How to calculate calorie complex dishes

Often in the diet of one who went on the delicate way of counting calories, there are only boiled chicken breast, rice, cucumbers and other simple products. To calculate the energy value of food, enough to weigh it and record the numbers in a special attachment.

Guru counting calories can cook a pot of borscht a week, goulash, salad, burgers, and always be aware of the energy value portion. To do this, you need to learn how to calculate how many calories, protein, fat and carbohydrates contained in 100 g of food.

Will look at how to do this, the example is not very useful, but the actual New Year's Eve Olivier salad.

To prepare the salad you will need:

• 300 g of boiled potatoes;
• 300 g sausage "Doctor";
• 5 eggs;
• 150 g of pickles;
• 200 g of canned peas;
• 120 g of mayonnaise.

Calculating the weight of the finished dish

Before preparing meals each component must weigh the results recorded.

Another important figure - the total weight of the finished dish. In this case it will be 1345 g in view of the fact that one egg C1 weighs approximately 55 g. Of course, the finished dish will weigh only together with a bowl or pan in which it is located. Therefore, determine the weight of the tank in advance and subtract this number from the total.

Weigh frequently used utensils and record the readings in a notebook. This is useful if you forget to learn a lot of empty bowls.

Counting calories in a table

Compile a table which prescribes ingredient, its quantity, the amount used in caloric product (in this case - on 300 g of boiled potato and 120 g of mayonnaise) and the content of protein, fat and carbohydrates. Learn KBZHU product can be in the application for counting calories.

The table will look something like this:

To find out how many calories, protein, fat and carbohydrates in a complex dish, you have to remember a simple rule proportions - the equality of two relations:

total calorie meals / dishes weight = calorie per serving / 100g

From this proportion the universal formula for calculating calorie dishes:

total calorie meals * 100 / weight of the food calorie = 100 g

How it works on the example table:

2 318,05 * 100 / 1 345 = 172,3.

100g of salad prepared in exact accordance with the recipe, 172.3 kcal. This formula is also suitable for the calculation of the content of macronutrients. Only instead of the total calories must substitute the total number of proteins, fats and carbohydrates in the dish. For example:

93.84 * 100/1 345 = 6.9 g protein per 100 g of the salad;

178.73 * 100/1 345 = 13.3 g fat per 100 g of the salad;

77.19 * 100/1 345 = 5.8 g carbohydrates per 100 g of salad.

Counting calories through services

Services that will count calorie and BZHU content in the dish for you, not so much. They are less accurate than your calculations. The program calculates the final weight of the dish by adding the weight of all ingredients. This is true, if all components are solid. But it does not take into account the degree of evaporation of liquids.

When calculating the water table can not be weighed from a zero calorie content. Its content will be reflected in the final weight of dishes. Services for the amount of water necessary to take into account and make the appropriate column.

Services for the calculation of calories in 100 grams of food have been established a long time ago, so overloaded with different design and an abundance of advertising. But they quickly produce all calculations. You do not even need to register on the site.

Calorizator.ru

On the site Calorizator.ru calculate how many calories, protein, fat, carbohydrates contained in 100 g of food, in the section "Analyzer products."

In the table you need to make all of the ingredients (you can choose from the drop down list) and indicate their amount.

Service will issue numbers, which can be made to your application to account for the calories. Incidentally, the calculation results coincide with those that were obtained from the formula.

Diets.ru

To calculate the calorie content of 100 g of food online Diets.ru, Select the heading "Calculators calorie", then click "Calculation of the finished dish calories."

The algorithm of action is the same: enter the ingredients and their quantity, we get the final calculations.

On Diets.ru have the option "Consider uvarku (weight reduction in the cooking process)" so you can make the table is not boiled and raw potatoes, and put a check mark under the table.

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Any of these methods will help calculate the approximate energy value of food, as no service He does not know how many calories are in a particular apple, a piece of meat, cereal servings and how many of them will be acquired body. However, these exemplary figures is enough to make a diet for weight loss or weight gain.

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