Is there a way to edit calories?

N3onlights24
N3onlights24 Posts: 13 Member
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Hello,

I have added receipies to my Food database and it pulls the correct ingredients, but when I look at servings it will say something outlandish such as Servings 1 is 2870 calories per serving, so i have to adjust it, so if the reciepe serves 4, but 1 serving is 558 calories, I have to adjust it to say I had 5 servings so the calorie count is 574 which is closer to what 1 serving of calories would be.

Is there any other way to adjust this or am I doing something wrong?

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  • mspianomistress8598
    mspianomistress8598 Posts: 5 Member

    The initial calorie count it shows after adding the ingredients is 1 serving = the entire recipe. You edit this on the next page by putting in how many servings are in the recipe. Then when you enter this into your diary, you put how many actual servings you ate. It's not a perfect system and likely won't be exact, but it will be close. The

  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,152 Member

    You can enter the total weight of the finished recipe in grams as the number of servings. Then when you dish up your portion, enter the weight of your portion in grams as the number of servings you had.

    There may be a top limit on number of servings, so this may not work for a latge/heavy recipe.

    I prefer to set a number of servings such that the serving size is closer to something I might actually eat -- I do this by dividing the total weight by a rational number of servings and including the weight of a serving in the name of the recipe (e.g., rye bread, srvg = 43 g), and setting the related number of servings in the recipe calculator.

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