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Garlic bread

Name: Garlic bread
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1 loaf French bread, split lengthwise; 7 tbsp butter, softened; 4 cloves garlic, grated; 2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/3 cup grated parmesan

A split loaf soaked in garlic butter and toasted — the side that gets eaten before anything else on the table. Made properly, with fresh garlic, not powder.

Time: 25 min (10 prep + 15 cook)
Servings: 8
Per serving: 244 kcal
Protein: 7 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

1 loaf French bread, split lengthwise400 g
7 tbsp butter, softened100 g
4 cloves garlic, grated15 g
2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped8 g
1/4 tsp salt2 g
1/3 cup grated parmesan (optional)30 g

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Steps

Mash the butter with the garlic, parsley and salt.
Spread it to the very edges of both halves — the edges toast first and unbuttered edges burn dry.
Bake cut-side up at 200°C for 12 minutes; parmesan in the last 3 if using. For soft garlic bread, wrap the closed loaf in foil instead.
Cut into fat slices with a serrated knife and serve hot.

Why this score

engineered against fullness

Fat and refined carbohydrate converging the way engineered food does; dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

11% of kcal

21% water

5 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

29%

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1956 kcal goes into the pot, 555 g of ingredients comes out as ~480 g of food → 407 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 407
Protein: (11%); 11 g
Fat: (45%); 21 g
Carbohydrates: (44%); 45 g
of which sugar: 4 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sodium: 908 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.