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How does one figure out a serving size on the discover recipes?

sarahfayesound
sarahfayesound Posts: 2 Member
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I’m trying to figure out the recipes if they are for example serves 4 but when it logs it says 1 serving. How do you know? By weight?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,277 Member
    sarahfayesound wrote: »
    I’m trying to figure out the recipes if they are for example serves 4 but when it logs it says 1 serving. How do you know? By weight?

    Based on the calories/nutrition, it looks as if it logs one serving of the 4 in the recipe, unless we change the serving count to 1.5 or 0.5 or 2 or whatever.
  • sarahfayesound
    sarahfayesound Posts: 2 Member
    Sorry this going to sound silly but I guess I need to ask the question better so rather: how does one figure out the weight for one serving? Make a pot and divide by 4 to acquire 4 servings?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,277 Member
    sarahfayesound wrote: »
    Sorry this going to sound silly but I guess I need to ask the question better so rather: how does one figure out the weight for one serving? Make a pot and divide by 4 to acquire 4 servings?

    Yes. Anything cooked loses or gains varying amounts of weight while cooking (water absorbed or released) so the only way to know the total weight is to weigh the finished product.
  • Seaturtle517
    Seaturtle517 Posts: 1 Member
    edited September 2024
    This is my question too. Sorry if this was answered as I’m new. If I look at a recipe it gives the nutritional information for one serving then will say, for example, entire recipe serves 4. I get that part, but I don’t see where it says what one serving actually is (like a serving is 1 cup or 50g etc…). Or do I just make my best guess based on how many servings it makes? Sorry this is so long but thanks for any help!

    Edit: Nevermind I see the answer above :)

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