Nutrition Information
Nutrition facts help health-conscious readers and give Google another thing to show in your search result. Recipe Kit can work them out for you, or you can enter them yourself.
Let Recipe Kit calculate it
The fastest route. Add your ingredients first, then:
- Scroll to the Nutrition section of the recipe editor
- Click Analyze
- Review what comes back and save
Recipe Kit reads your ingredient list, works out the nutrition per serving, and fills the fields in. If the recipe already has nutrition data you are asked before it gets replaced, and Re-analyze runs it again after you have changed the ingredients.
You need ingredients on the recipe before analysing. There is nothing to calculate from an empty list.
Monthly allowance
Analyses are capped per month and the remaining count is shown next to the button.
| Plan | Analyses per month |
|---|---|
| Free | 3 |
| Essentials | 3 |
| Advanced | 25 |
| Enterprise | Unlimited |
The count resets each month.
Treat it as a starting point
The figures come from ingredient databases and standard portion sizes. They are good enough for a food blog and they are not a substitute for lab analysis. If you are making a nutrition claim on a product you sell, get it tested properly.
Entering it yourself
Fill any of these in by hand, in the Nutrition section. All values are per serving.
| Field | Unit |
|---|---|
| Calories | kcal |
| Carbs | g |
| Protein | g |
| Fat | g |
| Saturated Fat | g |
| Trans Fat | g |
| Unsaturated Fat | g |
| Cholesterol | mg |
| Sodium | mg |
| Fiber | g |
| Sugar | g |
| Iron | mg |
| Potassium | mg |
You do not have to fill them all in. Empty fields are simply left off the card.
Nutrition serving size
If the nutrition figures are for something other than the recipe's stated servings, set a nutrition serving size to say so. For example a recipe that serves 24 with figures per cookie would read "1 cookie (30g)".
Custom nutrition fields
Add your own labelled values for anything not in the list above.
How it displays
The nutrition panel has three layouts, set per recipe:
| Layout | Looks like |
|---|---|
| Linear | A single flowing row of values. The default |
| Horizontal | Values laid out across the card |
| Vertical | A stacked column, closest to a packaging label |
Which fields are worth filling in
At minimum: calories, protein, carbs, fat, sodium. Those cover most of what readers look for and what Google displays.
Add fiber and sugar if your audience watches carbohydrates, and the fat breakdown if you write heart-healthy recipes.
Translating the labels
Every nutrition label and unit can be renamed or translated in Settings > Translations & Labels: the field names, the unit abbreviations, "per serving" and the daily value header. See Translating Recipe Cards.
What it does for SEO
Nutrition data goes into the Google Recipe Schema Recipe Kit generates. Calories in particular often appear in recipe search results, and a complete recipe is a stronger candidate for the recipe carousel than a sparse one.
See Google Recipe Schema (SEO).
What's next
- Google Recipe Schema (SEO) - What Google does with this data
- Recipe Ingredients - What the analysis reads
- Translating Recipe Cards - Renaming the labels