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Nutrition & Health — putting macros on your menu

“Show me high-protein dishes under 400 calories.” Your menu can’t answer that today. With this on it can — from your own ingredients, not from promises.

The rule

The numbers are calculated, not claimed. Every value traces back to an ingredient with a source you can audit. That’s why the filters are trustworthy and why you can publish them without losing sleep.

Turning it on

An optional plug-in, off by default. Right for a spa hotel, a venue serving athletes, a care home; a pizzeria selling comfort food can leave it off. It needs Inventory and Recipes on too, since it works up from what you stock.

Filling in the numbers

  1. Open an ingredient and go to the 🥗 Nutrition tab.
  2. Click Calculate. A few seconds later you get calories, protein, fat, carbs, sugar, fibre and sodium per 100 g.
  3. A badge says where each came from — green for a public food database, amber for an AI estimate.
  4. Check it and click ✓ Confirm values. The badge turns green Staff-verified and your numbers survive future recalculations.

Wrong? ✎ Edit makes it editable, including the unit-to-grams factor — olive oil is ~0.92 g/ml, syrup ~1.3, and the default assumes 1.

Once per ingredient, then never again unless the supplier changes.

Rolling up to a dish

Open a recipe and click Calculate on the nutrition card. It multiplies each ingredient by its quantity, applies your yield loss (a fish portioned to 80% counts as such), and divides by the recipe’s yield.

A confidence badge follows: green when everything is verified or from a database, amber when something rests on an AI estimate, red when data is thin. Missing ingredients are listed with links so you can fix the gaps in one pass.

After the first calculation it maintains itself — edit the recipe or an ingredient and the rollup re-fires.

What the diner sees

A row of chips above your menu — 💪 High protein, 🧂 Low sodium, 🔥 Low calorie, 🍯 Low sugar. Tap any combination and the menu trims to dishes hitting all of them.

They only appear once at least one dish has data.