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Chicken and Cucumber Wholegrain Wrap: 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)
Chicken Breast300 gF002594 — Chicken, breast, lean, raw1236 (412/100 g)295.4 (98.5/100 g)67.5 (22.5/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)2.4 (0.8/100 g)144 (48/100 g)12 (4/100 g)1170 (390/100 g)
Wholegrain wrap200 gF001404 — Bread, flat (pita or Lebanese), wholemeal, commercial2148 (1074/100 g)513.4 (256.7/100 g)17.2 (8.6/100 g)94.4 (47.2/100 g)12.8 (6.4/100 g)4 (2/100 g)940 (470/100 g)90 (45/100 g)400 (200/100 g)
Low-Fat Yoghurt120 gF009688 — Yoghurt, natural, low fat (<0.5%)276 (230/100 g)66 (55/100 g)7.1 (5.9/100 g)7.1 (5.9/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0.4 (0.3/100 g)100.8 (84/100 g)280.8 (234/100 g)355.2 (296/100 g)
Cucumber150 gF003320 — Cucumber, common, unpeeled, raw75 (50/100 g)17.9 (12/100 g)1.2 (0.8/100 g)1.8 (1.2/100 g)2.1 (1.4/100 g)0.2 (0.1/100 g)15 (10/100 g)27 (18/100 g)204 (136/100 g)
Carrot120 gF002276 — Carrot, raw174 (145/100 g)41.6 (34.7/100 g)0.7 (0.6/100 g)7.9 (6.6/100 g)3.8 (3.2/100 g)0 (0/100 g)61.2 (51/100 g)31.2 (26/100 g)319.2 (266/100 g)
Baby Spinach60 gF008749 — Spinach, baby, fresh, raw40.8 (68/100 g)9.8 (16.3/100 g)1.7 (2.8/100 g)0 (0/100 g)1.5 (2.5/100 g)0 (0/100 g)51.6 (86/100 g)54.6 (91/100 g)366 (610/100 g)
Lemon Juice10 gF004726 — Juice, lemon11.1 (111/100 g)2.7 (26.5/100 g)0.1 (0.6/100 g)0.2 (1.8/100 g)0.2 (2/100 g)0 (0.1/100 g)0.3 (3/100 g)2 (20/100 g)14 (140/100 g)
Dill8 gF003509 — Dill, fresh, raw13.6 (170/100 g)3.3 (40.6/100 g)0.3 (3.4/100 g)0.2 (2.5/100 g)0.3 (3.3/100 g)0.1 (1.2/100 g)3.4 (42/100 g)13.6 (170/100 g)29.6 (370/100 g)
Salt1 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)381.7 (38168/100 g)0.3 (34/100 g)1 (98/100 g)
Whole recipe3974.5949.995.7111.620.771697.9511.52859
Per serving (÷ 2)1987.347547.955.810.43.5849255.81429.5

Oxalate

235 mg per serving (469 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)
Baby Spinach60 gas weighed567340
Wholegrain wrap200 gas weighed3570
Carrot120 gas weighed2429
Dill8 gas weighed14512
Chicken Breast300 gas weighed39
Cucumber150 gas weighed46
Low-Fat Yoghurt120 gas weighed34
Lemon Juice10 gas weighed10
Salt1 gas weighed00
Per serving (÷ 2)235
Baby Spinach
The OHF publishes only cooked spinach. Recipes here use it raw as well, and raw spinach is the higher of the two per 100 g because boiling leaches oxalate away, so a raw-spinach dish is understated by this figure rather than overstated.

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.

Chicken Breast
Recipe lines say skinless chicken breast, raw, so the lean raw breast record applies; skin-and-fat and cooked variants rejected because the weight is taken before cooking.
Wholegrain wrap
Small wholegrain wraps weighed as bought; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book, which maps wraps to the wholemeal flatbread record.
Low-Fat Yoghurt
Recipe lines say plain low-fat yogurt, and AUSNUT has an explicit low fat (under 0.5%) tier, so it is preferred over the reduced fat (~2%) record which describes a different labelled product.
Cucumber
Weighed raw, mostly unpeeled and diced or cut into matchsticks; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
Carrot
Weighed raw, peeled and sliced or grated, before any cooking; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
Baby Spinach
Weighed raw and wilted in the pan or eaten raw in salads; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
Lemon Juice
Measured as squeezed juice, not whole fruit; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
Dill
Used in 5-6 g amounts as a fresh finishing herb, weighed raw; the fresh raw dill record is the only dill entry in the dataset.
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.