Amount per serving
How can I calculate the Amount Per Serving label in the nutrition facts.
Not basing it as a recipe where it is already stated but by ingredients. For example, I have a customized recipe, I want to know the amounts per serving based on my ingredients.
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You set it arbitrarily, although hopefully based on some reasonable single portion size. Once you have the serving size, you calculate the nutritional information based upon it.
There is some rumor of stronger regulation forthcoming in the US to make portion size claims on labels more realistic, but that is not the case at this time.
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What does it mean by amount per serving?
Serving size is the first piece of information listed on the label. This is the amount of food that is typically eaten at one time. The size is in a basic household measurement, such as pieces, cups, or ounces. For example, a serving may be 7 potato chips or 1 cup of cereal.How do you calculate per serving?
Once you know how much the entire finished dish weighs, divide the weight by the number of servings, which is usually listed in the recipe ("serves six," or "serves eight," for example). Round the result to an easy-to-remember number to find the average serving size.What does it mean 1 serving?
A serving size is a standardized amount or measurement of food. A portion is the amount of food served or consumed in a single eating occasion. For example, bagels and muffins are often sold in sizes that constitute more than 2-4 servings, but consumers eat the whole thing, thinking they have eaten one serving.What is Per serving food?
A portion is how much food you choose to eat at one time, whether in a restaurant, from a package, or at home. A serving, or serving size , is the amount of food listed on a product's Nutrition Facts label, or food label (see Figure 1 below). Different products have different serving sizes.Nutrition Labels 101: What is a serving size and how do I calculate calories?
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Answer 2
You have two problems here, one easy and one hard. The easy one is "how many servings are in this recipe?" As others have said, the recipe may make 36 cookies but is that 36 servings, or 12, or some other number? That is the easy problem in my opinion. Many recipes say "serves 8" or "serves 6" and you could work out the total numbers for if someone ate the entire batch, then calculate "I can't eat more than 2 of these" or "I should eat at least half of this to get enough protein" as needed.
The harder part is taking raw numbers like how much protein is in an egg or how many calories are in a cup of flour and working out how to combine them. Say you are frying chicken in 1/4 cup of oil. You certainly don't add the oil calories to the chicken calories - not all the oil ends up in the dish. But if you add oil to a cake batter, you will add the oil calories in to the calculation. Some forms of cooking affect some nutrients, so perhaps the Vitamin C in a long cooked fruit dish is not the same as the Vitamin C in the raw fruit you added to it. I don't know a general solution or technique for dealing with this. It depends what nutritional facts you care about (calories? fibre? fat? Vitamin C? B? E?) and how you are cooking the food. In addition if you are using "one apple" or "two carrots" you won't have the same precision as "100g of diced carrot" so your recipe may not be the same every time.
If you just want to know roughly the calories, just add up the calories of the raw ingredients and make some adjustments for ingredients that don't end up in your mouth. Beyond that I don't think it's possible.
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