Suppose you have a recipe for Roasted Chicken that calls for 1 pound of chicken breasts with bone. For the recipe analysis, you will want the nutrient data for the roasted chicken without bone that will be eaten. Considering the weight of the bone and the meat shrinkage during cooking, the program will tell you that the cooked edible portion of this pound of chicken breasts weighs 9.33 ounces, and will give you the nutritional data for 9.33 ounces of roasted chicken breasts. So, you have selected a food, entered in the raw amount that the recipe called for, and the program has given you the weight and nutritional analysis of the cooked edible portion of the food. The indented yield selections are available for many raw meats in the database.
Yields are also available for vegetables.
Beans, rice and pasta offer yields that take into account the expansion during cooking. There are also prepared yields available for some packaged products. Be sure to look for these and incorporate them into your recipe analyses when you can.