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Allrecipes.com v MFP - Calorie Count

angf0679
angf0679 Posts: 1,121 Member
edited November 2024 in Recipes
I know calorie counts can differ by a little, but this one wasn't a little.

I made the Honey-Garlic Slow Cooker Chicken today. Allrecipies.com says its 325 calories per serving. When I add on to MFP using the web link to add it to my recipes, it came up as 492 calories. That's a big difference!

If you get a big difference like that, what is the more accurate one you would go by?

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  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    The big problem I have with allrecipes, specifically chicken, is that nowhere could I find what allrecipes considers "one chicken breast" - i.e. how many grams of chicken are they considering? Chicken breasts aren't all one size, particularly if some people are trimming off the tenders and others not.

  • hayleymawr
    hayleymawr Posts: 27 Member
    I'd assume mfp is the more accurate. Ever more so if you're weighing the ingredients and entering accurate quantities into the recipe
  • sthoma13
    sthoma13 Posts: 63 Member
    I always just input recipes into MFP instead of following what my book or website says- sometimes you really have to watch the matches for ingredients that MFP makes though when you import a web recipe. For example, it always gives me some crazy high calorie match for garlic, when I know that a clove of garlic is a negligible calorie amount.
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    Yeah I think there's a 2,200 calorie banana sitting in the database, too. Almost hit the roof with how many calories it thought were in my banana cake recipe :smiley:
  • neohdiver
    neohdiver Posts: 738 Member
    rankinsect wrote: »
    Yeah I think there's a 2,200 calorie banana sitting in the database, too. Almost hit the roof with how many calories it thought were in my banana cake recipe :smiley:

    The match algorithm also believes that stevia is cauliflower. That was the most bizarre match it has come up with for me.
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