Clearing the food history

marivsanchez2402

does anyone know how to clear the food history that stays in our diary? I have to many on there that I don't use anymore and I want to delete them.

CyberTone

I assume you are asking about the Recent list and not your actual Food Diary, because you can go back to individual days in your Food Diary and delete the food items one by one.

​The Recent list just displays up to the last 100 items you, yourself, added to your Food Diary. Those food items will eventually drop off of the Recent list display after you log more items. You can not delete them from the Recent list.

The Frequent list displays up to 25 items from your Food Diary based on an algorithm that the user can not change, but a user can in effect hide particular food items from displaying in the Frequent list.

If you want, you can change your default display to the Frequent list, from which you can hide previous food items that you added to your Food Diary and do not want to see displayed on a list of foods. On the Web version, navigate to FOOD > Settings and change Default Add Food View to Frequent. On the mobile apps, navigate to Settings > Diary Settings and set Default Search Tabs to Frequent. Currently, one can only remove food items from the Frequent list using the Web version or iOS mobile app, not the Android app.

The only way to have the Recent list not display those items that you added to your Food Diary is for you to go back to your Food Diary and delete all instances of those unwanted items from every day that you logged them. However, if you delete those unwanted entries from your Food Diary, be aware that your macros will not be correct for those previous days and any Reports, if you use that, will not be correct.

Please see these articles on the MFP Help pages...
myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/374439-how-do-i-delete-an-entry-from-my-food-diary-
myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/152746-can-i-remove-a-food-from-my-%22most-used%22-or-%22frequent%22-list-what-if-i-change-my-mind-

kengrubbs

my food search quit working, i fouond lots of people complainiing of the same thing but NO solutioin. I find the chat area unorganized.

Gweber1989

yeah, like we paid money for this. I have multiple doubles because Zi didn't know you could organize your searches per meal

AnnPT77

Um, this post started back in 2015 when the software features worked differently, with the most recent post before today being back in 2022.

Now in 2025, it's possible to delete items from recent foods or frequent foods in either the web browser version of the software, or the phone/tablet app. I can't be sure since I have premium, but I think this feature is also available in free MFP.

nossmf

It is. At least using the web browser. (Haven't tried with the app.)