None of you log sweet potatoes?

FitForL1fe

JaneiR36 wrote: »

show previous quotes

arachnofobia7 wrote: »

For this very reason I stopped logging on MFP, it takes way too long to find the correct item and the measurement units are ridiculous!!! How do you quantify ''cup'' or ''serving''? I found an external website that provides nutritional values measured either by grams or mililiters (not cups, teaspoons etc) and use it instead MFT. Very often all I use as guidance is packaging information to determine calorific value.

The official non asterisk entries should have multiple serving sizes: cups, tablespoons, grams, ounces, 100g, etc. They made a change where the official MFP entry showed up at the top of results but I'm not sure I thought I heard that got broke again. Either way, once I find an item, I seem to have it almost permanently for continuous use (from my Recents area), which on the iOS app I discovered appears to store a ton of items

yeah I refer to my Recent tab like 95% of the time

searching for something new and verifying its stats sucks

smh I don't understand how people can record so many *kitten* wrong entries into the database

ChrisM8971

bpetrosky wrote: »

show previous quotes

ChrisM8971 wrote: »

Scanning only takes you to member entries these days so there is no guarantee of accuracy unfortunately and the USDA entries seem to be member entries as well. Use the entry with no * because that is an MFP site entry and should be more accurate, otherwise look for the ones with the most confirmations

While that's true, it's getting harder and harder to find entries with no *.

Unfortunately that is true, it seems that a lot of the entries have had their names changed recently and when you enter Banana for instance the unstarred version doesnt seem to appear at all.

A synical part of me wonders if the search function works better on the paid for version of the site?