The Cook EZ blog

Kitchen writing with named sources. Technique, nutrition literacy, and meal planning. No doorway posts.

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• Nutrition literacy

  How to estimate portion sizes when the scale is in the other room

  Hand heuristics, cooked versus raw FoodData Central rows, restaurant plates, and when to stop guessing and weigh.

• Nutrition literacy

  Why calorie apps disagree, and how to be less wrong

  Database mismatch, serving-size law, cooked water, restaurant oil, and TDEE equations. How to log in Cook EZ without treating the number as a lab assay.

• Nutrition literacy

  What TDEE actually means (and what Mifflin-St Jeor is doing)

  Resting energy, activity factors, the 1990 Mifflin-St Jeor paper, and how to use a calorie calculator without treating it like a metabolic ward.

• Nutrition literacy

  Protein without the hype: grams, cooked yields, and a normal plate

  RDA versus training targets, FoodData Central cooked values, legumes and tofu, and how to cook protein so you do not drown it in sugary sauce.

• Nutrition literacy

  Reading a Nutrition Facts label like a cook, not like a billboard

  Serving size, dual columns, added sugars, %DV, ingredients lists, and how to map a label onto FoodData Central logging and Cook EZ barcodes.