Nutritional Facts: Best Baking Powder Biscuits

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  2 cups (250g)
flour
4 teaspoons (18g)
baking powder
1/2 teaspoon (3g)
salt
5 tablespoons (64g)
shortening
3/4 cup (183g)
milk
Total 1 serving
Alanine (g) 0.8 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.2 1 0
Alcohol (g) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0
Arginine (g) 1.0 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.2 1 0
Ash (g) 1.2 13.2 3.0 0.0 1.3 19 2
Aspartic acid (g) 1.1 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.5 2 0
Caffeine (mg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 n/a 0 0
Calcium (mg) 37.5 1,355.0 0.7 0.0 217.8 1,611 201
Calories 910.0 9.4 0.0 565.8 117.1 1,602 200
Calories (kj) 3,807.5 39.2 0.0 2,367.4 490.4 6,704 838
Carbohydrates (g) 190.8 4.4 0.0 0.0 8.5 204 25
Cholesterol (mg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 25.6 26 3
Copper (mg) 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0
Cystine (g) 0.5 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.1 1 0
Dietary Fiber (g) 6.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7 1
Folate (mcg) 457.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.2 467 58
Folate, DFE (mcg) 727.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.2 737 92
Folate, food (mcg) 72.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.2 82 10
Folic acid (mcg) 385.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 385 48
Glutamic acid (g) 8.7 n/a 0.0 0.0 1.3 10 1
Glycine (g) 0.9 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.1 1 0
Histidine (g) 0.6 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.2 1 0
Iron (mg) 11.6 2.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 14 2
Isoleucine (g) 0.9 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.4 1 0
Leucine (g) 1.8 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.6 2 0
Lysine (g) 0.6 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.5 1 0
Magnesium (mg) 55.0 7.2 0.0 0.0 23.8 86 11
Manganese (mg) 1.7 0.0 0.0 n/a 0.0 2 0
Methionine (g) 0.5 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.2 1 0
Monounsaturated Fat (g) 0.2 0.0 0.0 28.5 1.9 31 4
Niacin (mg) 14.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 15 2
Pantothenic acid (mg) 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 2 0
Phenylalanine (g) 1.3 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.3 2 0
Phosphorus (mg) 270.0 1,824.9 0.0 0.0 170.2 2,265 283
Phytosterols n/a n/a 0.0 128.0 0.0 128 16
Polyunsaturated Fat (g) 1.0 0.0 0.0 16.7 0.2 18 2
Potassium (mg) 267.5 0.9 0.2 0.0 276.3 545 68
Proline (g) 3.0 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.6 4 0
Protein (g) 25.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 32 4
Retinol (mcg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 56.7 57 7
Riboflavin (mg) 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 2 0
Saturated Fat (g) 0.4 0.0 0.0 16.0 4.2 21 3
Selenium (mcg) 84.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.7 88 11
Serine (g) 1.3 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.3 2 0
Sodium (mg) 5.0 1,452.3 1,162.7 0.0 89.7 2,710 339
Sugar (g) 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 n/a 1 0
Theobromine (mg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 n/a 0 0
Thiamin (mg) 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 2 0
Threonine (g) 0.7 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.3 1 0
Tocopherol, alpha (mg) 0.2 0.0 0.0 3.9 n/a 4 1
Tocopherol, beta (mg) 0.2 n/a n/a 0.3 n/a 0 0
Tocopherol, delta (mg) 0.1 n/a n/a 9.8 n/a 10 1
Tocopherol, gamma (mg) 1.0 n/a n/a 20.7 n/a 22 3
Total Fat (g) 2.5 0.0 0.0 64.0 6.7 73 9
Tryptophan (g) 0.3 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.1 0 0
Tyrosine (g) 0.8 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.3 1 0
Valine (g) 1.0 n/a 0.0 0.0 0.4 1 0
Vitamin A, IU (IU) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 252.5 253 32
Vitamin A, RAE (mcg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 60.4 60 8
Vitamin B-12 (mcg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.7 1 0
Vitamin B-6 (mg) 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0 0
Vitamin C (mg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.7 3 0
Vitamin D (IU) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 n/a 0 0
Water (g) 29.8 0.7 0.0 0.0 160.5 191 24
Zinc (mg) 1.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.7 2 0

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