America’s Test Kitchen - The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook: 500 Vibrant, Kitchen-Tested Recipes for Living and Eating Well Every Day

When developing our recipes for this book, we consulted Oldways to come up with guiding nutritional principles to make sure our recipes would fit into a healthy Mediterranean diet. Although there are no hard-and-fast rules when it comes to nutritional numbers, we tried our best to make sure that every recipe contained reasonable amounts of calories and fat and, most importantly, a limited amount of saturated fat.

Analyzing recipes for their nutritional values is a tricky business, and we did our best to be as realistic and accurate as possible throughout this book. We were absolutely strict about measuring when cooking and never resorted to guessing or estimating. We also didnt play games when analyzing the recipes in the nutritional program to make the numbers look better. To calculate the nutritional values of our recipes per serving, we used The Food Processor SQL by ESHA Research. When using this program, we entered all the ingredients, using weights for important ingredients such as meat, cheese, and most vegetables. We also used all of our preferred brands in these analyses. When the recipe called for seasoning with an unspecified amount of salt and pepper (often raw meat), we added teaspoon of salt and teaspoon of pepper to the analysis. We did not, however, include additional salt or pepper when the food was seasoned to taste at the end of cooking.

Note: Unless otherwise indicated, information applies to a single serving. If there is a range in the serving size in the recipe, we used the highest number of servings to calculate the nutritional values.