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I need to adjust rows of values based on a percentage against fixed values on my recipe calculator.

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Creating a recipe calculator that adjusts ingredient weights based on percentage targets can transform your culinary creations. You've made progress with AI, but fine-tuning the formulas is key. Your setup includes fixed weights for certain ingredients while allowing flexibility for others to meet specified nutritional percentages. By entering your desired percentages at the bottom of the table, you can dynamically update the weights of those adjustable ingredients, ensuring your recipe meets your nutritional goals.

I’ve tried the Ai route and it’s helped, but I can’t quite nail this. I’m struggling with the formulas to execute. Excuse poor terminology, this is not my field of expertise.

I’m writing a recipe calculator with the following columns- ingredients (C), grams (D), percentage of ingredient of total recipe (E), sugar % (F), fat % (G), protein % (H), carbs % (I), sodium % (J) and calories (K).

The ingredients and nutritional % relating to each ingredient is populated via a dropdown list pulled from a table on another worksheet in the same work book.

My goal is to have 20 rows of ingredients.
5 rows (rows 3-7) will have fixed weight (grams) values that don’t change as I make adjustments.
The remaining 15 rows (rows 8-22), I would like to adjust the grams required in the 15 rows to achieve the % result I need of the nutritional value I determine.

The bottom of the table will have a total % of each nutritional value that I want to be able to adjust. M

For example-
1000g ice cream recipe requires 22% sugar

Row 3 - 476g Cream = 2.6% sugar
Row 4 - 204g Milk = 4.8% sugar
Row 5 - 3g Vanilla Bean = 0% sugar
Row 6 - 149g Egg Yolk = 0.2% sugar

Row 8 - 125g Caster Sugar = 100% sugar
Row 9 - 43g Glucose = 80% sugar

This recipe = 31.27% sugar.

I’d like to enter the % value at the bottom of the table, to change the weight of ingredients in rows 8-22.

To further explain, in this example, i want the added sugar (caster sugar & glucose) to update their weights to calculate the final percentage as required.

I would also like to do this with fat as well in the future.

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