Nutritional Facts: Favorite Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits

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  2 cups (250g)
self-rising flour
1 1/3 cups (327g)
buttermilk
1/4 teaspoon (1g)
baking powder
1/4 cup (51g)
Crisco shortening
1 pinch (0g)
baking powder
Total 1 serving
Alanine (g) 0.8 0.4 n/a 0.0 n/a 1 0
Alcohol (g) 0.0 0.0 0.0 n/a 0.0 0 0
Arginine (g) 1.0 0.4 n/a 0.0 n/a 1 0
Ash (g) 10.8 2.9 0.8 0.0 0.1 15 0
Aspartic acid (g) 1.0 0.9 n/a 0.0 n/a 2 0
Caffeine (mg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 n/a 0.0 0 0
Calcium (mg) 845.0 378.8 84.7 0.0 10.6 1,319 0
Calories 885.0 130.6 0.6 453.1 0.1 1,469 0
Calories (kj) 3,702.5 551.9 2.4 1,895.7 0.3 6,153 0
Carbohydrates (g) 185.6 15.6 0.3 0.0 0.0 202 0
Cholesterol (mg) 0.0 13.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 13 0
Copper (mg) 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0
Cystine (g) 0.5 0.1 n/a 0.0 n/a 1 0
Dietary Fiber (g) 6.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7 0
Folate (mcg) 490.0 16.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 506 0
Folate, DFE (mcg) 767.5 16.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 784 0
Folate, food (mcg) 95.0 16.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 111 0
Folic acid (mcg) 395.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 395 0
Glutamic acid (g) 8.3 2.1 n/a 0.0 n/a 10 0
Glycine (g) 0.9 0.2 n/a 0.0 n/a 1 0
Histidine (g) 0.6 0.3 n/a 0.0 n/a 1 0
Iron (mg) 11.7 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 12 0
Isoleucine (g) 0.9 0.7 n/a 0.0 n/a 2 0
Leucine (g) 1.7 1.1 n/a 0.0 n/a 3 0
Lysine (g) 0.5 0.9 n/a 0.0 n/a 1 0
Magnesium (mg) 47.5 35.9 0.4 0.0 0.1 84 0
Manganese (mg) 2.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3 0
Methionine (g) 0.4 0.3 n/a 0.0 n/a 1 0
Monounsaturated Fat (g) 0.2 0.8 0.0 21.8 0.0 23 0
Niacin (mg) 14.6 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 15 0
Pantothenic acid (mg) 1.1 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 2 0
Phenylalanine (g) 1.2 0.6 n/a 0.0 n/a 2 0
Phosphorus (mg) 1,487.5 290.7 114.1 0.0 14.3 1,906 0
Phytosterols n/a n/a n/a 75.9 n/a 76 0
Polyunsaturated Fat (g) 1.0 0.1 0.0 13.7 0.0 15 0
Potassium (mg) 310.0 493.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 803 0
Proline (g) 2.9 1.1 n/a 0.0 n/a 4 0
Protein (g) 24.7 10.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 36 0
Retinol (mcg) 0.0 42.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 42 0
Riboflavin (mg) 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 2 0
Saturated Fat (g) 0.4 1.8 0.0 12.8 0.0 15 0
Selenium (mcg) 86.0 6.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 93 0
Serine (g) 1.2 0.6 n/a 0.0 n/a 2 0
Sodium (mg) 3,175.0 342.9 90.8 0.0 11.3 3,620 0
Sugar (g) 0.6 15.6 0.0 n/a 0.0 16 0
Theobromine (mg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 n/a 0.0 0 0
Thiamin (mg) 1.7 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 2 0
Threonine (g) 0.7 0.5 n/a 0.0 n/a 1 0
Tocopherol, alpha (mg) 0.1 0.2 0.0 n/a 0.0 0 0
Tocopherol, beta (mg) 0.1 0.1 n/a n/a n/a 0 0
Tocopherol, delta (mg) 0.0 0.1 n/a n/a n/a 0 0
Tocopherol, gamma (mg) 0.8 0.1 n/a n/a n/a 1 0
Total Fat (g) 2.4 2.9 0.0 51.3 0.0 57 0
Tryptophan (g) 0.3 0.1 n/a 0.0 n/a 0 0
Tyrosine (g) 0.7 0.5 n/a 0.0 n/a 1 0
Valine (g) 1.0 0.8 n/a 0.0 n/a 2 0
Vitamin A, IU (IU) 0.0 153.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 153 0
Vitamin A, RAE (mcg) 0.0 45.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 46 0
Vitamin B-12 (mcg) 0.0 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 1 0
Vitamin B-6 (mg) 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0
Vitamin C (mg) 0.0 3.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 3 0
Vitamin D (IU) 0.0 3.3 0.0 n/a 0.0 3 0
Water (g) 26.5 294.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 321 0
Zinc (mg) 1.6 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 3 0

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