When you are trying out a new recipe, it’s nice to know how healthy it is, and we recently released a feature to estimate nutritional info for any recipe. Just copy and paste the ingredients or the link to the recipe here to get a nutrition breakdown and an organized grocery list.
Many larger recipe websites are nice enough to give you a the main nutritional values for their recipes, but sometimes it is hard to know why a recipe has the amount of calories or fat that it has. Since in most cases you only get totals for the recipe, you may not know which ingredients contribute the most to the various nutritional values and what you could do to change it. So Say Mmm has taken it one step further by showing the top ingredients that contribute to the calorie count, and we have just extended that to other other main nutritional values: Fat, Carbs, Cholesterol, Protein, and Sodium.
Take this example of Pancake-Sausage Muffins. Sound heavy? It’s actually not that bad at 120 calories a muffin (serves 18). But what about the sausage? Doesn’t that add a lot of calories and fat? That’s the interesting thing you can see with the ingredient breakdown. It turns out the flour and the butter add more calories than the sausage and the butter is responsible for most of the fat. Now the story might be different with regular sausage or if the recipe had more turkey sausage in it, but easily seeing it in proportion to the recipe gives a much better understanding of why a recipe may or may not be what you are looking for.
See the calorie breakdown by default:
Or change to view other nutrient breakdowns, like total fat:
