Recipe nutrition breakdown is wrong

eatdirtyeatclean

I added a banana bread recipe which contains 1 tsp of salt, (500mg). The bananas, unsalted butter, egg, and walnuts add 84mg of sodium. Those are the only ingredients with sodium.
The loaf is set to serve 8, so sodium breakdown should be 584/8. But the app says a slice contains 236.3mg.
What's going on with the recipe nutrition info?

ElizabethHanrahan

Everything has some sodium. The baking powder and baking soda have a lot of sodium since that is what they are made of, my soda says 160 mg and the powder says 95. Even flour has some natural sodium in it. Unless you have high blood pressure or have been told by your doctor to lower your sodium, I wouldn't worry about it.

eatdirtyeatclean

Thanks for your reply!
Accounting for the sodium in baking soda still only amounts to 93mg/slice.
I don't need a low salt diet, but I don't know what else is miscalculated in the recipe by the app. I can't spend time rechecking the math for every ingredient in a recipe - I could do that by hand in a notebook, what's the point of this feature in the app if it's wrong. The app says I put over 2000mg of sodium in the recipe and that's very incorrect.
It makes me wonder if all the nutrition info is wrong and useless.

cwolfman13

Did you use the recipe builder or just select some random recipe from the database?

If you just selected some random recipe, it's not your recipe.

If you used the recipe builder, vet the entries you used from the database to create the recipe as it is likely that you have one or more items selected that are incorrect...you need to vet database entries for accuracy...most are user created and are just wrong...

I found an entry for a hard boiled egg once and it said it has 43 grams of carbs...vet your entries...

eatdirtyeatclean

I used the in-app recipe builder and scanned ingredients for accuracy when possible and double checked the serving sizes and info for ingredients I added by browsing because the scanner couldn't find them. And I've since gone back into the recipe editor to double check the info for each ingredient and they look right.

eatdirtyeatclean

Ok, my bad, the app says 1 tsp of baking soda equals 1258.6 mg of sodium, and google confirmed. So ... sheesh! Glad I don't have to watch salt. I had no idea how much sodium was in baking soda.
Thanks again.

eatdirtyeatclean

I just looked up how much sodium is in 1 tsp salt, according USDA its 2,325.5 mg. All the salt entries I found said 1 tsp = 500mg - which is what my recipe ingredient list says ... so there's far more sodium than the app calculated! Crap.

cmriverside

Try this:

Spices - Salt, table

It is in the database at 2325/tsp

HeidiCooksSupper

I bought Ener-G sodium-free baking powder and baking soda from Amazon and it works fine. Definitely cuts of sodium in baked goods.

(P.s.: Arguably, we should all, especially those of us who are overweight, limit our sodium intake because doing so not only lowers blood pressure but helps prevent development of high blood pressure.)