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Roast Salmon with Warm Potato and Dill: 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)
Salmon Fillet240 gF007827 — Salmon, Atlantic, raw2316 (965/100 g)553.5 (230.6/100 g)49.2 (20.5/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)40.1 (16.7/100 g)76.8 (32/100 g)115.2 (48/100 g)878.4 (366/100 g)
Potato450 gF007325 — Potato, pale skin, peeled, raw1089 (242/100 g)260.3 (57.8/100 g)9 (2/100 g)51.8 (11.5/100 g)5 (1.1/100 g)0 (0/100 g)18 (4/100 g)13.5 (3/100 g)1710 (380/100 g)
Low-Fat Yoghurt130 gF009688 — Yoghurt, natural, low fat (<0.5%)299 (230/100 g)71.5 (55/100 g)7.7 (5.9/100 g)7.7 (5.9/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0.4 (0.3/100 g)109.2 (84/100 g)304.2 (234/100 g)384.8 (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)
Dill10 gF003509 — Dill, fresh, raw17 (170/100 g)4.1 (40.6/100 g)0.3 (3.4/100 g)0.3 (2.5/100 g)0.3 (3.3/100 g)0.1 (1.2/100 g)4.2 (42/100 g)17 (170/100 g)37 (370/100 g)
Lemon Juice15 gF004726 — Juice, lemon16.7 (111/100 g)4 (26.5/100 g)0.1 (0.6/100 g)0.3 (1.8/100 g)0.3 (2/100 g)0 (0.1/100 g)0.5 (3/100 g)3 (20/100 g)21 (140/100 g)
Olive Oil14 gF006177 — Oil, olive517.3 (3695/100 g)123.6 (883.1/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)14 (99.9/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 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 recipe43301034.967.561.77.754.7605.3480.23236.2
Per serving (÷ 2)2165517.433.830.93.827.4302.7240.11618.1

Oxalate

68 mg per serving (136 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)
Potato450 gas weighed23104
Dill10 gas weighed14515
Salmon Fillet240 gas weighed37
Cucumber150 gas weighed46
Low-Fat Yoghurt130 gas weighed34
Olive Oil14 gas weighed51
Lemon Juice15 gas weighed10
Salt1 gas weighed00
Per serving (÷ 2)68

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.

Salmon Fillet
Weighed raw as fresh fillet before cooking; the Atlantic salmon raw record matches the record used for this ingredient and is preferred over the canned and cooked variants.
Potato
Weighed raw, peeled and diced, before boiling or roasting; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
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.
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.
Lemon Juice
Measured as squeezed juice, not whole fruit; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
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.
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.