New Recipe Analyzer

We just updated the Recipe Analyzer. The major innovation is the ability to use custom foods as ingredients.

We also tried to simplify the process of correcting unrecognized ingredients (try to mistype the serving size or ingredient name to see how we handle those cases).

It's clear to us that we still have to work on the following issues below, which will be corrected over the next couple of days:

• Ingredients will link to their nutrition label pages
• Easier process of linking recognized ingredients to a different food item
• Better print layout

Please let us know if you have any other suggestions or feedback.

Original Post by mchandonais:

Calorie counts are off.  1/4 cup of flaxseed meal should be 120 calories not over 200.  It is frustrating when I'm looking for accurate numbers to monitor my caloric intake. 

Measuring by volume isn't always accurate and it's easy to mismeasure by 80 calories for things like flaxseed meal. Weighing food is the most accurate way to monitor your calorie intake.

That makes a lot of sense.  Question, My Chobani Greek yogurt says a serving is 8 oz.. is that a cup?  or is that 8 oz weight??

Original Post by mchandonais:

That makes a lot of sense.  Question, My Chobani Greek yogurt says a serving is 8 oz.. is that a cup?  or is that 8 oz weight??

8 fluid ounces is a cup. 8 ounces is weight (226 grams).

THANK YOU!!!  I have been over eating a tad.... :)

I have recorded two separate recipes over the past week, and each time I finish the recipe comes up empty of ingrediants and 0 calories.  Very frustrating indeed!

Original Post by jaqw5:

I have recorded two separate recipes over the past week, and each time I finish the recipe comes up empty of ingrediants and 0 calories.  Very frustrating indeed!

This happens to me if I don't select the meal before I try to log the recipe.

What's aggravating is that your new recipe page gram conversion tool a) doesn't work in any obvious manner and b) has no help links associated to -train- all of us users in how to get it to work right.  It just flat out doesn't work.  Also, your system insists on gram conversions for the dumbest things.  Those of us in the United States who are -normal- people don't bother with grams.  We use cups, tablespoons, and teaspoons.  Ever tried to cook a gram-based recipe that someone else wrote?  Ever had it actually work out?  Yeah...  Didn't THINK so...

Original Post by justrosy2:

What's aggravating is that your new recipe page gram conversion tool a) doesn't work in any obvious manner and b) has no help links associated to -train- all of us users in how to get it to work right.  It just flat out doesn't work.  Also, your system insists on gram conversions for the dumbest things.  Those of us in the United States who are -normal- people don't bother with grams.  We use cups, tablespoons, and teaspoons.  Ever tried to cook a gram-based recipe that someone else wrote?  Ever had it actually work out?  Yeah...  Didn't THINK so...

Excuse me but I'm in the US, born here also, and use grams.

Don't see the problem as teaspoons, etc, also work IF the ingredient standard measure is such.

Is there a way to take the already determined nutritional facts from a recipie and put it in the nutrition tag. I found when I just list the ingredients the analyzer gives me totaly different nutritional facts that the recipie does. I tend to trust the nutritional information that is listed as the recipies I am making are from a book from the Canadian Diabetes Association. I would like to get this information in so that I can share some of these recipies which I found to be very tasty.

I can't figure out WHAT I'm doing wrong. I've been using the Recipe Analyzer for years but now that I've re-logged on it seems so much different.  I type in a recipe and I always seem to get the pink box around (g) and it's not recognizing what's immediately to the left of it.  Take for example I'm doing 26 oz frozen potato wedges. It allows me to choose the type of wedges I like but then the pink box comes up around "oz" and the box that comes up when I click on the pink one has a "g" in it but I have no idea what I'm supposed to there. I've tried replacing it with another serving type but then it just adds that to the "g" and I just can't get it to recognize anything I put there. This has happened multiple times and I'm getting very infuriated!

Igor,

Your recipe analyzer doesn't take into account the fact that foods lose their weight after cooking.  It just calculates the total weight of the recipe by adding the weights of its ingredients and then uses that number to calculate calories per 1 oz or 1 g. 

You should really let the user specify the total weight of a finished recipe and use that number to calculate calories per 1 oz or 1 g.

If I am making, for example, a baked fish with mayo I weigh the raw fish first and add it to the recipe.  I cannot scrub the mayo and weigh it after it's cooked.

Please fix it - it should be easy!

Apparently no one has fixed the problem associated with using custom foods.  I get the drop down box that shows all of my custom foods but I cannot select any.  It will not transfer the food into the recipe analyzer.  I still cannot enter some of my favorite recipes.  I am still entering each item into the food log and guessing on some of the serving sizes which makes this not accurate at all.  Please fix!!!!

I have a recipe that I had 3 T. of frozen orange juice concentrate. I can find the type of juice in the food database. Link it to the recipe and put in the right amount in oz or g and at the end of the day it keeps wanting me to correct it into grams over and over. Even when I put it into grams it still gives an error and won't add the calories until the error is fixed. But it's never fixed it will keep having me add grams on grams on grams. It's very frustrating. 

This one is much more difficult to use than the last one.  I can't seem to enter even basic items like 16 oz of corn or 4 medium carrots.  I much prefer the older version.

I am not happy with the new recipe analyzer.  It is analyzing my recipe ingredients as per serving rather than dividing the total calories by how many servings it is made for.

If I put in a cookie recipe that has 36 servings.  The recipe analyzer is calculating my cookie recipe as 1 serving. 

I am not happy with this, when I punch in a recipe with grams, it does not seem to recognize it with some, but with others. Then I change it to ounces and it still does not recognize the weight, never mind the ingredients. I don't do strange items, but when I go to grams and then it gives me an error message, I mean, what good is it?

I don't like the recipe analyser/creator. It won't let me correct the error. (After I correct it, there's no way to verify the correction. Instead, it reverts back to the old entry. Also, I received an error to correct to items that I added from your own site...Dill Weed and Meijer Salad dressing. 

I cant even put in some ingredients without it highlighting it! New version is bad!!

How do you convert grams to common measurements like tablespoon, cup, etc?  The recipe I entered came up with grams and  I do not know how to measure that.

A lot of my custom foods do not show up in the "pick a custom food" window."  Really, really annoying.  I suppose I'm going to have to do this all manually.  This would be a great tool if it worked.