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Calculating nutritional data for a recipe

To calculate the nutritional values for a recipe, you have to select the Calculated subsection in the Recipe editor Nutrition tab.

This component shows each ingredient, and it's equivalent nutrition database nutrient value. MacGourmet calculates nutritional values based on the ingredients that make up your recipes. To figure out the nutritional values for each ingredient, MacGourmet uses the concept of associating the ingredient name used in your recipe, and an equivalent nutritional database item, called a mapping. MacGourmet comes with many mappings predefined, and you'll see these marked with a "check" icon in the "Nutrition Food Item" column when you view one of your recipes. Values marked with a "question mark" icon have not been mapped yet, because a mapping between the ingredient description and a nutritional item wasn't found.

To correctly calculate the nutritional information, as many ingredients as possible must be mapped to nutritional items. To create a new mapping, you just need to find the nutritional item in the nutritional database that appears to match the ingredient, and drag and drop the item from the nutritional database to the ingredient row that needs to be mapped. Once you do this, the correct nutritional values will available to calculate the nutritional information for the ingredient.

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