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These are the docs for 0.26.0-beta, an older release.

See the current docs (0.26.1-beta) for what Norish does today.
  1. Recipes
  2. Nutrition

Nutrition

Calories, protein, fat and carbs are shown per serving. When the source doesn't provide them, they are calculated from the ingredients. This works with or without AI.

How lines are counted

Each ingredient line is converted to grams using the ingredient's values per 100 g.

  • A weight, like 200 g onion or 1 lb rice, is used as is.
  • A count, like 2 eggs or 3 cloves garlic, uses the weight of one piece.
  • A volume, like 2 tbsp olive oil or 1 cup milk, uses the weight of a spoon of that ingredient. A teaspoon is 5 ml, a tablespoon 15 ml and a cup 240 ml.
  • A weight in brackets wins: 1 (15 ounce) can coconut milk, 1 can (400 g) tomatoes.
  • A pinch, a dash or "to taste" is not counted.

The total is divided by the servings. The nutrition card lists which lines were counted and why the others weren't.

Where the numbers come from

Open Settings => Ingredients and pick an ingredient to see its values per 100 g, the weight of one piece and the weight of a spoon.

Values come from the first available source below:

  1. Your household's correction.
  2. A curated food match where the usual match is wrong for cooking, like whole milk for "milk". Marked chosen by Norish.
  3. The food that the ingredient's Open Food Facts entry points to.
  4. A dataset food with the same name. Marked matched by name.
  5. AI's estimate, where an administrator lets AI fill missing nutrition. Marked Estimated by AI.
  6. A more general food: "red onion" uses "onion". Marked from onion. An ingredient can inherit values from its parent. Sauces, pure alcohol and fruit don't pass their values on, because their kinds differ too much.

The datasets are CIQUAL 2025 and CALNUT (ANSES), USDA FoodData Central and CoFID.

Correcting nutrition

To correct values for what you buy, open Nutrition in the ingredient's panel and press Correct. Anyone in your household can correct any ingredient; corrections are visible only to your household.

For the values per 100 g, the weight of one piece and the weight of a spoon, pick one:

  • No correction: keep the supplied values.
  • A dataset food: search the datasets, like "milk semi-skimmed".
  • From a label: type the numbers from the pack.