Mariner Software MacGourmet Deluxe - Manual (Page 77)

The USDA does update the database often, though, so at some point all of the
ingredients could be available for your calculations.
Recalculating Your Nutritional Information
While you can recalculate your nutritional information any time you desire,
sometimes you will have to recalculate your information because of changes in
ingredients, servings or mappings. When this happens, the table labeled “Cal-
culated Nutritional Information per Serving” will be marked with an alert mes-
sage stating that the data displayed needs to be recalculated. When you press
the Calculate button, the old values will be replaced with the new ones and the
alert will be cleared.
Tips on Getting the Best Calculations
MacGourmet Deluxe: Nutrition relies heavily on the USDA database of nutri-
tional items to do calculations. We’ve chosen this method because not only is
the USDA database updated often, it also allows a simple method of mapping
ingredients in recipes to their equivalents in the nutrition database by using a
simple drag and drop process. This is easy enough but there are ways to make
this easier. For example:
You might have various ways of referring to boneless and skinless chicken
breasts in your recipes:
• skinless chicken breasts
• chicken breasts, skinless
• boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• boneless and skinless chicken beasts
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