Nutrition Facts Guide

This guide explains what a nutrition figure in SmartFood represents. It is a reading aid for foods, dishes, and menus, not personal dietary or medical advice.

How to read SmartFood nutrition figures

Each nutrition figure in SmartFood is an amount recorded for a specific food, dish, or menu. The label beside it tells you the basis: per 100 g, the whole dish, a serving, or the whole menu.

Compare figures only when they use the same basis. A whole dish and a per 100 g food answer different questions.

Energy

SmartFood stores and displays energy in kilocalories (kcal).

A calorie figure is the energy recorded for that food, dish, or menu. It does not say what you should eat.

Protein, fat and carbohydrates

Protein, fat, and carbohydrates are recorded in grams.

They describe composition. SmartFood does not turn them into a meal plan or a judgement about the food.

Fiber

Fiber is recorded in grams, separately from the carbohydrate figure.

Foods can be grouped as high in fiber using SmartFood’s existing food criterion. This page does not define a second cutoff.

Vitamins and minerals

Vitamins and minerals appear in SmartFood only when they are part of the published nutrition list. A line shows the recorded amount and its unit.

A recorded amount is not advice to eat more or less of that nutrient.

SmartFood publishes these vitamins and minerals: Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Vitamin B9 (Folate), Vitamin B12, Iron, Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Zinc.

Per 100 g and unconfirmed basis

Product nutrition has a measurement basis. SmartFood describes a product as per 100 g only when that basis is supported.

A product measured as 100 ml keeps an unconfirmed nutrition basis. SmartFood does not convert millilitres into grams, and it does not invent a volume basis.

When the basis is unconfirmed, do not read those figures as a per 100 g comparison.

Whole dish and serving

Stored nutrition for a dish is the whole dish.

When the dish has valid serving information, SmartFood can also show a serving view. Those per-serving values are derived from the whole-dish figures.

If serving information is missing or cannot be used, SmartFood does not invent a serving. The whole dish remains the figure you see.

Menu nutrition is the total of the dishes on that menu. It describes the entire menu.

That total is not automatically an amount per person, per day, or per serving.

Recorded zero, partial data and unavailable data

A recorded zero is real data: the amount was entered as zero.

Missing data is not zero. If SmartFood has no recorded amount, it does not show that gap as 0.

Partial micronutrient coverage means only some of the contributing foods have a recorded amount. The figure is not a complete account of every ingredient.

Unavailable data must not be read as a complete zero.

Confidence in the measurement basis and completeness of micronutrient coverage are separate. One can be supported while the other is only partial.

How SmartFood discovery works

The Nutrition page groups the vitamins, minerals, protein, and fiber that SmartFood publishes, and it shows how many products or dishes have recorded data.

Those recorded-data counts are not a promise of how many products the catalog will list. Amount comparisons for products also require a supported measurement basis, so the catalog can be smaller than the count on the Nutrition page.

A catalog link for a vitamin or mineral looks for foods with a recorded amount. It does not mean those foods are high in that vitamin or mineral. SmartFood uses a high-amount criterion only where one exists.

High-protein foods and high-fiber foods use those food criteria. High-protein recipes are recipes carrying that label. They do not use the food protein criterion.

SmartFood includes foods with a recorded protein amount of at least 15 g in this collection.

SmartFood includes foods with a recorded fiber amount of at least 5 g in this collection.

This collection includes recipes labelled “high-protein” in SmartFood. Selection does not use a minimum protein amount. Open a recipe to see its nutrition information.

What SmartFood does not tell you

SmartFood explains recorded nutrition figures. It does not diagnose, prescribe, or tell you what you should eat.

It does not classify foods as healthy or unhealthy.

It does not fill missing nutrients with zero, invent a serving, or turn 100 ml into a weight.

For decisions about your own diet, talk with a qualified professional.