How we count the numbers

Worked out from the ingredients, never typed in

Each recipe lists its raw ingredients with quantities. The book kit multiplies each quantity by that ingredient’s nutrition per 100 g, adds them up for the whole recipe and divides by the number of servings. Every recipe serves 2, so “per person” and “per serving” are the same. The cost is worked out the same way, from a table of prices.

Where the nutrition values come from

• Budget Gym Kitchen and every book after it: the Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 (IFCT 2017, ICMR–National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad), and USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy) only for foods IFCT does not list, such as curd, oats and soya chunks. The source of every value is recorded.
• Book 1, 30 Days of Delicious Indian Home Cooking: written before the series and its sourcing rules, it uses typical nutrition values per ingredient. Its figures are good estimates for planning a day, not lab values.

Rounding, and what is left out

In the fitness books, from Book 2 on:

• Figures are approximate: energy is rounded to the nearest 10 kcal and grams to the nearest whole gram, so there is no false precision.
• For fried food, only the oil the food absorbs is counted, and the book says how much.
• If an ingredient has no reliable value, the recipe’s figures are left out rather than guessed.
• A recipe is labelled “protein-rich” only if the numbers earn it: at least 20 g protein per serving for a main meal, or 10 g for a breakfast side or a snack. The rule is printed in the book.

What the cost means

Costs come from a dated price table for a town in Andhra Pradesh or Telangana in 2026, and the books print the prices they use. Your shop will differ by place and season, so treat a cost as a guide, and redo it with your own prices if you like.

The figures on this website

The protein, kcal and cost shown on this site are read from the finished PDF, so they match the book you download exactly. Where a book shows no figures here yet, they have not been read from its PDF: we never show draft numbers that might change.

What the books never claim

• That a food or recipe “builds muscle”, “burns fat” or transforms your body.
• A calorie, protein or macro target that suits everyone. Where a book uses a number, it states what it assumes and says that needs differ.
• That a recipe was tested in a test kitchen.
• Supplements, detoxes or extreme diets.
• That a picture is a photograph: every dish picture is a drawn illustration and is labelled as one.

What you get from food depends on your whole diet, how you train, recovery, sleep and health. Kitchen Fit books are general food and cooking guidance, not medical or dietetic advice. Nutrition figures are estimates worked out from the listed ingredient quantities, and everyone's needs differ. If you have a medical condition, a food allergy or an eating disorder, or are pregnant, talk to a doctor or a registered dietitian before you change how you eat. See the health disclaimer.