Find Nutrient Dense Food Sources - NUTRI 300 - Professor Lopez (Spring 2024) - ARC Research Guides at American River College

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Nutrition Calculators

You can use the nutrition calculators below to input your recipe and determine the recipe's nutrition and calorie information. Try out all 3 to get a sense of how each of them works.

Google

Use the Google tips outlined below to search for a variety of nutrient dense foods.

Photos

You can use the photo sources below to access free images for each of the dishes you selected.

Blogs

If you're looking for a recipe to key into the nutrition calculators, you can explore these blogs (or search Instagram or Google, etc.) for recipes that reflect foods you eat at home or are interested in learning more about.

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Nutrition Calculators

VeryWell Fit
Verywell Fit analyzes and generates nutrient information for your recipe.
Note: This tool doesn't utilize a spell checker.

Whisk
Copy the URL from a website with a recipe and access its nutritional infomation.
What I Like: It's super fast -- copy, paste, and click!
Nutrition Value
Nutrition calculator and recipe builder.
What I Like: This tool generates a broad range of minerals and vitamins for the ingredients you input

Google Searches

Try using some of the following Google search tips to find nutirent dsense food sources.

Find nutrient dense food sources:

nutrient dense food

Find nutrient dense food sources from a particular country, region, or community:

Find nutrient dense food sources for a particular mineral or vitamin:

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Blogs

Analida's Ethnic Spoon
Offers self described "easy ethnic recipes from around the world".
About Analida: "I now live in the United States but I am originally from Panamá and lived in Europe for 4 years. My travels have taken me all over the USA, Canada, Ireland, Europe, Russia, UK, Latin America and Southeast Asia."
Budget Bytes
Designed with college students in mind, Budget Bytes' blogger, Beth, includes the cost per meal and per serving, and each recipe provides all the nutritional information.
Junblog
Jun "didn’t know his way in the kitchen until he moved from Manila to California...and lived on his own. Junblog is his personal collection of how-to’s and ABC’s of Filipino cuisine peppered with funny but oftentimes sentimental anecdotes."
Muy Delish
Blogger Ana Frias has this to say about her site: "This is my little place where I share mostly Mexican recipes that are easy to make."
My African Food Map
Blogger Tuleka Prah, travels the continent once a month to showcase the best local recipes in each African country. So far, she's featured: Senegal, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Ghana

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NUTRI 300 - Professor Lopez (Spring 2024): Find Nutrient Dense Food Sources