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Adding exact amount of ingredients used in a recipe

suhe78
suhe78 Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Good morning all. I just got this app and I'm trying to find the nutrition face son a oatmeal cookie I made and I can't enter the amount of ingredients I used for recipe. I gives me the values per serving not what it's added. Thanks in advance

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  • Smccabe8
    Smccabe8 Posts: 129 Member
    Add the whole recipe under the "Recipies" tab, then add how many servings the recipe makes. It will give you the amount of calories per cookie.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,131 Member
    What Paiger816 said, but also from the OP it sounds like you don't understand that you can change the quantity of food when you log it -- you don't always have to eat and log exactly one serving, based on whatever the default serving size of the entry is. For example, if you wanted to enter 1/4 cup oats, and the database entry you wanted to use said that a serving size was 1/2 cup oats, you could just change the 1 in the serving size field to 0.5.

    Also, although my example was in cups (volume), it's best to get a food scale and use grams (weight) to measure your solids, if possible.
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