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Salmon and Barley Bowl with Cucumber 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 Fillet260 gF007827 — Salmon, Atlantic, raw2509 (965/100 g)599.7 (230.6/100 g)53.3 (20.5/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)43.4 (16.7/100 g)83.2 (32/100 g)124.8 (48/100 g)951.6 (366/100 g)
Pearl Barley150 gF000379 — Barley, pearl, uncooked2136 (1424/100 g)510.5 (340.3/100 g)14.9 (9.9/100 g)90.9 (60.6/100 g)19.7 (13.1/100 g)4.7 (3.1/100 g)15 (10/100 g)42 (28/100 g)525 (350/100 g)
Cucumber200 gF003320 — Cucumber, common, unpeeled, raw100 (50/100 g)23.9 (12/100 g)1.6 (0.8/100 g)2.4 (1.2/100 g)2.8 (1.4/100 g)0.2 (0.1/100 g)20 (10/100 g)36 (18/100 g)272 (136/100 g)
Baby Spinach80 gF008749 — Spinach, baby, fresh, raw54.4 (68/100 g)13 (16.3/100 g)2.2 (2.8/100 g)0 (0/100 g)2 (2.5/100 g)0 (0/100 g)68.8 (86/100 g)72.8 (91/100 g)488 (610/100 g)
Greek Yoghurt130 gF009655 — Yoghurt, natural, greek style (~10% fat)715 (550/100 g)170.9 (131.5/100 g)6 (4.6/100 g)7.2 (5.5/100 g)0.1 (0.1/100 g)12.7 (9.8/100 g)83.2 (64/100 g)196.3 (151/100 g)299 (230/100 g)
Dill25 gF003509 — Dill, fresh, raw42.5 (170/100 g)10.2 (40.6/100 g)0.9 (3.4/100 g)0.6 (2.5/100 g)0.8 (3.3/100 g)0.3 (1.2/100 g)10.5 (42/100 g)42.5 (170/100 g)92.5 (370/100 g)
Lemon Juice25 gF004726 — Juice, lemon27.8 (111/100 g)6.6 (26.5/100 g)0.2 (0.6/100 g)0.5 (1.8/100 g)0.5 (2/100 g)0 (0.1/100 g)0.8 (3/100 g)5 (20/100 g)35 (140/100 g)
Olive Oil18 gF006177 — Oil, olive665.1 (3695/100 g)159 (883.1/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)18 (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 recipe6249.81493.779101.525.979.3663.1519.72664.1
Per serving (÷ 2)3124.9746.939.550.81339.7331.6259.91332

Oxalate

273 mg per serving (547 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 Spinach80 gas weighed567454
Dill25 gas weighed14536
Pearl Barley150 gweighed dry, ×2.414 to cooked1036
Cucumber200 gas weighed48
Salmon Fillet260 gas weighed38
Greek Yoghurt130 gas weighed34
Olive Oil18 gas weighed51
Lemon Juice25 gas weighed10
Salt1 gas weighed00
Per serving (÷ 2)273
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.

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.
Pearl Barley
Recipe weighs 160 g pearl barley, rinsed, before cooking, so the uncooked record applies; the cooked record already includes absorbed water.
Cucumber
Weighed raw, mostly unpeeled and diced or cut into matchsticks; 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.
Greek Yoghurt
The ingredient is named greek-yoghurt and recipe lines say Greek or greek-style, so the Greek record is the literal match. The psoriasis book ledger used F009694 (natural, regular fat ~4%) instead, which is 73 vs 131 kcal per 100 g; that choice is recorded there and is a book-side question, not a reason to mis-map the site.
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.