September 23, 2014 - 2:18pm
Where do I get nutritional information?
Hi all,
Does anybody know how to obtain the nutritional information for a personal recipe?
Is there a place on the net where you can inter your recipe ingredients and get a nutritional spit out?
Allrecipes.com used to do this for your personal recipes but I just got back from there and they stopped doing it. None of my recipes contain this nutritional information anymore.
Thank you,
Rick
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Upu can start with the US department of Agriculture; http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/
Ford
I use myfitnesspal to calculate it. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
You need to create an account to do this. There's a section where you can enter your own recipes. What I do is weigh the bread (in grams) after it has cooled, and add that as the number of servings, so 1g=1 serving. Then if you have an 80g slice, you put 80 servings of it into your food log. It's easier than it sounds. Alternatively, you can eyeball servings.
I usually ignore water, salt and yeast from the recipe, since they have minimal/no nutritional value (assuming you're not tracking sodium intake, of course). So often all I have to add is the total recipe flour. Their database has most brands and types of flour, usually user-submitted.
This assumes that the flour's nutritional value doesn't significantly change during fermentation. I know there's a lot of processes going on, including breaking down of starches into sugars, but I'm not sure how relevant this is.
edit: technically you don't even need the site to do this. You could work it out by hand using Ford's link above (which looks very useful), just using the same approach I described.