Why: Understanding meal plan nutrition summaries helps you provide your members with clear insights into their daily intake, enhancing their experience and engagement with your content.
Navigate: App Station > Content Library > Meal Plans > [Meal Plan]
Quick Start
Open the Meal Plan editor.
Navigate to the Layout tab.
Toggle "Show Daily Macro Summary" to enable it.
Save your changes.
View the daily nutrition summaries in your meal plan.
Daily Macro Summary
The meal plan nutrition system provides daily summaries of macronutrients for each day in your meal plan. This includes:
Calories
Protein (grams)
Carbs (grams)
Fat (grams)
These summaries automatically update when you add or remove recipes or change their nutrition data.
Important Note
The daily nutrition summary always displays per-serving values. Adjusting the servings count for a recipe in the meal plan does not change the nutrition summary; it only affects shopping list quantities. To modify nutrition values, you must edit the recipe's nutrition directly.
Enabling Daily Macro Summaries
To enable daily macro summaries in your meal plans:
Open the Meal Plan editor.
Go to the Layout tab.
Toggle on "Show Daily Macro Summary".
Your setting will be saved automatically.
Nutrition Calculation
How Nutrition is Calculated
Nutrition data for each recipe in a meal plan is determined by either stored values or calculated from ingredients. Here's how it works:
The system fetches meal plan recipes along with their nutrition data.
If a recipe has an override, it uses the stored nutrition values.
If not, it calculates nutrition based on the ingredients and any component recipes included.
Daily totals are aggregated and displayed.
Component Recipes
When a recipe includes component recipes (like a dressing for a salad), their nutrition is automatically included in the calculations. The system calculates the proportion of the component used and scales its nutrition accordingly.
Example Calculation:
If a dressing recipe yields 3 cups and you use 1 cup in your salad, the system calculates the ratio (1 cup / 3 cups = 0.33) and scales the nutrition of the dressing by this ratio.
Servings in Meal Plans
The servings field for recipes primarily affects shopping list quantities. However, you can toggle the nutrition display between two modes:
Per Serving (default): Shows the sum of per-serving values for all recipes.
Daily Total: Multiplies each recipe's per-serving nutrition by the number of servings in the meal plan.
To change base nutrition values, edit the recipe's nutrition data directly in the recipe editor.
Macro Display Toggle
When you enable the daily macro summary, a toggle allows you to switch between "Per Serving" and "Daily Total" views. This toggle affects all summaries on the page simultaneously and resets on page reload.
Per Serving: Displays what one serving of each recipe provides.
Daily Total: Shows total nutrition for all servings prepared that day.
Related Features
Recipe Nutrition - Learn how to manage nutrition at the recipe level.
Recipe Components - Understand how to use component recipes effectively.
Ingredient Management - Get insights on managing ingredient nutrition data.