How nutrition and allergen estimates work

Each recipe gets an estimated nutrition card: calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, sugar, sodium and more. It's worked out from the ingredients and their amounts, so it's a helpful guide, not a lab measurement.

Read the nutrition card

• The calories per serving show under the recipe's title, like "≈ 450 kcal/serving". For a recipe with options, you'll see the range across them.
• Scroll down past the steps to Nutrition for the full card. Tap Show more for less common fats, minerals and vitamins.
• A line under the numbers says where they come from, and which ingredients had guessed amounts or weren't counted.
• When some amounts are vague, you'll see a range, like "≈ 560–700 kcal".

A recipe with no serving count (like a sauce) shows nutrition for the whole recipe.

Compare with your own daily goals

1. Open Settings, then Nutrition

   By default, percentages compare with standard daily values.

2. Turn on Use my daily goals

   Enter your own targets for energy, protein, carbs, fat, fiber and sodium, or tap Calculate my targets for an estimate from your age, height, weight, activity and goal.

3. Tap Save

   Recipes now show percentages of your goals. Your goals are private to you.

Allergies and diets

You can save the foods you avoid in SettingsAbout youAllergies & intolerances, and your diet under Diet.

On a shared recipe's web page, likely allergens show as "Contains milk, gluten and soy". The app doesn't highlight allergens on recipes yet.

No nutrition for a recipe?

Phork It! needs to work out most of a recipe's weight to estimate it. If too many ingredients have no amount, the card doesn't show. Adding amounts with Edit usually brings it back; weights work best.