BigOven

Often, when I enter a new recipe, bigoven does nutrition "auto links".  This seems convenient.

Often, though, the links are bizarre.

I just created a new recipe, starting with 1 1/2 cups of "dried apples".

Bigoven linked this to "RICE,BROWN,LONG-GRAIN,CKD", which has a rather different nutritional profile.

 I created that new recipe because I had some big surprises when I imported a granola recipe with the following ingredients:

6 cups regular rolled oats (not instant)
1/3 cup ground flaxseed or chopped walnuts
2 tbsp Canola oil
2 tbsp Honey or brown sugar (or to taste)
1 cup dried fruit: raisins blueberries, cranberries, or papaya
1 1/2 cups dried apples chopped into 1/4 inch pieces

I wound up with the following nutritional links: 

"regular rolled oats" --> "GARLIC,RAW" (6 grams)

"ground flaxseed or chopped walnuts" --> "GINGER ROOT,RAW" (7 grams)

"dried fruit; raisins" --> "LETTUCE,COS OR ROMAINE,RAW" (224 grams)

"dried apples" --> "SOY SAU MADE FROM SOY&WHEAT (SHOYU),LO NA" (16 grams)

The canola oil and the honey llinked appropriately. 

 Why will it link "dried apples" to soy sauce one time and cooked brown rice another?

Is there any setting I can use to tell bigoven not to try so hard?

Strange, we'll investigate.

BigOven does come with pre-defined links to the most common pantry items, but it doesn't try to guess at nutrition linking unless it was explicitly done at one point by an editor, or the user.   We'll investigate this one -- if you could email us your support.csy file that'd help.

One thought -- have you deleted and then added a bunch of ingredients in the "Tools/Options/Ingredients" area? 

Perhaps the links to the old ingredient lines are still there even though new ones have been added.  We can investigate this -- does this sound like a possibility in your case?

I have added new nutritional information entries, and I have, from time to time, modified or deleted ingredients from the list.

I'll be happy to mail you the support file.  Monday.

Anything else ?

I checked again today, and see that bigoven is now behaving itself.  I created 2 new recipes today with dried apples, and bigoven did not attempt to link "dried apples" to anything in either case.

I have emailed my support.csy, even though this now seems to be an itermittant problem

I'll just have to check all the nutritional links whenever I deal with a new recipe.  Probably a good idea in any case.

Renee

Yesterday, I bought the software because it really offers a big scope. However I seem to have the same issue with the nutritional links as mentioned in the previous posts. 

I have copied recipes and I typed some recipe info in. I live in Australia and understand that we may have different brand names for some products and ingredients, however eggs have the same name and at the moment I am not able to search sultana or sultanas. I am used to work with the USDA Database but last night I got very frustrated because it takes so much time and doesn't provide any logic why it provides a blank space for such simple ingredient. Also is it possible to enter nutritional data of ingredients which are not listed in the USDA Database? It would really help international users of the software.

The other issue is the metrics versus the american weights. If I convert to metrics it shows me all the ingredients in mililiter but not in grams. I am very familiar with the metric system and can work with it but it is just not correct. It  doesn't synchronise as it should.

We're not seeing this here but are trying to reproduce it with a series of copy/move operations.  If you can provide a good repro-case that'd help speed up the solution.  We do not yet show weights in the display, and won't be adding this in the 1.x release -- it's on the feature requests list for future versions.

(We've got a no-questions asked 30-day money back guarantee if the product isn't quite right for you.)   Thanks!