Mariner Software MacGourmet Deluxe - Manual (Page 75)

Calculating Nutritional Data for a Recipe
To calculate the nutritional values for a recipe, you have to select the Calculated
subsection in the Recipe editor Nutrition tab.
This component shows each ingredient, and it’s equivalent nutrition database
nutrient value. MacGourmet Deluxe calculates nutritional values based on the
ingredients that make up your recipes. To figure out the nutritional values for
each ingredient, MacGourmet Deluxe uses the concept of associating the ingre-
dient name used in your recipe, and an equivalent nutritional database item,
called a mapping. MacGourmet Deluxe comes with many mappings predefined,
and you’ll see these marked with a
in the “Nutrition Food Item” column
when you view one of your recipes. Values marked with a have not been
mapped yet, because a mapping between the ingredient description and a nu-
tritional item wasn’t found.
To note, the number of servings needs to be in
place AND the recipe has to be save before this will work.
To correctly calculate
the nutritional informa-
tion, as many ingredi-
ents as possible must
be mapped to nutri-
tional items. To create a
new mapping, you just
need to find the nutri-
tional item in the data-
base that is the closest
match the ingredient,
and drag and drop the
item from the nutri-
tional database to the
ingredient row that
needs a mapping. Once
you do this, the correct
nutritional values will
available to calculate
the nutritional informa-
tion for the ingredient.
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