The first-ever Howdygram Brainstorm Award.

As a diabetic I spend a lot of time researching nutritional information for all the food I buy, especially products I’m ordering online for the first time, to find out about the carbohydrates and fiber. Today I was pondering the nutritional data for ordinary cornstarch (I use it to thicken things) but for some dumb reason the package label tells you it’s 120 grams of carbs PER CUP. This is a real problem because who the hell uses a whole cup of cornstarch? Normal people measure it by the tablespoon unless you’re cooking for the troops at Fort Bragg. Fortunately, I just discovered NutrientFacts.com and my life is changed forever. You can look up any food on the planet — everything from marshmallows to canned sardines — and recalculate the nutritional information by whatever measurement you want, such as teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, pints, grams, handfuls, pounds, ounces, you name it, as demonstrated by the illustration below regarding the aforementioned cornstarch. You don’t even have to know any math. (Thank God.)

This is BRILLIANT, and I am therefore thrilled to announce that NutrientFacts.com wins our first-ever Howdygram Brainstorm Award. Yee-haw and holy crap!

Thank you for reading this.