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YES! You can add custom nutrition. Just remember that the USDA uses 100 gram portions for calculating nutritional information.
1. From either the top "hamburger" bars, or from the Dashboard choose The Optimizer.
2. Choose the Custom Nutrition button
3. Click the green button+ Add Nutrition
4. You add the item name and nutritional code. We will create a code number for you.
The USDA FoodData Central database contains the nutritional information for the USDA Global Branded Food Products Database (Branded Foods), Nutritional info in this database is already in 100 gram portions. Copy those nutrient amounts into the reciProfity Custom Nutrition fields.
If your ingredient is NOT in this database you can get the nutrients from the package label. Just remember that the USDA uses 100 gram portions for calculating nutritional information so you will need to insure that the info you put into Custom Nutrition is per 100 gram serving portions.
Once you have entered and Saved the nutritional information edit the ingredient, scroll to the USDA nutrition field and enter the name of this Custom Nutrition ingredient.
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