Calculate Energy and Nutritional Value of a Meal
Calculate Energy and Nutritional Value of a Meal
- Start by listing the ingredients used in a meal and their quantities in grammes to calculate its energy and nutritional value.
- Use a reliable food composition database to find the nutritional values like energy, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and micronutrients per 100 grammes of each ingredient.
- Adjust the nutritional values to correspond to the quantities used in your meal by multiplying the values per 100 grammes by the ingredient’s weight in grammes and dividing by 100.
- Sum up the adjusted values for all ingredients to get the total energy and nutritional contents of the meal.
- This will help evaluate the meal’s dietary suitability and its role in a balanced diet.