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Creating a food with negative calories/macros?

sarah2002
sarah2002 Posts: 77 Member
edited February 26 in Recipes
Does anyone know how to do this? I am making my own yogurt, and need to subtract the calories/macros from the whey drained off. I can manually do it I suppose, but then I will have to do the math every single time I make yogurt as the amount of liquid drained off is different each time.

Thanks! :)

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  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,832 Member
    I can't remember all the sources I used to come to some numbers but I probably included stuff from the USDA site and other sources and made some assumptions/guesses.

    I put them in the food database as "Homemade - Greek yogurt (SH fat-free drained)" and "Homemade - Whey From Southern Home Fat Free Plain Yogurt"

    Let me know if the database won't let you see them and I'll copy the numbers out for you.
  • sarah2002
    sarah2002 Posts: 77 Member
    Thanks. The problem I am having is that I am unable to subtract the whey from the yogurt recipe. For every 8 oz of yogurt mix, I need to subtract 59 calories, and I would like to subtract fat/protein/sodium/etc as well.
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