Setting the yield for a cooked recipe adjusts the total weight, water and alcohol values that would be lost or gained during the cooking process. In turn, this changes the concentration of the recipe's other nutrients.
You can enter the yield as a percentage of the final recipe weight or by entering the recipe's final weight in grams.
To enter or edit the yield for a recipe
- Open the recipe.
- On the Ingredients tab, toggle to choose Yield (%) or Final weight (g).
- Enter the yield as a percentage of the ingoing weight or as a final weight in grams.
- Changes are saved automatically.
How yield will impact the recipe nutrition composition
Yield (%)
The percentage yield represents the percentage of the recipe's ingoing weight that remains after cooking. This weight change is accounted for by removing the volatile nutrients of a recipe: water and alcohol.
The percentage yield represents the percentage of the recipe's ingoing weight that remains after cooking. This weight change is accounted for by removing the volatile nutrients of a recipe: water and alcohol.
Yield (%) = Final weight (g) / Raw weight (g) x 100
Therefore, if:
Raw weight = 1000g
Final weight = 900g
Yield = 900g / 1000g x 100
∴ Yield = 90%
Final weight (g)
If you do not know the yield percentage, Foodworks can calculate the yield for you. Foodworks will divide the final weight by the weight of the ingoing ingredients to determine the yield.
If you do not know the yield percentage, Foodworks can calculate the yield for you. Foodworks will divide the final weight by the weight of the ingoing ingredients to determine the yield.
Notes
- All recipes must have a value set for either Yield (%) or Final weight (g).
- By default, the value for yield is set to 100%. This means the water and alcohol content reflects the composition of the ingoing ingredients.
- If you change the yield or final weight and no longer wish to keep these changes, simply reset the Yield (%) to 100.
- Do not enter a yield greater than 100%. If a food gains water during cooking, you should add water gained as an ingredient in the recipe.
- A yield of 100% means that the recipe has not lost any weight during cooking (or has not been cooked at all).
About yield and the nutrition analysis
When a recipe is cooked it usually loses some weight in moisture. When you set a yield on a recipe in Foodworks it has the following effects:
- Alcohol and water are reduced in the calculated nutritional composition. Alcohol is preferentially removed before water. Energy is adjusted as alcohol is removed.
- The final weight of the recipe is reduced and therefore the concentration of other nutrients is increased.
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