Managing recipe weights and serving sizes in meez is essential for accurate recipe calculations and nutritional labeling. This guide provides step-by-step instructions for calculating the total weight of a recipe and adjusting serving sizes for precise nutritional details.
Calculating Recipe Weight
To find the total weight of a recipe:
Open the recipe you want to calculate.
Click the Edit button to enable editing mode.
Locate the auto-calculate yield function, which appears as a slider below the total yield field.
Ensure that all ingredient units are convertible (e.g., ounces or grams). This is necessary for the auto-calculate feature to work correctly.
Note: Auto calculate total yield adds up the amounts of the ingredients exactly as they are listed in the recipe. It doesn't account for ingredients that dissolve or combine and change the total volume. For example, 1 qt of water plus 1 cup of salt adds up to more than the volume you would actually end up with once the salt dissolves. If your finished volume differs from the sum of the ingredients, enter your measured yield manually instead.
By following these steps, you can quickly determine the total weight of your recipe for accurate planning and adjustments.
Setting a Serving Size for Nutrition Labels
The serving size determines how nutrition information is displayed on your recipe's label. You can set it to whatever makes the most sense for how the recipe is used or sold — for example:
Per 1 cup
Per 100 grams
For the entire batch
Note: The serving size does not need to match the amount called for when this recipe is used as a sub recipe in another recipe. Those are independent of each other.
To set your serving size:
Open the recipe and click Edit.
Navigate to the Nutrition tab.
Enter your serving size in the serving size field.
Make sure the serving size either equals the total yield of the recipe, or uses a unit of measure that can be converted to your recipe's yield units. If you need to set up a conversion, you can do so in the UoM Equivalency tab. This is what allows meez to calculate nutrition accurately.
Save your changes.
Once saved, the nutrition label will calculate and display values based on the serving size you entered.
Related Topics
Setting up ingredient units
Using the auto-calculate yield function effectively
Creating accurate nutritional labels