calculating nutritional values of recipes

[ft14101]

When a recipe gives no nutritional values how do you determine them?

[DanielleWhite]

I use another app 'lifesum' to track my kilojoules and then transfer them to fitbit at the end of the day, having the extra step is a pain at times because if you miss a day you can't add it into fitbit. Lifesum allows you to create and save recipes and favourite foods and quickly access your most common foods. If you don't need to create recipes regularly you can also use spark recipes website - I don't use this much because its filled with American foods (I'm an Aussie). 

Hope this helps - good luck

[HelenaFitbit]

I've added recipes through MyFitnessPal's recipe builder, it gives you the estimated portion calories and nutritional value. I have found it very helpful 

[LilleB]

Hi DanielleWhite!

How do you transfer fra Lifesum to fitbit? 

Manually?

I have them both, and activities goes from Fitbit to Lifesum, but what I would prefer is that kcal moves from Lifesum to Fitbit 🙂

[Raviv]

If you don't want to use other websites, you can do it on the Fitbit food log page.  It sounds more complicated than it really is.

What I do is add all of the ingredients into Fitbit's food log in a temporarily unused area (like "After Dinner" when it's still noon or something) in the amounts that the recipe calls for.  So if it's homemade bread, I'm going to add 3 cups of bread flour, 1/3 cup of sugar and whatever else I throw into it for th whole recipe.

Once I do that, I know what the nutritional values are for the whole thing because the food log adds them all up for me - calories, fat, carbs, protein and sodium.  Then I weigh the whole thing on a food scale (less the container, of course).  After that, you can go one of two ways.

1) Grab a standard serving size (so, for instance, an average slice of that bread) and weigh that.  That weight divided by the total weight of the whole loaf is the % of nurients.  So if the whole loaf is 100 grams and the slice is 10 grams, the nutrition data for one slice is 1/10 of the amounts for the whole loaf.  I add that slice as a new food and save it as a favorite.

OR

2) I add the whole thing as a new food, noting the weight of the whole thing (again, minus the container, and saying "loaf" not "slice") and then each time I eat it, I weigh the amount I'm eating and enter it that way, in grams.  Probably easier with things like casseroles or soup where you're not taking the same amount every time.

Oh, and when you get all of the numbers in, obviously delete it from "After Dinner" or wherever you put all of the ingredients to calculate because you (hopefully) didn't eat the whole thing.