Nutritional Information

We know what food we like and what food we buy and cook. How well do we really know that food? Do you know what’s inside it? I’m not talking about the jelly inside a donut. I’m talking about the nutritional information, of course.
The irony is that if we are buying packaged foods, we can read the label on the outside and find out. But if we cook the food with fresh (or not so fresh) ingredients at home, we don’t always know.

Well there is good news for those chefs who are preparing real food if you want to make sure you are following dietary guidelines or just get some reinforcement that the foods you are serving are as healthy as you think they are.

It’s a site called The Recipe Analyzer and it will convert your recipe into a label like the one you’d find on the side of a box. Let’s hope you don’t have the same amount of sodium on yours! (Did I really write that?)

Try it out here.

Do you have a favourite food site that you like for nutritional information?