Can someone please confirm calorie count for an entered recipe

Koralai
Koralai Posts: 3 Member
edited November 18 in Recipes
The recipe I entered was for a bread machine white bread. I scanned Bar codes for most of the ingredients.
2/3 cup water
2 cups white flour
1 tbsp imperial margerine
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp fleishamans instant yeast

Serving size as 1 loaf

It came up with a calorie count of 197 calories per serving which is the whole loaf. Can this be right?

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,232 Member
    Nope? Definitely not. Go back to the recipe and check each of the ingredients, one of them will be very wrong.
  • NewMeSM75
    NewMeSM75 Posts: 971 Member
    I entered your recipe in the recipe builder and noticed that it did not calculate the flour correctly. Go in and replace it with either all purpose flour, bread flour or self rising then check your numbers.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    Koralai wrote: »
    The recipe I entered was for a bread machine white bread. I scanned Bar codes for most of the ingredients.
    2/3 cup water
    2 cups white flour
    1 tbsp imperial margerine
    2 tbsp sugar
    1 tsp salt
    1 tsp fleishamans instant yeast

    Serving size as 1 loaf

    It came up with a calorie count of 197 calories per serving which is the whole loaf. Can this be right?

    The flour alone is in the neighborhood of 900 calories.
  • DaintyWhisper
    DaintyWhisper Posts: 221 Member
    edited May 2017
    I don't know exactly how the scanner thing works, but it seems like maybe it only accounted for 1 serving of the ingredients. As it is listed on the nutrition label. For the flour that I use, that's usually 1/4th of a cup (30g) in the range of 110 calories. That might explain why it gave such a low calorie amount for the whole bread. The whole loaf should be 1,000 - 1,100 calories, I would estimate.

  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    DaintyWhisper wrote: »
    I don't know exactly how the scanner thing works, but it seems like maybe it only accounted for 1 serving of the ingredients. As it is listed on the nutrition label. For the flour that I use, that's usually 1/4th of a cup (30g) in the range of 110 calories. That might explain why it gave such a low calorie amount for the whole bread. The whole loaf should be 1,000 - 1,100 calories, I would estimate.

    that is probably highly likely
  • NewMeSM75
    NewMeSM75 Posts: 971 Member
    I noticed if I import recipes, the calorie count for ingredients are off at times. Have to really check through the recipe.
  • Koralai
    Koralai Posts: 3 Member
    edited May 2017
    I changed the flour to all purpose flour and the calorie count looks better. 1009. I didn't think that first one could be right. Thanks all.
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