Food database question

VioletaTal

Hi all, when I put in “rice, pork and vegetables “, I get one set of calories. When I put in “plov” (Middle Asian dish, delish), I get a totally different set of calories. How do you balance the wide differences of nutritional information for seemingly the same food?

Lietchi

You are better off avoiding generic entries like that, since you have no idea how much of each ingredient it contains.
Log the separate ingredients for better accuracy (for example using the recipe builder).

rosebarnalice

There could be many different recipes of "plov" using different vegetables as well as different quantities of rice, pork, and veggies.

If I were making this dish at tome, the way I would enter this would be to weigh my uncooked rice and look up "rice uncooked" and log that; weigh the uncooked raw pork and log that, and weigh each of the vegetables and enter them.

If this was a dish that I made regularly, I might use the "recipe builder" to create my own "Alice's Plov" so I could save my own version--and be sure to account for any added oil for sauteeing the veggies or sweet or salty spices used for seasoning and save that so I could log my own recipe and be more confident of its contents.

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kshama2001

If I'm not using the recipe builder I don't expect accuracy. Tonight I made the first bad dish from my Thai cookbook and am not going to bother entering it into the recipe builder. I'll just look for an entry for which the calories and macros seem close enough.