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Soufflé Omelette with Cheddar & Slow-Cooked Tomato: 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)
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)
Cherry Tomatoes250 gF009190 — Tomato, cherry or grape, raw225 (90/100 g)53.8 (21.5/100 g)2.3 (0.9/100 g)8.8 (3.5/100 g)4.3 (1.7/100 g)0 (0/100 g)15 (6/100 g)35 (14/100 g)650 (260/100 g)
Fresh Basil6 gF000396 — Basil, green, fresh, raw5.6 (94/100 g)1.3 (22.5/100 g)0.2 (2.6/100 g)0 (0.2/100 g)0.2 (3.3/100 g)0 (0.5/100 g)0.6 (10/100 g)13.2 (220/100 g)26.4 (440/100 g)
Egg204 gF003729 — Egg, chicken, whole, raw1087.3 (533/100 g)259.9 (127.4/100 g)25.7 (12.6/100 g)0.6 (0.3/100 g)0 (0/100 g)17.3 (8.5/100 g)306 (150/100 g)95.9 (47/100 g)285.6 (140/100 g)
Unsalted Butter20 gF001971 — Butter, plain, no added salt613.8 (3069/100 g)146.7 (733.5/100 g)0.2 (1.1/100 g)0.1 (0.6/100 g)0 (0/100 g)16.4 (82.2/100 g)2 (10/100 g)3.4 (17/100 g)4.6 (23/100 g)
Cheddar50 gF002414 — Cheese, cheddar, natural, plain843 (1686/100 g)201.5 (403/100 g)12.3 (24.6/100 g)0.2 (0.3/100 g)0 (0/100 g)16.7 (33.4/100 g)343 (686/100 g)380 (760/100 g)36.5 (73/100 g)
Soft Bread90 gF001463 — Bread, white, commercial945 (1050/100 g)225.9 (251/100 g)8.6 (9.5/100 g)41.6 (46.2/100 g)2.9 (3.2/100 g)1.8 (2/100 g)395.1 (439/100 g)75.6 (84/100 g)117 (130/100 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 recipe4384.9104849.251.27.370.31252.5603.31120.6
Per serving (÷ 2)2192.452424.625.63.735.1626.3301.6560.3

Oxalate

27 mg per serving (54 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)
Cherry Tomatoes250 gas weighed923
Soft Bread90 gas weighed2422
Fresh Basil6 gas weighed1338
Cheddar50 gas weighed21
Olive Oil18 gas weighed51
Unsalted Butter20 gas weighed20
Egg204 gas weighed00
Salt0.5 gas weighed00
Per serving (÷ 2)27

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.

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.
Cherry Tomatoes
Weighed raw whole or halved before roasting; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
Fresh Basil
Weighed raw as fresh leaves, chopped at the end of cooking; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
Egg
Whole eggs counted or weighed raw without shell before cooking; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
Unsalted Butter
Ingredient name specifies unsalted, so the plain no-added-salt butter record is used rather than the salted or not-further-defined records.
Cheddar
Ingredient name does not specify reduced fat, so the regular-fat natural cheddar record is taken per the house rule; one recipe line does say reduced-fat, and the regular-fat record is the more conservative choice on energy and saturated fat.
Soft Bread
Recipe lines say soft white sandwich bread with crusts removed, weighed as bought; the commercial white bread record is used rather than the wholemeal record that serves wholegrain-bread.
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.