does this add up?

lyoill

I made a recipe tonight with the recipe builder and used weight as a way to work out the calories of my portion

the total calories of my recipe that I put into recipe builder was 1202 calories
the cooked weight of this meal was 1581 grams
my portion was 400 grams ( yes I feel very full, lots of veggies....)
I worked my portion out to be 300 calories does this seem right? I'm bad at maths and I'm not sure my formula makes sense...

cheers

ChrisM8971

Looks about right to me

I tend to round things up in my head when doing the checks

So cooked weight approximately 1600 g and total calories approximately 1200 cal

400 g is 1/4 of 1600
300 cal is 1/4 1200

So pretty darn close

AwesomeGuy37

Yeah, just remember calories per gram or calories/grams.
1202/1581 = 0.76 cal/g
So 400 grams would be 304 calories. (400*0.76)

ETA: If you used the recipe editor, just fool around with the decimal number of the servings until you get it to the calories you calculated. It is close to 1/3 the recipe which is 0.333

donniesaurous

(1202/1581 ) X 400 = 304.111 pretty spot on

lyoill

Thanks so much everyone!