Why…. A Soap Box Rant by Eryn
Why do cookbooks and cookbook authors with blogs not post nutritional analysis for their recipes?! This is one of my absolute pet peeves. There are so many cookbooks out there i would buy, but I refuse to do so because there is no nutritional information in them. I wonder how many other people refuse to buy them? I wonder how much money these authors are losing because they do not include that information. The software is out there. It wouldn’t be difficult to get the info and put it in their books. Or on their blogs! Perhaps they’d sell even MORE books if they would include the information on their websites! I’m sure that people trying to lose weight wouldn’t be the only people to benefit from this. Plenty of people try to watch their sodium intake, or calories, or fiber, or whatever!!
In this day in age, when everyone is concerned about the obesity of America, you would think something like that would be required! There wouldn’t be limits. But put the information out there so people can make up their minds what to make or not make. For instance, plenty of people probably make Rachel Ray recipes. I don’t because I can tell just by looking at the ingredients that there is more fat than I want in them, but it would be nice to know for sure what it is. I may be surprised. But instead, I refuse to buy her books. I have a vegan book right now with an awesome looking carrot cake in it that I would LOVE to make, but there isn’t any nutritional information. I’m sure it would be more calories and fat than I would want, but I would still make it and be able to be fully informed about my consumption.
Okay, I’m done. Time to get off the soap box.
Penelope said,
March 23, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
I totally agree with you! I’ve also noticed that in some magazines, they have the nutritional information for some of the recipes, but not for the ones that are OBVIOUSLY higher calories and fat. They need to practice the motto, “Ignorance is NOT bliss!”
On a side note, if you want, you can find a calorie calculator online for recipes. You just put the complete recipe in to the calculator, and it will tell you how many calories per serving the recipe contains. Nifty, hey? I can’t remember the link, but I’m sure that you could Google it.