The website just cannot do nutrition analysis.  Even if it could do the calculations, it wouldn't have the ingredient and ingredient link information I've put into bigoven.   So I now post the nutrition summary whenever I post a recipe.  It might be nice if some future version of BigOven made that automatic, but I'm willing to do it by hand for now.

 

If a recipe uses bigoven's standard ingredients, you can quickly generate a nutrition summary for yourself.  And you can type that information in and update the recipe, which would be a help to everyone.  There has been a teeny bit of discusson on the diabetic group about posting nutrition summaries with recipes.

 

Peter Romfh has been using a format like this:

Each (.51 cups; 85g) serving contains:
Cals:  74, Protein:  1g, NetCarbs: 12, TotFat:  2g, FatCals: 23 (31%)
SatFat:  2g, PolyFat: 0g, MonoFat: 0g, Chol:  0mg
TotCarbs:   14g, Fiber: 2g, Sugars:  11g, Na:  20mg, K: 159mg

And I think I am going to start to use a format like this:

DASH:  Vegetables: 0.0: Fruits/Juices: 0.9: Dairy: 0.0: Grains: 0.0: Meat/Fish: 0.0: Seeds: 0.3: Fats: 0.0: Sweets: 0.2
USDA:  Vegetables: 0.0: Fruits/Juices: 0.5: Dairy: 0.0: Grains: 0.0: Meat/Fish/Seeds: 0.3: Fats: 0.0: Sweets: 0.2

I actually use EXCEL to help me calculate portion information and to format the nutritional information, which I copy out of bigoven and paste into EXCEL.

I have diabetes and so the nutritional information is vital to my dietary food plan.  That being said, I am new to bigoven. I have been trying to gather family recipes for a couple of years and plan to create our own family recipe book.  My  new computer uses vista operating system and my old program which had good nutritional analysis will not work with vista.  My sister convinced me to buy your product.  I spent 2 hours last night trying to get the nutritional analysis on one recipe.  I found the list to be horribly inadequate.  I was shocked that the software could get a high rating with nutritional information being ignorred by this program.  My old software did require my adding specialty products but things like lowfat(2%) cheddar cheese or lowfat jack cheese were included.  But they are not in this product.  Trying to link to the usda nutritional database was difficult at best.  In fact at 2 hours I gave up and went to my fitday diet software and used it to get the nutritional information which I will manually type into the recipe rather than fight with this program lack of nutritional information.  At this point I would say that this purchase was a bad mistake.  Also, once in the nutrition ingredient area how do you exit if you don't have the info to enter?  I could not find a close window button or link.    I hope that this local company will correct the deficiencies in nutritional ingredients list before working on fluff items.  Pretty & slick tricks do not make up for poor design in the basics and lack of ingredients for recipes.

Any tips for getting or using a better ingredient list would be helpful.  I have over 100 family recipes that I must enter.

 

 

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