Compare Pasta Sauce Nutrients

Visualize and compare the protein, fat and carbohydrate composition of popular pasta sauces

When designing a menu, whether for a restaurant, a catering business or a home-cooked meal, there is a wide choice of pastas and sauces to combine for a delicious dish. Consider linguine with clam sauce, ravioli with pesto, rigatoni with arrabbiata sauce, fusilli with puttanesca sauce, penne alla vodka, farfalle with mushroom sauce, and classics like fettuccine Alfredo and spaghetti with marinara sauce. These sauces have different flavor profiles and different nutritional profiles. Use the Wolfram Language to visualize and compare the protein, fat and carbohydrate content of each sauce.

Retrieve the protein, fat and carbohydrate amounts in each sauce. This example uses an average serving size of 5oz sauce:

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sauceStrings={"Alfredo sauce","Arrabbiata sauce","Clam sauce","Four cheese sauce","Fra diavolo sauce","Marinara sauce","Mushroom sauce","Pesto","Puttanesca sauce","Vodka sauce"};sauceData=AssociationThread[sauceStrings,Round[#,0.1]&/@EntityValue[EntityInstance[Interpreter["Food"][#],Quantity[5,"Ounces"]],{"AbsoluteTotalProteinContent","AbsoluteTotalFatContent","AbsoluteTotalCarbohydratesContent"},"PropertyAssociation"]&/@sauceStrings];

Show the data as a dataset:

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Dataset[sauceData]

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Define an association to use as chart labels:

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shortNames="AbsoluteTotalProteinContent""Protein","AbsoluteTotalFatContent""Fat","AbsoluteTotalCarbohydratesContent""Carbs";

Select a sauce in the alphabetical dropdown list to view its pie chart:

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ManipulatePieChartKeyMap[shortNames,sauceData[food]],

,{{food,First@Keys[sauceData],"Select sauce:"},Keys[sauceData]},SaveDefinitionsTrue

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Select and deselect the checkboxes to compare multiple sauces at once:

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Manipulatebar=BarChartReverse[sauceData/@foods],

;Legendedbar,SwatchLegend

,{{foods,Take[Keys[sauceData],4],"Select sauces:"},Keys[sauceData],ControlTypeCheckboxBar},SaveDefinitionsTrue

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Contributed by: Gay Wilson

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Compare Pasta Sauce Nutrients

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