Recipe development app for carb values?

[Lizzypier]

Hi
Can anyone recommend a site or app for working out carb and protein values for new recipes. I use the Cals and Carbs app but not great for baking. Busy with recipes for grain free savoury crackers. All advice appreciated.

 

[AndBreathe]

Hi
Can anyone recommend a site or app for working out carb and protein values for new recipes. I use the Cals and Carbs app but not great for baking. Busy with recipes for grain free savoury crackers. All advice appreciated.

Try myfitnesspal. On there, one is able to add a recipe and the carbs and cals are calculated. If you are working from an online recipe, it can do most of the work from the relevant website recipe url, or you can manually add each ingredient.

I don't think I have tried adding a recipe from the app, but I have done loads on the website.

Enjoy!

 

[noblehead]

There's an App called Cook and Count, here is some info about it with the option to download it:

http://apps.nhs.uk/app/cook-and-count-carbs/

 

[RustyRiley]

Try myfitnesspal. On there, one is able to add a recipe and the carbs and cals are calculated. If you are working from an online recipe, it can do most of the work from the relevant website recipe url, or you can manually add each ingredient.

I don't think I have tried adding a recipe from the app, but I have done loads on the website.

Enjoy!

MFP is my "goto" app, but it's hardly ideal -- but it probably has more "local" products, wherever you are -- US, UK, Australia, New Zealand! than any other single product. Important to learn the basics first. One thing MFP frequently gets wrong, and this is also important for many of those with diabetes is its counting of salt -- frequently grossly over-estimates this -- Food.com has some good recipes, and is one of the few to provide nutritional info, but there's often a huge difference between Food.com recipes and MFP, in such instances I tend to err on the side of Food.com, due to history of problems with MFP -- sometimes it can also get cabs wrong, which can be really problematic if your insulin intake depends on carb intake (which it does). A good "second line of defence" is the American Department of Agriculture https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/ For many, apart from the forgoing, a big problem is that like SuperTracker (which doesn't come with an app) is that the "full" MFP comes with a pretty expensive web-based feature, but there's also other apps, even more expensive than MFP, but also often restricting full features to the web -- secures their technology better than an app does.