Mark_Eichenlaub comments on Low hanging fruit: analyzing your nutrition - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Alexei 05 May 2012 05:20AM

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Comment author: Mark_Eichenlaub 06 May 2012 05:01:25PM *  0 points [-]

WolframAlpha is pretty good for calculating all this automatically - probably much faster than the spreadsheet. For example:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+cup+milk+%2B+8+oz+yogurt+%2B+1+banana+%2B+1+slice+bread+%2B+1+slice+cheese

Comment author: Alexei 06 May 2012 06:52:38PM 1 point [-]

I used wolfram-alpha to get the nutrition information for a banana, but for everything else I have a much more accurate information. However, you are right that using wolfram-alpha can give you a much faster (although rougher) estimate.