Explore your food
Nutrition facts can be overwhelming, so here's five of the most important pieces of information you might need to know about your recipe. Whether you're new to all this, or a pro who just needs a quick fact, this is a good place to start.
Visualize your recipe's composition. Each bar represents the relative amount of that nutrient by weight.1
Here are the basics. This is the most essential information about your ingredients, laid out in the same format you're used to seeing on packages of food.
This is a good place to start learning about the nutritional content of your ingredients before moving on to more detailed analysis.2
Vitamins and minerals play essential roles in the body, and deficiency in some can cause health problems that might not be evident for months or years.
Some important and common vitamins and minerals are listed here, and if your recipe is a significant source of a particular nutrient, it'll be labeled with a star.2, 3
All food provides some amount of energy the body can use, and that energy is measured in calories. Calories in food can be categorized as originating either from fats, carbohydrates, or protein.
You can learn how your foods and recipes fit into your particular diet by looking at where calories are coming from.
See how much each ingredient contributes to calories, carbs, fat, and protein.4 If you've made a revision to your recipe, you can also see how much each ingredient's value has changed.
See nutrition facts for each individual ingredient per serving.