How to calculate the calorie content of a ready-made dish: easier than it seems at first glance

04.05.2024 17:25

Every person who has decided to switch to healthy eating, lose weight or, conversely, gain weight, needs to learn to control calorie consumption.

At first, this may indeed seem like something complicated, but with kitchen scales and an app installed on your phone, the task becomes much easier.

We suggest you figure out how to calculate the calorie content of prepared meals.

To determine how many calories a dish will weigh, use kitchen scales to weigh all the products you plan to use. It is better to do this raw.

After this, using any application suitable for this purpose or a calorie table downloaded from the Internet, find the calorie content of the products used.

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Now you need to multiply the amount of the ingredient in the recipe by its caloric value. 100 g of the product is taken as a unit, so if you put 200 g, the caloric value should be multiplied by 2, and if 20 g - then by 0.2.

As a result of simple mathematical calculations, you will receive information about the nutritional value of each ingredient.

All that remains is to add up the calories of all the products, and you will receive information about the finished dish.

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Elena Shimanovskaya Author: Elena Shimanovskaya Editor of Internet resources