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Smooth Oat and Banana Porridge with Milk: where the numbers come from

Each ingredient is matched to a record in the Australian food-composition data, that record's per-100 g values are scaled to the weight the recipe uses, the results are added, and the total is divided by 2 servings. This page shows all of it, so the estimate can be checked rather than taken on trust.

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Per ingredient

IngredientWeightComposition recordEnergy (kJ)Energy (kcal)Protein (g)Carbohydrate (g)Fibre (g)Fat (g)Sodium (mg)Calcium (mg)Potassium (mg)
Rolled Oats85 gF006143 — Oats, rolled, uncooked1329.4 (1564/100 g)317.7 (373.8/100 g)10.4 (12.2/100 g)46.3 (54.5/100 g)8.1 (9.5/100 g)8.1 (9.5/100 g)1.7 (2/100 g)34 (40/100 g)263.5 (310/100 g)
Reduced-Fat Milk412 gF005614 — Milk, cow, fluid, reduced fat (~1%)745.7 (181/100 g)178.2 (43.3/100 g)13.6 (3.3/100 g)19.8 (4.8/100 g)0 (0/100 g)4.9 (1.2/100 g)148.3 (36/100 g)473.8 (115/100 g)642.7 (156/100 g)
Banana120 gF000262 — Banana, cavendish, peeled, raw478.8 (399/100 g)114.4 (95.4/100 g)1.7 (1.4/100 g)23.9 (19.9/100 g)2.6 (2.2/100 g)0.2 (0.2/100 g)0 (0/100 g)6 (5/100 g)417.6 (348/100 g)
Skim Milk Powder65 gF005652 — Milk, powder, cow, skim987.4 (1519/100 g)236 (363/100 g)22.7 (34.9/100 g)36.4 (56/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0.5 (0.8/100 g)273 (420/100 g)715 (1100/100 g)1170 (1800/100 g)
Honey65 gF004380 — Honey755.3 (1162/100 g)180.5 (277.7/100 g)0.2 (0.3/100 g)47 (72.3/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)5.2 (8/100 g)5.2 (8/100 g)42.9 (66/100 g)
Unsalted Butter18 gF001971 — Butter, plain, no added salt552.4 (3069/100 g)132 (733.5/100 g)0.2 (1.1/100 g)0.1 (0.6/100 g)0 (0/100 g)14.8 (82.2/100 g)1.8 (10/100 g)3.1 (17/100 g)4.1 (23/100 g)
Ground Cinnamon1 gF002963 — Cinnamon, dried, ground10 (1004/100 g)2.4 (240/100 g)0 (4/100 g)0.3 (27.5/100 g)0.5 (53.1/100 g)0 (1.2/100 g)0.1 (10/100 g)10 (1002/100 g)4.3 (431/100 g)
Salt0.3 gF007878 — Salt, table, iodised0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)0 (0/100 g)114.5 (38168/100 g)0.1 (34/100 g)0.3 (98/100 g)
Whole recipe48591161.348.8173.811.228.6544.61247.22545.5
Per serving (÷ 2)2429.5580.724.486.95.614.3272.3623.61272.7

Oxalate

26 mg per serving (51 mg for the whole recipe, divided by 2). This comes from the Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation list rather than the Australian composition data above, which does not carry oxalate.

IngredientWeightBasismg per 100 gContributes (mg)
Rolled Oats85 gas weighed3227
Ground Cinnamon1 gas weighed107211
Banana120 gas weighed56
Reduced-Fat Milk412 gas weighed14
Honey65 gas weighed32
Skim Milk Powder65 gas weighed11
Unsalted Butter18 gas weighed20
Salt0.3 gas weighed00
Per serving (÷ 2)26
Rolled Oats
The OHF has no rolled-oat row. Oat flour is the same grain milled finer and is weighed dry as rolled oats are, so the basis matches even though the grind does not.
Skim Milk Powder
The OHF has no milk powder. Fluid milk is used, which understates the powder per gram because the water has been removed from it.

Oxalate in a plant moves with variety, ripeness, soil and cooking, and what you absorb depends on the calcium eaten in the same meal rather than on the figure alone. The full table and what it is worth.

Why these records

Where a generic database item cannot represent an ingredient exactly, the choice is recorded with the ingredient rather than left to inference.

Rolled Oats
Recipes weigh dry rolled oats before soaking or cooking; the AUSNUT record is uncooked, and the ledger key is carried over verbatim from the published book.
Reduced-Fat Milk
Ingredient name specifies reduced fat, so the ~1% fluid cow's milk record is used rather than the regular-fat record that serves the plain milk ingredient.
Banana
Weighed as peeled raw banana before mashing; mashing does not change composition. Ledger key carried over verbatim.
Skim Milk Powder
Weighed as dry powder before it is whisked into liquid milk to fortify it; the skim powder record matches the nonfat dry milk the recipes specify.
Honey
Weighed or measured straight from the jar; ledger key carried over verbatim, and the plain honey record is preferred over the raw honey entry.
Unsalted Butter
Ingredient name specifies unsalted, so the plain no-added-salt butter record is used rather than the salted or not-further-defined records.
Ground Cinnamon
Measured dry from the jar in 0.5-3 g amounts; ledger key carried over verbatim from the published book.
Salt
Weighed or added to taste from the packet; iodised table salt matches the fine salt the recipes specify, and the ledger key is carried over verbatim.

What this is and is not

These figures match the ones shown on the recipe page exactly, because both come from this same arithmetic.

A composition database gives representative values for a food, not an analysis of your tin, your loaf or your cut of meat. Brands differ, produce varies, and yields change with how long something cooked and how hard it was drained. Treat every figure here as an estimate of the right order rather than a measurement, and where a number matters clinically, take it to whoever is managing your care. CERNERE publishes the working so it can be argued with, not to imply a precision food does not have.