editing items that i have scanned

paul_phish

Its great that we can scan bar codes and add them to a lists however some products do not list their potassium amounts. It is easy to find out or estimate the amount but I can't find away to edit the stored product either on my app or from the website. Please advise how I can do this as I do need to know my potassium intake for medical reasons. Thanks P

cod1965

I have the same problem. What I've been doing is creating a food called Potassium and setting the serving at 100g. You can then quite easily Google "potassium in...." and it usually returns a figure per 100g. I then add that value to the potassium section in the food I'm creating and adjust the number of servings as appropriate. e.g. Potassium in a 100g pear is roughly 75g, if I can I weigh the pear (often 175g) and make the number of servings 1.75. This gives the correct potassium value as 131.2g. I then add that to the diary, select and copy it as a meal/food named 'Pottasium in a Pear' . Once that is done and you've added both to your diary you can edit and select them both and save them as a meal to add as one.

paul_phish

that's a good idea.. So create new listing for an existing food with all blank except for Potassium. When entering a food item select the listing in the normal way then add the potassium only version. Use the meal function to package the two items together! Thanks!