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Baked White Fish with Crushed Potato and Broccoli: where the numbers come from

Each ingredient is matched to a record in the Australian food-composition data, that record's per-100 g values are scaled to the weight the recipe uses, the results are added, and the total is divided by 2 servings. This page shows all of it, so the estimate can be checked rather than taken on trust.

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Per ingredient

IngredientWeightComposition recordEnergy (kJ)Energy (kcal)Protein (g)Carbohydrate (g)Fibre (g)Fat (g)Sodium (mg)Calcium (mg)Potassium (mg)
White Fish300 gF003956 — Fish, white flesh, raw, not further defined1353 (451/100 g)323.4 (107.8/100 g)57.6 (19.2/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)9.9 (3.3/100 g)225 (75/100 g)102 (34/100 g)1089 (363/100 g)
Potato500 gF007325 — Potato, pale skin, peeled, raw1210 (242/100 g)289.2 (57.8/100 g)10 (2/100 g)57.5 (11.5/100 g)5.5 (1.1/100 g)0 (0/100 g)20 (4/100 g)15 (3/100 g)1900 (380/100 g)
Broccoli300 gF001905 — Broccoli, fresh or frozen, raw402 (134/100 g)96.1 (32/100 g)12 (4/100 g)3.6 (1.2/100 g)10.5 (3.5/100 g)1.2 (0.4/100 g)60 (20/100 g)108 (36/100 g)1023 (341/100 g)
Olive Oil32 gF006177 — Oil, olive1182.4 (3695/100 g)282.6 (883.1/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)32 (99.9/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)
Lemon100 gF004726 — Juice, lemon111 (111/100 g)26.5 (26.5/100 g)0.6 (0.6/100 g)1.8 (1.8/100 g)2 (2/100 g)0.1 (0.1/100 g)3 (3/100 g)20 (20/100 g)140 (140/100 g)
Garlic10 gF004193 — Garlic, peeled, raw52.2 (522/100 g)12.5 (124.8/100 g)0.6 (6.1/100 g)1 (10.2/100 g)1.7 (16.9/100 g)0.3 (2.8/100 g)0.8 (8/100 g)3 (30/100 g)51 (510/100 g)
Flat Leaf Parsley15 gF006321 — Parsley, fresh, raw22.5 (150/100 g)5.4 (35.9/100 g)0.6 (3.9/100 g)0.2 (1.1/100 g)0.8 (5/100 g)0.1 (0.7/100 g)22.5 (150/100 g)18 (120/100 g)99 (660/100 g)
Salt2 gF007878 — Salt, table, iodised0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)763.4 (38168/100 g)0.7 (34/100 g)2 (98/100 g)
Whole recipe4333.11035.681.464.120.443.61094.7266.74304
Per serving (÷ 2)2166.5517.840.73210.221.8547.3133.32152

Oxalate

90 mg per serving (180 mg for the whole recipe, divided by 2). This comes from the Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation list rather than the Australian composition data above, which does not carry oxalate.

IngredientWeightBasismg per 100 gContributes (mg)
Potato500 gas weighed23115
Broccoli300 gas weighed1236
Flat Leaf Parsley15 gas weighed11017
White Fish300 gas weighed39
Olive Oil32 gas weighed52
Lemon100 gas weighed11
Garlic10 gas weighed91
Salt2 gas weighed00
Per serving (÷ 2)90

Oxalate in a plant moves with variety, ripeness, soil and cooking, and what you absorb depends on the calcium eaten in the same meal rather than on the figure alone. The full table and what it is worth.

Not counted

These lines contribute nothing to the figures above, because they carry no weight or no composition match. Finishing salt and pepper added to taste are deliberately excluded: the amount is the cook's, so counting it would be inventing a number.

  • Ground black pepper, to taste

Why these records

Where a generic database item cannot represent an ingredient exactly, the choice is recorded with the ingredient rather than left to inference.

White Fish
Weighed raw as skinless boneless fillet before cooking; the not-further-defined raw record matches the ledger canonical and suits the unspecified mild white fish.
Potato
Weighed raw, peeled and diced, before boiling or roasting; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
Broccoli
Weighed raw as florets before boiling or steaming; the fresh-or-frozen raw record matches the ledger canonical for broccoli.
Olive Oil
Measured from the bottle, plain or extra-virgin; AUSNUT has a single olive oil record and the ledger key is carried over verbatim.
Lemon
Recipe lines read 1 lemon but the lemon is used only for its juice and zest; the ledger maps these same lines to the lemon juice record, so it is carried over verbatim.
Garlic
Weighed or counted as raw peeled cloves before cooking; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
Flat Leaf Parsley
Weighed raw as fresh leaves for finishing; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
Salt
Weighed or added to taste from the packet; iodised table salt matches the fine salt the recipes specify, and the ledger key is carried over verbatim.

What this is and is not

These figures match the ones shown on the recipe page exactly, because both come from this same arithmetic.

A composition database gives representative values for a food, not an analysis of your tin, your loaf or your cut of meat. Brands differ, produce varies, and yields change with how long something cooked and how hard it was drained. Treat every figure here as an estimate of the right order rather than a measurement, and where a number matters clinically, take it to whoever is managing your care. CERNERE publishes the working so it can be argued with, not to imply a precision food does not have.