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We Build a Canonical Recipe
Each dish page points to a Bonutivo homemade recipe archetype — not a random blog post. Regional home style, cooking method, water/oil, and servings are fixed for that published version.
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How We Calculate Nutrition
Every nutrition value on Bonutivo is built from a transparent, reproducible process — not estimated by AI.
Unlike sites that invent macros for a dish name, we start from measured ingredients, a fixed homemade recipe version, cooking science, and pinned reference data. The number you see can be explained step by step.
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Real IngredientsMeasured accurately2
Cooking EffectsYield & retention considered3
Verified NutritionCalculated, validated & versioned4
Scientific DataTrusted food composition sources✓
Our PromiseEvery number is explainable. Every calculation is verifiable. Every update is transparent.Our 7-Step Nutrition Process
From ingredients to trustworthy nutrition on your plate.
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Every Ingredient Has a Scientific Identity
Kitchen names (rava, sooji, suji) resolve to one ingredient identity with IFCT-oriented composition per 100 g raw — so aliases never silently change the macros.
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We Account for Cooking
Raw weight is not the same as what lands on the plate. Yield and retention factors adjust mass and nutrients for boiling, tempering, shallow frying, and similar home methods.
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Nutrition Is Calculated
Calories, protein, carbs, fat, fibre, sodium, and sugar are computed from the canonical recipe lines plus pinned calculator rules (including Atwater energy checks).
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Every Calculation Is Validated
Ingredient completeness, unit conversions, oil/water consistency, and batch checks must pass before a result can be published to the catalog.
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Every Result Is Versioned
Published snapshots cite a calculator release and reference dataset package. When science or a recipe improves, we ship a new version instead of silently editing the old one.
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Every Number Can Be Traced
From the dish page you can follow the chain that produced the macros:
Recipe used
Ingredient sources
Nutrition references
Calculator release
Validation results
Dataset version
How We Build Trust
Two independent assessments keep our system honest and transparent.
Recipe Quality
- Canonical homemade recipe present
- Ingredient lines normalized
- Multiple honest source tags
- Cooking method & yields recorded
- Regional home-style note attached
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Calculation Quality
- Deterministic calculator path
- Yield & retention coverage
- Unit conversion checks
- Atwater / batch validations
- Pinned calculator release id
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Both qualities matter
A beautiful recipe with a broken calculation is useless. A perfect calculator on a vague recipe is also useless. Dish pages show both Recipe Quality and Calculation Quality so you can see where trust comes from.
Designed for Continuous Improvement
Nutrition science and home cooking both move — our catalog is built to update without hiding the trail.
Nutrition science evolves
New retention research or composition updates become a new reference release, not a silent overwrite.
Recipes evolve
When a homemade pattern changes, we publish a new canonical version and keep the history.
Reference databases improve
IFCT / NIN-oriented packages are pinned so old snapshots stay reproducible.
Transparency always
Explainable steps beat black-box AI nutrition guesses for household decisions.
Our Goal
Give every family explainable, reproducible, and auditable nutrition for the homemade dishes they actually cook — so choosing better food feels calm, not mysterious.