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Recipe nutrition calculator

Paste the ingredients of any recipe and get its calories, protein, carbs and fat per serving. Free, with no account.

Amounts in grams, ounces, pounds, cups, spoons or pieces all work. Up to 60 ingredients. Nothing you paste is saved.

Your numbers appear here

Calories, protein, carbs and fat for one serving and for the whole recipe, with a line for every ingredient showing what it was counted as.

  1. Step 1

    Paste the ingredients

    One on each line, as the recipe is written: grams, cups, spoons or pieces.

  2. Step 2

    Say how many it serves

    The total is divided by the servings. You can change the number afterwards.

  3. Step 3

    Read every line

    Each ingredient shows the food and the weight that were counted, so nothing is hidden.

Questions about the numbers

How does the recipe calculator work?
It reads each line for an amount, a unit and a food, looks the food up in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's FoodData Central tables, turns the amount into grams, adds everything up and divides by the number of servings.
How accurate are the numbers?
They are estimates. Foods differ by brand and season, and the calculator counts ingredients as they go into the pot: it cannot know how much fat is poured off or left in the pan. Every line shows the food and the weight that were counted, and a line whose amount had to be estimated is marked.
What is left out of the count?
Anything added to taste with no amount, such as salt, pepper or cooking spray. Oil that a line says is for deep-frying, because most of it stays in the pan. Butter or oil with no amount at all. And an ingredient that could not be found counts as 0 and is marked, so you know the total is too low.
Can I use cups and spoons, or only weights?
Both. Cups and spoons are converted with the weight of a cup of that food where the USDA tables give one. Where they do not, the line is marked as estimated.
Does it allow for bones?
For a whole chicken, turkey or duck and for chicken legs, drumsticks and wings bought by weight, only the share that is eaten is counted, using USDA's figures. Other cuts weighed with the bone are counted in full, and the line says so.
Does it know lean mince from regular?
Yes. A line such as “93% lean ground beef”, “80/20 ground beef” or “5% fat beef mince” is counted with the USDA values for that grade. Without a grade, ground beef is counted at about 10% fat.
Is it free, and is my recipe saved?
It is free and needs no account. What you paste is used for the calculation and is not stored. If you want to keep a recipe, you can add it to Ma Kitchen with a free account.

Food values come from USDA FoodData Central, which is in the public domain. They are estimates for planning, not medical or dietary advice.

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