What’s in your dish?
Turn a recipe into an estimated calorie and macro panel. Review the ingredients, choose USDA foods, and see what each serving adds up to.
Review your recipe
Amounts are for the whole recipe. Confirm each food match and amount you have checked. Changing a name clears its previous match.
Estimated nutrition (per serving)
Estimated from USDA FoodData Central values for the ingredients and amounts listed. Menu2Website has not verified these numbers and cannot verify them. Actual values vary with recipe, portioning, brands and cooking. Not a lab analysis; do not rely on it for medical, dietary or allergy decisions.
How we got this
How the estimate is calculated
- List the ingredients with amounts for the whole recipe. Grams work directly; cups, spoons and counts are converted to grams for you to review.
- Match each ingredient to a named food in USDA FoodData Central.
- Scale and add. Each food's values per 100 g are multiplied by the grams used, then the ingredients are added together.
- Divide by servings to get the per-serving panel, rounded so it doesn't suggest false precision.
Example: an ingredient listed at 150 kcal per 100 g, used at 220 g, adds 150 × 2.2 = 330 kcal to the recipe. If the recipe makes two servings, that ingredient contributes 165 kcal per serving.
The panel covers calories, protein, total fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, fibre, sugar and sodium. A confidence rating reflects how well the ingredients matched and how many amounts you supplied yourself; it is not a measurement of the dish. Read how we estimate nutrition for the full method and limits.
Questions about the estimator
How does the dish nutrition estimator work?
You enter the dish and its ingredients with amounts for the whole recipe. Each ingredient is matched to a food in USDA FoodData Central; the tool multiplies that food's values per 100 grams by the grams you use, adds the ingredients together, and divides by the number of servings the recipe makes.
Which nutrients does it estimate?
Calories, protein, total fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, fibre, sugar and sodium, per serving.
Does AI calculate the nutrition numbers?
No. AI may suggest ingredient names and gram amounts when you describe a dish or use cups and counts. Every nutrient number comes from USDA FoodData Central and is calculated in code; you can change any match or amount.
How accurate are the estimates?
They are estimates, not lab results. Raw versus cooked weights, brands, portion sizes and cooking methods all change the real values. Menu2Website has not verified the numbers and cannot verify them, so check them before sharing them with guests and do not use them for medical, dietary or allergy decisions or for regulatory labels.
Is the nutrition estimator free?
Yes. Estimating a dish is free. An email address is needed to download the estimate as text, a PNG card, a PDF or schema.org JSON-LD.