food scale measuring? New to this! part 2!

Jonestiarra2013

OK maybe I'm just not getting it..but I just brought a food scale and it measures great but entering it in MFP is an issue for example I had some grapes this morning, one serving size is 151grams I had 162 MPF will only let me enter the number of servings not the SERVING size...those all all preset metrics I did not eat 162 servings of grapes I had one serving of 162grams...please help!

kristydi

Are you using the app or the website?

I mostly use the app. If you click on the serving size you get a drop down menu with different serving sizes. If you find an entry with a serving size of 100g there's usually a 1g option. Even the odd ones (like 151g) frequently have a 1g option. If not you can choose a different entry.

CyberTone

You need to change the quantity of servings you log from 1 to 1.07. Here is why.

The concept is that if you ate one serving of 151g, you would log the quantity as 1.0 serving of 151g serving size. If you ate two servings of 151g (i.e. twice as much, or 151g x 2 = 302g), you would log the quantity as 2.0 servings of 151g serving size.

You weighed out 162g, which is between 1 and 2 servings. Since 162g is slightly more than 1 serving, but a lot less than 2 servings, you would log slightly more than 1 serving using a decimal amount greater than 1.0 but less than 2.0.

To determine exactly how much, take the amount of food you weighed out (162g) and divide by the amount of 1 serving size (151g); or 162g / 151g = 1.07 (approximately).

So, log 1.07 "quantity" of a "151g serving size."