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The Nutrition Database

Once the plug-in is installed, the main nutritional database window can be accessed from either the Nutrition menu, or the recipe box toolbar. The main window allows you to browse all of the nutritional items in the database as well as providing a source for the mappings between nutritional database items and your ingredients.

The main window consists of 3 areas, the main list or nutritional items list, the nutritional data for the selected item and the mappings from the selected item to ingredient names.

To find information on a nutritional item in the database, you just need to type part of the nutrient name into the search field. As you type, results matching your search will be displayed. You can remove food groups from your search by right-clicking, or control-clicking on the nutritional item table and unchecking the category in the menu.

Once you find the nutritional item you are looking for, selecting it will display the nutrient values for the item in the nutritional information table. The data in this table shows the nutritional information for the item for every 100 grams.

Selecting the item will also show you the ingredients in your recipe library that currently map to the item. For instance, ingredients with a description of either "chopped nuts" or "nuts" might use "Nuts, mixed nuts, dry roasted, with peanuts, without salt added" in the nutritional calculations for a recipe.

Related Topics

The Mappings Table

The Nutritional Data per Serving HUD

The Calculation Details Window