How we calculate

What we measure

Every food carries calories and macronutrients (carbohydrate, protein, fat) per named local portion (katori, roti, plate, glass) and per 100 g underneath. We measure portions because people eat katoris, not hectograms.

How a number is made

Each dish starts from standard recipes and published nutrition data for its ingredients, weighed against real serving vessels. The result is reviewed for plausibility against comparable dishes before it is published, and every entry records when it was last updated.

A worked example: roti

A standard tandoori roti weighs about 90 g. Atta contributes roughly 53g of carbohydrate per 100 g, and from the flour, water, and the tandoor's gift of char, the finished roti lands at:

What “about” means

Home cooking varies: the hand pouring the oil, the size of the katori, the generosity of the tarka. Our numbers describe a typical moderate preparation and we say so on the page whenever variance is large. Anyone who gives you biryani calories to the exact digit is guessing with confidence.

Limits, honestly

We don't yet cover every regional dish or every preparation, and restaurant versions of home dishes often run higher than our home-cooking numbers. The database grows every week, prioritised by what people search for and what you tell us is missing.

Corrections

When we find an error, we fix it and say so: corrected pages carry a dated note about what changed. Silent fixes are how reference sources lose trust; we'd rather show our working.

Editorial standards

Health-adjacent content on this site is general education, not medical advice, and stays within that boundary deliberately: no diagnoses, no treatment claims, no miracle language. Content touching medical conditions will be published only with review by a qualified nutrition professional, and we will never print a reviewer's name that doesn't exist.

The calculator and diet plan

The calorie calculator uses the Mifflin-St Jeor equation with standard activity multipliers (the same math used across clinical nutrition) and holds results at safe minimums rather than prescribing very low targets. The 7-day plan is a sample week composed from this database; the mobile app's planner is more sophisticated, and we say so in the plan itself.