How Do You Figure The Nutritional Values For Homemade Recipes?
You don’t have to eat only prepackaged foods when dieting just because they come with the nutritional values printed on the boxes. Using a few calculations and the nutrient value charts provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), you can determine the nutritional values for any of your homemade recipes. You can find out how much vitamin C is in grandma’s apple pie or the amount of protein in Uncle Bob’s pork ribs. Type the name of your ingredient in the online, interactive USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search) to determine the nutritional value for the amount of each of the ingredients in your recipe. Enter the total amount of each ingredient used in the recipe. Write the amounts of the nutrients you wish to concentrate on next to the ingredient in the recipe. Add up the totals for each nutrient in the ingredients in the recipe. For instance, add the amounts of vitamin C for the ingredients separately from the number o
