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HealthyinMN
08-29-2005, 09:51 PM
This is the recipe

http://food.cookinglight.com/cooking/display/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=549927

The caloric information matches what I have that was printed in the magazine. But when I either add it up by hand, or use mastercook the numbers are pretty off. Am I calculating something wrong or did they?

tholbrook
08-29-2005, 10:13 PM
This is the recipe

http://food.cookinglight.com/cooking/display/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=549927

The caloric information matches what I have that was printed in the magazine. But when I either add it up by hand, or use mastercook the numbers are pretty off. Am I calculating something wrong or did they?
When I entered it in Mastercook, this is what I got:

Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 232 Calories; 4g Fat (16.4% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 47g Carbohydrate; 5g Dietary Fiber; 10mg Cholesterol; 155mg Sodium. Exchanges: 2 1/2 Grain(Starch); 1 Fat; 1/2 Other Carbohydrates.

This is what Cooking Light says:
NUTRITION PER SERVING
CALORIES 234(27% from fat); FAT 7g (sat 3.1g,mono 1.9g,poly 0.9g); PROTEIN 21.6g; CHOLESTEROL 142mg; CALCIUM 108mg; SODIUM 615mg; FIBER 2.1g; IRON 3.3mg; CARBOHYDRATE 21g

Now the FIRST time I looked at the recipe, it was about 140 calories per serving... something odd is definitely going on. I looked at the reviews for this recipe, and when I went back, the nutrition info had changed. Weird! :confused: I think somebody else had mentioned that they noticed this going on ...

Still - the calories between the two match up, but the distribution between fat/carbs/protein is way off for the CL version. I seriously doubt that this recipe has 21.6 grams of protein per serving. So it's still wrong - and I can't get those numbers to come up again. It's back to the 140 cal/serving.

HealthyinMN
08-29-2005, 10:28 PM
Now the FIRST time I looked at the recipe, it was about 140 calories per serving... something odd is definitely going on. I looked at the reviews for this recipe, and when I went back, the nutrition info had changed. Weird! :confused: I think somebody else had mentioned that they noticed this going on ...

Still - the calories between the two match up, but the distribution between fat/carbs/protein is way off for the CL version. I seriously doubt that this recipe has 21.6 grams of protein per serving. So it's still wrong - and I can't get those numbers to come up again. It's back to the 140 cal/serving.

The actual magazine page says 140 per serving as well. Thats why I am confused :) When I fresh the page I linked to it showed 310 per seving :confused: so something is funky there!

Judy K.
08-30-2005, 06:22 PM
My Mastercook analysis matches tholbrook. I'd go with what Mastercook says, not what the recipe on the CL website says.

Now, inquiring minds want to know . . . why are you looking at a sweet potato recipe in August??