the effects of mixing ingredients on nutritional statistics

ruggierokj

Hello, can someone educate me on whether recipes are (roughly) additive in terms of calories, fat, protein, etc? For example, I made the equivalent of 25 cups of sauce last night, and I recorded it's nutritional content simply by entering into the system everything that I put into the sauce--which, in effect, is the same thing as literally adding up all the calories, proteins, fiber, carbs (etc) together to get a total, and then dividing that by 25 to get per-cup nutrion stats. Is this the right way to do it, approximately? I guess I don't have a good sense for whether and how much these things can change when you start mixing them all together and stirring them up...

RoAnn

I don't know if that is the right way but that is also how I do it.

quinnybear

thats how i do it. you add up everything that went in to the batch, then divide to get the amount per serving. adding ingredients and stirring them together won't change anything.

khskr1

That's how I do it!

DrBorkBork

spark people has a nutrition calculator. If you signup with the site (it's free), you'll get access to it

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/

ruggierokj

Just wanted to say thank you for the helpful comments! A friend commented that there might be some small (not meaningful) effect attributable to cooking due to evaporation of water.