Overview, The nutritional database – Mariner Software MacGourmet Deluxe User Manual

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Overview

The MacGourmet Deluxe Nutrition feature consists of a main window, which
provides access of the nutrition database and nutrient items, and a floating
heads up display (HUD) window that displays a summary of the calculated nu-
tritional information for a recipe.

The Nutritional Data-
base
The main nutritional
database window can
be accessed from ei-
ther the Nutrition
menu, or the recipe
box toolbar. The main
window allows you to
browse all of the nu-
tritional items in the
database as well as
providing a source for
the mappings between
nutritional database
items and your ingre-
dients.

The main window
consists of 3 areas,
the main list or nutri-
tional items, the nutritional data for the selected item and the mappings from
the selected item to ingredient names.

To find information on a nutritional item in the database, you just need to type
part of the nutrient name into the search field. As you type, results matching
your search will be displayed. You can remove food groups from your search by
right-clicking, or control-clicking on the nutritional item table and un-checking
the category in the menu.

Once you find the nutritional item you are looking for, selecting it will display
the nutrient values for the item in the nutritional information table. The data in
this table shows the nutritional information for the item for every 100 grams.

Selecting the item will also show you the ingredients in your recipe library that
currently map to the item. For instance, in the image above, ingredients with a

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