So much has been said about Proteins, Fat & Calories in recent years, that the single biggest challenge faced when trying to answer the question is how to “separate the wheat from the chaff.” Protein and fats are what our body uses and they all have calorie counts. Too many and we get fat, too few and we starve. In this article, we look at the truth about nutritional information in recipes on the Epicurious website.
The dataset is available with over 20k recipes. In the dataset calories, protein, fat and sodium have almost same missing values. Let us explore these:
Looking at some of the NaN columns such as Scotch Cooler, Fish Brine and others, it looks like all have the same rows. so we will drop these rows.
Also, we will explore where the ratings is zero.
title 1296
rating 1296
calories 1296
protein 1296
fat 1296
sodium 1296