Micronutrients

I bought BCAA capsules and tried to calculate how much leucine i'm eating per day. Then I thought it would be nice feature to calculate leucine (or micronutrients) from your eatings. So I created a possibility to add micronutrient values to your foods. You can add how much micronutrients there are, for example, in milk. Then when you calculate your calories for certain day, you also see amount of micronutrients you have eaten.

You can set micronutrient-values from "Your foods"-page. Click the food's name and "Add micronutrient"-link will be shown. If you have set "Price/kg" for that food, there is also some pricing information. Picture below will clarify what I'm trying to explain. :)



That "Proteiini Whey" is Whey protein in finnish (as you might have guessed). By clicking that "Add micronutrient"-link you can write micronutrients name and amount. Amount is how much the food contains that specific micronutrient per 100g. So I want to add that my whey protein contains 12.3g of leucine. So I write Leucine for the name, 100 for the value and select "g" from the list. Then click "Add" and we get the following:



You can add as many as you want. I added also Isoleusine (5.5g) and Valine (5.1g). Then you can pick any day from the calendar. For example, click "Today's nutrition" from the menu to select this day. So whenever you add a food, which has micronutrient values, the site calculates total amount of those for that day.

Let's see how it works. I select that Whey protein from "Add food"-table's drop-down-list. I set the amount 100g, so the total value should be the same as we set on "Your foods"-page. If have set portion size, you can also add portions. I have set 30g as portion size for the Whey. It's 1dl of whey, so it's easier for me to add it as portions. You can set portions size also from "Your foods"-page, if you want.



You can add one or more foods for that selected day. Total calories will be shown under those added foods. It says something like "Total: Energy: xxxx kcal, P: xx g (30%) ....". By clicking that you'll see more information about that day's eatings. See picture below.



So you can see I added 100g of Whey at 15:00. So total calories are 390kcal. It also shows that all the foods on that day (in this case, just the Whey) contains 12g of leucine, 5g of isoleucine and 5g of valine.

There is also guide values for that day. For example, I should eat ~3500kcal more to reach my target values. 1000g of Whey would the trick. :) You can set those values from "Guide values"-page. You can create separate values for training- and rest day. Then select starting- and ending date for that value so the site knows which value to show each day.