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Broccoli and blue cheese frittata – weighed version

Broccoli and blue cheese frittata – weighed version.

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Difficulty: easy
Broccoli and blue cheese frittata – weighed version – serving illustration

Servings in this printout: 4

Ingredients

Servings4
  • 14 g butter, including all pan or dish grease
  • 27.5 g peeled onion
  • 200 g broccoli
  • 330 g egg without shell
  • 150 g liquid whipping cream, 38% fat
  • 100 g regular blue cheese, generic AFCD composition
  • 0.5 g ground black pepper
  • salt to taste

Method

  1. Soften 27.5 g onion in 14 g butter and add 200 g broccoli. Cook the broccoli until tender.
  2. Mix 330 g egg without shell, 150 g cream, 100 g blue cheese and 0.5 g ground black pepper. Pour into a baking dish with the vegetables.
  3. Bake at 200 °C until the egg is fully set. Divide all food and fat into four portions.

Nutrition per serving

Nutrition values are approximate estimates, not laboratory analyses. Products and portion size affect the result.

Net carbs
2.64 g
Total carbohydrates (incl. fibre and polyols)
4 g
Protein
17.97 g
Fat
33.22 g
Modeled GL estimate
about <1 / serving

low GL

Confidence · Low Some values or assumptions in the calculation are uncertain.

The estimate combines ingredient carbohydrate and GI data with modeled assumptions.

Estimate details and sources ↗

How was the estimate calculated?

The serving’s GL is calculated from ingredient data. Confidence describes the evidence behind the calculation. Your blood sugar response may vary.

  • Value used in the model

All available carbohydrate is included, with no small portions omitted. This is a modeled ingredient estimate, not a measured meal response. Biological uncertainty has not been quantified.

Research sources and technical details

Source names and technical notes appear in their original form.

Carbohydrate data sources

GI and calculation sources

  • Unsweetened animal dairy coding assignment · GK80 PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION: Not tested cream, cheese or butter. Excludes plant drinks and sweetened dairy.. Recipe-specific applicability: Explicit DAIRY food ID F500 in the named cooking version; published GI coding/project scope extension, not measured ingredient GI. ; Explicit DAIRY food ID F631 in the named cooking version; published GI coding/project scope extension, not measured ingredient GI. ; Explicit DAIRY food ID A002405 in the named cooking version; published GI coding/project scope extension, not measured ingredient GI. (Low)CALCULATION_POLICY · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION
  • Published assignment for low-carbohydrate vegetables, not measured food GI · GK80 PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION: Coding estimate only. Application to named fresh herbs, sprouts and alliums is an explicit project interpretation. It does not establish a physiological maximum or a one-unit uncertainty bound. Not a default for seed spices, flour, sauces or stock.. Recipe-specific applicability: Explicit NONSTARCHY_VEGETABLE food ID F335 in the named cooking version; published GI coding/project scope extension, not measured ingredient GI. ; Explicit NONSTARCHY_VEGETABLE food ID F324 in the named cooking version; published GI coding/project scope extension, not measured ingredient GI. (Low)CALCULATION_POLICY · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION
  • Named foods with <=5 g available CHO/100 g · GK80 PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION: Published low-carbohydrate default50, applied only to reviewed named compositions <=5 g available CHO/100g. This cutoff is a project rule, not a validated scientific threshold. Explicit AFCD commercial soy sauce and AFCD tahini plus complete Maille Dijon label are allowed, not all brands or pastes. No flour/sugar/honey/syrup or composition-unknown food.. Recipe-specific applicability: Explicit EGG food ID F858 in the named cooking version; published GI coding/project scope extension, not measured ingredient GI. (Low)CALCULATION_POLICY · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION
  • Fixed weighed culinary ground spice, seed or vanilla extract · GK80 PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION: Own project extension of coding default, not measured food GI or directly published Schakel scope. Full composition and consumed grams mandatory; <=0.5 g CHO each and <=1 g aggregate per serving. Includes named vanilla extract, dried herbs and whole seed garnish. Excludes flour, baking powder, bulk paste, sugar, unknown extraction and sticks/pods. No biological error bound. USDA total-carbohydrate minus fibre is a disclosed available-CHO proxy; endogenous polyols unquantified, not asserted zero. This additional proxy use awaits owner method approval.. Recipe-specific applicability: Explicit GROUND_SPICE food ID A006618 in the named cooking version; published GI coding/project scope extension, not measured ingredient GI. (Low)CALCULATION_POLICY · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION

Keto and low-carb labels are editorial classifications. They have not been verified through nutrition calculations for every recipe.

Notes

The GL is a modeled ingredient-sum estimate with low confidence, not a measured meal response. All available carbohydrate is included. No biological uncertainty interval is known. The photograph illustrates serving; unlisted side dishes are excluded from the nutrition and GL estimates. All listed edible ingredients, sauce and fat are consumed. Handle cooking water as instructed; no unmeasured cooking or leaching losses are deducted.

Cream is 38% fat; blue cheese uses a generic AFCD composition rather than a verified branded label.