customer does not appear, go to Clientes and add them first, then return to create the product.

   Assigning a customer is required before you can save a product. Each product is associated with exactly one customer.

5. Fill in product details

   Complete the product information form:

   • Product name — the commercial name as it will appear on the label.
   • Commercial presentation — the package format or size description (e.g., “Bolsa 200 g”).
   • Serving size — the declared serving in grams (e.g., 30).
   • Total amount — the total net weight of the product in grams (e.g., 200).

   SATN uses the serving size to calculate per-serving nutritional values alongside the required per 100 g values. Make sure both figures match what you plan to declare on the label.

6. Select ingredients and quantities

   In the Ingredientes section, search for each ingredient by name. SATN searches the ICBF food composition database as you type. Select the matching ingredient and enter the quantity used in grams.

   Repeat for each ingredient in the recipe. The order you add them does not affect the calculation.

   If an ingredient is not in the ICBF database, you can add a custom ingredient with manual nutrient values from Ingredientes → Agregar ingrediente personalizado.

   If your product undergoes significant moisture loss during cooking or processing (for example, a baked or fried item), enable Corrección por pérdida de humedad and enter the moisture loss percentage. SATN adjusts the nutrient concentrations accordingly.

7. Save and review the nutritional table

   Click Guardar. SATN calculates all nutritional values and opens the product detail view. Scroll down to the Tabla Nutricional section to review:

   • Calories (kcal) per 100 g and per serving
   • Total fat, saturated fat, trans fat
   • Total carbohydrates, dietary fiber, total sugars
   • Protein
   • Sodium
   • Vitamins and minerals present in your ingredients

   Any applicable regulatory warning seals — such as Alto en sodio or Exceso en grasas saturadas — are shown automatically below the table.

   If a nutrient value looks unexpected, verify the ingredient quantities you entered are in grams and that the correct ICBF entry was selected. Different preparations of the same food (raw vs. cooked) have separate entries in the database.

8. Export your results

   From the product detail view, you have two export options:

   • Descargar tabla Excel — downloads a formatted Excel file with the nutritional table, ready to attach to a technical dossier or share with a client.
   • Generar informe Word — generates a complete Word document that includes the product information, nutritional table, ingredient list, and any warning seals that apply.

   For details on what each export contains and how to customize the output, see Nutritional table Excel export and Product report Word.