Anything online that can calculate nutrional data accurately
Posted by NoIllusions on Jun 12, 2007 · Member since Dec 2006 · 476 posts
or one that I could buy. For example if I make a cookies or banana bread I would like to know how much a slice is.
Thanks!
I have looked for this and have not found it. I assume you are looking for one that you type the ingredients into and it adds them up? Not just a list of averages from similar recipes (those do exist) To get the nutritional value, you gotta add up each item yourself. It sounds more daunting than it is really. You can find the ingredients nutritional value on-line, but its also on the packaging. Hope this was helpful!
Diet Analysis Plus is a good program. I used it for a nutrition class I took--very informative! There are a lot of pre-entered foods, but you can also create "recipes" and analyze the nutritional info for each serving (you can set the serving size). You can do a weekly or monthy diet analysis and do a nutrient breakdown--I've been meaning to do this since becoming vegan. I just keep forgetting ::)
You can order it from Amazon for pretty cheap:
http://www.amazon.com/Diet-Analysis-Plus-7-0-1-Windows/dp/0495106186
http://www.nutritiondata.com/
there's soooo much to do on this site!!
calculate the nutrition of anything, even homemade stuff
it will graph it on a carb/fat/protien chart...
etc.....
:)
http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/recipe_analysis.php
This site is easy and free, and you can adjust the servings really easily. I hope this helps!
Oh thank you!!!!!! SO EASY. I just had a blast going through my recipe files to figure the calories. I really like to know how much calories something has...thank you!! :) :) and its cool to see the difference with oil or applesauce instead!
oh my goodness---this could be very, very bad...
gasp...must...go...look...........can't, control, myself! ;) Three years of looking for a site like that and someone puts the address in my lap!
oh my...soooooooooo easy.
However I am terrified of fattening things like coconut milk and peanut butter (which I LOVE) maybe :o it might help me to be able to enjoy these foods knowing its not so bad for you. I'm a total food control freak!
You can buy lite coconut milk--it has at least half the fat of regular, and I can't taste the difference in Indian or Asian-type dishes. No fear!
NoIllusions, are you new here? If so, welcome. adn if not, sorry for asking...
Diet Analysis Plus is a good program. I used it for a nutrition class I took--very informative! There are a lot of pre-entered foods, but you can also create "recipes" and analyze the nutritional info for each serving (you can set the serving size). You can do a weekly or monthy diet analysis and do a nutrient breakdown--I've been meaning to do this since becoming vegan. I just keep forgetting ::)
You can order it from Amazon for pretty cheap:
http://www.amazon.com/Diet-Analysis-Plus-7-0-1-Windows/dp/0495106186
I have that program from a nutrition class too, and while it is good at showing you the nutritional info of what you ate, the "make a recipe" function has a bug (assuming we both have the same edition of the program). I tried it and sometimes it seems as though it works, but sometimes I know it is off because it will tell me that a plate of stir fry has 2200 calories or something else that's obviously off. Sometimes it will completely forget that you added a recipe if you add something to it (that happened to me when I tried to see what happened if I added 1 tsp of cinnamon to my "recipe").
I have that program from a nutrition class too, and while it is good at showing you the nutritional info of what you ate, the "make a recipe" function has a bug (assuming we both have the same edition of the program). I tried it and sometimes it seems as though it works, but sometimes I know it is off because it will tell me that a plate of stir fry has 2200 calories or something else that's obviously off. Sometimes it will completely forget that you added a recipe if you add something to it (that happened to me when I tried to see what happened if I added 1 tsp of cinnamon to my "recipe").
Oh, weird. I never had a problem with it. It doesn't work for everything, though--I put a stew recipe in there that called for canned tomatoes and they only have info for normal canned tomatoes, not "no salt added", so the sodium info was WAY off. Did it come with the Understanding Nutrition textbook? That's a pretty good reference--tons of info on what recipes are good sources of what nutrients (and is very veg-friendly in terms of giving both plant and animal sources of nutrients).
I think it came with that book. I took the class two or three years ago so it's been a while. I liked the book too, it even had a section on vegetarianism. Maybe I have an older version of the program or it didn't install correctly or maybe I just didn't use it the right way... I use fitday.com to find out specific nutrition info about what I'm cooking.