Determining sufficient nutrition with minimal technology

We're in a military space cruiser, designed for in-system patrolling. We're selected to test out a prototype FTL drive. The initial tests are supposed to be short-ranged in-system hops.

A disaster happens and we're forced to make an unprepared long-distance jump to a distant system. Thankfully, we know that the system has a world that should be habitable, and when we arrive in the system our scans show this is true.

However, further Bad Things happen, and we have to abandon the ship. This isn't rushed, but we can't take, say, the primary computer core or the machine shop. We can bring along some solar panels for recharging of the portable devices, but that's about it.

How do we go about determining if something is not only edible/non-poisonous, but that we are getting the nutrition we need?

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