All Recipes Nutritional info beware

Dobsaya

All recipes is one of my all time favorite places to get recipes. But the nutritional info on many recipes is way off. For instance I was making morning glory muffins and substituted a banana for eggs, applesauce for oil and took out the nuts and my recipe had a higher calorie count than the original. Another thing to beware of is serving size. I was making a spinach casserol out of 10 ounce box of frozen spinach. They said calories per serving 96 however this was supposed to feed 24 people. Potatoe recipe the same thing 200 calories per serving but 8 small potatoes were supposed to feed 16 people. So if you got a regular serving size, you would be way over on calories.

GURLEY_GIRL3

THANKS FOR INFO.

ouryear002

Good reminder for any recipes. I think many people have double portions, because that is what is a reasonable amount. Even eating well, it is unlikely that a recipe serving 4 will be enough for my family of four!

jlsAhava

Love that site. Thanks for the warning!

lemanda

I've noticed this too. Good to share the word!

Dobsaya

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wolfchild59

This a good general warning for all websites that give nutritional info for their recipes. I've yet to find a single one (All Recipes, food.com, Hungry Girl, Spark People, etc) that the nutritionals actually ended up matching what it was when I entered it into the recipe calculator.

It's because unless the recipe lists specific brand names and you use those exact brand names on every single product, there's no way it can match. And I even found a recipe recently on Hungry Girl that, even when I input the exact brands that she used, the sodium content that I was getting based off of the labels was way higher than what she had listed, and the calories were lower.

So I always enter the recipe, with the local brands/ingredients that I know I'll be using before I even go shopping for the anything anymore.

paroxysm

I've never gotten a recipe off any of the sites (including skinnytaste, 400caloriesorless, hungrygirl, etc) to match even when I use exactly as they say and portion properly. The calories are always higher when you calculate it out-- usually the fat content is higher too. I tend to use calculate by hand and then put it into Sparks recipe calculator and this one also just to see. The biggest loser recipes have been off by anywhere from 40cals a serving all the way to 100 also!