Food Toolkit
How to use
What it does
Calculators for eating and cooking: estimate daily basal and total calorie needs with the Harris-Benedict formula, get a suggested intake and a protein, carbohydrate and fat split for cutting, maintaining or bulking, scale a recipe to a different head count or portion size, and convert between cooking units such as grams, cups, tablespoons and millilitres.
How to use it
Tabs at the top switch between the modules. The calorie tool takes sex, age, height, weight and activity level, then reports a suggested intake and macro split for your chosen goal; the recipe scaler takes the original and new portion counts and recomputes every ingredient proportionally; the unit converter wants an ingredient category plus source and target units — density differs between ingredients, so results shift accordingly.
FAQ
What formula drives the calorie advice, and can I trust it?
The Harris-Benedict formula estimates basal metabolism, then activity level and your goal — cutting, maintaining or bulking — shape the suggested intake and macro split. Treat it as a starting point for planning; individual variation still needs personal tuning.
Why does one cup convert to different gram amounts?
Because ingredients differ in density, the converter makes you pick an ingredient category first; there is no universal cups-to-grams ratio, and skipping that step distorts the result.
Does the recipe scaler change every ingredient equally?
Yes — enter the original and new portion counts and all ingredients are recomputed by the same ratio, which is exactly what you want when the head count changes.
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