Czarnina -- Polish Duck Soup

over 8 years

I investigated the nutrition calculation for the Czarnina recipe in detail.

Some of the ingredients weren't being used in the calculation. This is now fixed and we've recalculated the nutrition information so now all listed ingredients except the spices are included. The water is not included in the weight as it is not listed in the ingredients. However this is of no consequence as water has 0 calories.

Wow. Most definitely this is not a weight watchers recipe. Any recipe that includes spareribs and cream is going to be very high in fat and calories. This recipe also doesn't include the "duck trimmings" listed in the directions either. If one were to use the duck trimmings the fat and calorie content would be much higher. During preparation some of the fat might be skimmed off but still...yowzer.

over 8 years

Your nutritional assessment of the czarnina recipe may be correct, but I question it's accuracy. An 8-oz bowl extrapolated from your figures would contain 742 calories and 42 g of total fat, and be rated at over 17 Weight Watcher points.

I cannot help but wonder if you took into account the weight of the water, which would have been considerable and, if included, would have decreased nutritional values per unit weight. Also how did you determine values for the blood that was used?

If water had, indeed, been factored in then this dish is truly a dieters nightmare!