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Oat and Almond Porridge with Apple: 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)
Rolled Oats90 gF006143 — Oats, rolled, uncooked1407.6 (1564/100 g)336.4 (373.8/100 g)11 (12.2/100 g)49.1 (54.5/100 g)8.6 (9.5/100 g)8.6 (9.5/100 g)1.8 (2/100 g)36 (40/100 g)279 (310/100 g)
Almonds40 gF006081 — Nut, almond, raw/natural, unsalted954.4 (2386/100 g)228.1 (570.3/100 g)7.9 (19.7/100 g)2.2 (5.4/100 g)4.4 (11/100 g)20.2 (50.5/100 g)0 (0/100 g)106.8 (267/100 g)315.6 (789/100 g)
Reduced-Fat Milk412 gF005614 — Milk, cow, fluid, reduced fat (~1%)745.7 (181/100 g)178.2 (43.3/100 g)13.6 (3.3/100 g)19.8 (4.8/100 g)0 (0/100 g)4.9 (1.2/100 g)148.3 (36/100 g)473.8 (115/100 g)642.7 (156/100 g)
Water150 gF009527 — Water, tap0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)4.5 (3/100 g)3 (2/100 g)0 (0/100 g)
Apple200 gF000106 — Apple, raw, not further defined454 (227/100 g)108.5 (54.3/100 g)0.6 (0.3/100 g)23.8 (11.9/100 g)4.8 (2.4/100 g)0 (0/100 g)2 (1/100 g)8 (4/100 g)220 (110/100 g)
Ground Cinnamon2 gF002963 — Cinnamon, dried, ground20.1 (1004/100 g)4.8 (240/100 g)0.1 (4/100 g)0.6 (27.5/100 g)1.1 (53.1/100 g)0 (1.2/100 g)0.2 (10/100 g)20 (1002/100 g)8.6 (431/100 g)
Salt0.5 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)190.8 (38168/100 g)0.2 (34/100 g)0.5 (98/100 g)
Whole recipe3581.8856.133.195.318.833.7347.7647.81466.4
Per serving (÷ 2)1790.942816.647.79.416.9173.8323.9733.2

Oxalate

103 mg per serving (206 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)
Almonds40 gas weighed369148
Rolled Oats90 gas weighed3229
Ground Cinnamon2 gas weighed107221
Reduced-Fat Milk412 gas weighed14
Apple200 gas weighed24
Water150 gcarries none00
Salt0.5 gas weighed00
Per serving (÷ 2)103
Rolled Oats
The OHF has no rolled-oat row. Oat flour is the same grain milled finer and is weighed dry as rolled oats are, so the basis matches even though the grind does not.
Water
Tap water carries no oxalate: oxalate is a plant metabolite and drinking water is not a plant.

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.

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.

Rolled Oats
Recipes weigh dry rolled oats before soaking or cooking; the AUSNUT record is uncooked, and the ledger key is carried over verbatim from the published book.
Almonds
Weighed raw, unsalted and unroasted as the recipes use them, whether whole, halved or roughly chopped; roasting in a dry pan changes flavour but not the weighed composition basis.
Reduced-Fat Milk
Ingredient name specifies reduced fat, so the ~1% fluid cow's milk record is used rather than the regular-fat record that serves the plain milk ingredient.
Water
Contributes no energy or nutrients but mapped honestly rather than skipped; tap water is what the recipes use, and the ledger left this unkeyed.
Apple
Recipes weigh raw apple, peeled or unpeeled depending on the dish; the not-further-defined raw record covers both and matches the ledger key used for the published psoriasis book.
Ground Cinnamon
Measured dry from the jar in 0.5-3 g amounts; 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.