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Wholegrain Toast with White Bean Mash and 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)
No-Added-Salt Cannellini Beans400 gF000437 — Bean, haricot or cannellini, dried, boiled, microwaved or steamed, drained1856 (464/100 g)443.6 (110.9/100 g)32.8 (8.2/100 g)50.4 (12.6/100 g)35.2 (8.8/100 g)2.8 (0.7/100 g)32 (8/100 g)228 (57/100 g)1360 (340/100 g)
Wholegrain Bread160 gF001553 — Bread, wholemeal, commercial1588.8 (993/100 g)379.7 (237.3/100 g)16.6 (10.4/100 g)62.7 (39.2/100 g)11 (6.9/100 g)4 (2.5/100 g)668.8 (418/100 g)212.8 (133/100 g)339.2 (212/100 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)
Olive Oil27 gF006177 — Oil, olive997.7 (3695/100 g)238.4 (883.1/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)27 (99.9/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)
Garlic5 gF004193 — Garlic, peeled, raw26.1 (522/100 g)6.2 (124.8/100 g)0.3 (6.1/100 g)0.5 (10.2/100 g)0.8 (16.9/100 g)0.1 (2.8/100 g)0.4 (8/100 g)1.5 (30/100 g)25.5 (510/100 g)
Lemon Juice20 gF004726 — Juice, lemon22.2 (111/100 g)5.3 (26.5/100 g)0.1 (0.6/100 g)0.4 (1.8/100 g)0.4 (2/100 g)0 (0.1/100 g)0.6 (3/100 g)4 (20/100 g)28 (140/100 g)
Flat Leaf Parsley12 gF006321 — Parsley, fresh, raw18 (150/100 g)4.3 (35.9/100 g)0.5 (3.9/100 g)0.1 (1.1/100 g)0.6 (5/100 g)0.1 (0.7/100 g)18 (150/100 g)14.4 (120/100 g)79.2 (660/100 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 recipe4733.81131.452.6122.952.334925.6495.92482.4
Per serving (÷ 2)2366.9565.726.361.426.217462.8247.91241.2

Oxalate

225 mg per serving (450 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)
No-Added-Salt Cannellini Beans400 gas weighed89356
Wholegrain Bread160 gas weighed3556
Cherry Tomatoes250 gas weighed923
Flat Leaf Parsley12 gas weighed11013
Olive Oil27 gas weighed51
Garlic5 gas weighed90
Lemon Juice20 gas weighed10
Salt0.5 gas weighed00
Per serving (÷ 2)225

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.

No-Added-Salt Cannellini Beans
Used where a recipe specifies canned no-added-salt cannellini or white beans, drained and rinsed. Mapped to the dried-boiled record rather than the canned one, which carries 270 mg of sodium per 100 g from brine the recipe pours away. The same rule the frozen peas and the corn already follow. A real no-added-salt can retains a little sodium from its packing water, so this understates slightly rather than overstating by ten times.
Wholegrain Bread
Weighed as bought to serve alongside; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
Cherry Tomatoes
Weighed raw whole or halved before roasting; 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.
Garlic
Weighed or counted as raw peeled cloves before cooking; 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.
Flat Leaf Parsley
Weighed raw as fresh leaves for finishing; 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.