Calories don't match nutritional chart

aronsberg
aronsberg Posts: 2
in Food and Nutrition
someone please tell me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression that all calories are either made up of fat, protein, or carb. Yesterday I went over by 800 calories but was one gram over on fat, and significantly short on protein and carbs. Can anyone explain?

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  • abatonfan
    abatonfan Posts: 1,120 Member
    edited April 2015
    Did you have any alcohol? Alcohol is also a macro (7kcal/gram), though MFP doesn't track it.

    Some of the MFP entries may also be really off. It's user-inputted, so someone who might only be focused on their calories instead of calories and macros might not put all the nutrition information in for a food.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    edited April 2015
    Often entries are wrong.... Did you double check the entries you use? Fibre may not have been included in the carb macros, but would be a part of the calories
  • allyphoe
    allyphoe Posts: 618 Member
    Something you logged didn't have macros added to it (or had an error). Or you had alcohol.

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