Nutrition

A recipe can hold two kinds of nutrition information: nutrition notes you type yourself, and a Nutrition Facts table like the label on packaged food. Paprika can fill in the table for you by analyzing the recipe's ingredients.

Entering Nutrition Facts

While editing a recipe, click the Nutrition header to open the pane. The Text | Table control in the header switches between the two kinds of nutrition information. Paprika saves both, so a recipe can have notes and a table.

• Text holds your nutrition notes. You can format them like the other text fields.
• Table holds the Nutrition Facts: Servings, Serving Size, Serving Weight in grams, and the amount per serving of each nutrient on the label, from Calories down to Potassium. Use the arrows beside Servings to change the servings, which start at the recipe's own.

If your notes already list values such as "Calories: 250", click Extract to Table in the Nutrition header to copy them into the table.

Analyzing Ingredients Premium

Paprika can calculate the Nutrition Facts from the recipe's ingredients. It matches each ingredient to a food in the USDA nutrition database and works out its weight from the amount in the recipe.

To analyze a recipe, click Analyze Ingredients in the Nutrition header. Paprika lists each ingredient with the food it matched. An ingredient may also show:

• No USDA Match - Paprika couldn't find a matching food.
• No Ingredient Detected - the line isn't an ingredient, such as a heading.
• Not counted - the ingredient is left out of the totals.

Click an ingredient to open Edit Ingredient, where you can:

• Correct the Quantity and Measurement that Paprika read.
• Choose a different food under USDA Mapping. Click Choose… and search for the food in Find Food.
• Turn on Exclude from calculation for an ingredient you won't use. When a line offers a choice, such as "butter or margarine", Paprika counts only one of them.

Click Done to return to the list. When the list looks right, click Next. If some ingredients have no usable match, Paprika warns you with Unmatched Ingredients. Choose Calculate Anyway to leave them out, or Cancel to go back and fix them.

The Nutrition Facts screen shows the calculated amounts per serving. Change the servings to recalculate the amounts, or edit any value directly. If the recipe gives no amount for an ingredient, such as "salt to taste", a note lists what the totals leave out. Click Save to copy the values into the recipe's table.

Viewing Nutrition

When a recipe has Nutrition Facts, the recipe view shows them as a label in the Nutrition section, with the servings per recipe, the serving size, calories, and each nutrient's percent daily value. If the recipe also has nutrition notes, use the Table | Text switch above the label to see either one.

To print nutrition information, turn on Show Nutrition in the print options. The printout includes both the Nutrition Facts label and your notes.