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does this add up?

lyoill
lyoill Posts: 59
in Food and Nutrition
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

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  • ChrisM8971
    ChrisM8971 Posts: 1,067 Member
    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
    AwesomeGuy37 Posts: 436 Member
    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
    donniesaurous Posts: 176 Member
    (1202/1581 ) X 400 = 304.111 pretty spot on
  • lyoill
    lyoill Posts: 59
    Thanks so much everyone!

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