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How to calculate nutritional value for food?

  • 18-11-2009 10:41pm
    #1
    Slugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,282 ✭✭✭


    I'm on a diet atm (for weightlifting), and i've a diet I can work around. I want to start getting more inventive with my food, but I'll need to calculate the NV of my food. To do this, do I just add the values, or is there anything else I need to take into consideration?


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  • #2
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Moved to Nutrition & Diet.


  • #3
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    I'm not 100% clear on what exactly you are asking but i will give an example that hopefully helps.

    Say you are having a meal that has 150gm chicken breast with 50gms pasta then to get the nutrirional value of the meal you simply add the nutritional value of the chiken and the pasta to get the overall value.

    Exact same if you had toast with jam and butter, simply add the NV of all three to get the overall NV of the meal/snack.

    This is what you were asking?


  • #4
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Open a free account with a website like www.fitday.com and just enter in the food you eat (or are thinking about eating) and it will add it all up for you, and give you breakdowns of protein, fat, carbs, fiber and even individual vitamins and minerals.

    You may need to add some things as custom foods. Irish salmon tends to be higher fat than the standard on Fitday, and Irish beef is usually leaner.


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