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My foods

Coley88
Coley88 Posts: 114 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Is there any way to create your own barcode scan option when adding foods under the "my foods"? I would like to be able to scan something and have it link to my entry.

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  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Not really. You'd have to get a manufacturer code from the standards body in your country than handles retail barcodes. That's an expensive thing to do.

    In the US that's http://www.gs1us.org/.

  • Coley88
    Coley88 Posts: 114 Member
    That's a bummer. I've noticed that most of the entries brought up by barcode scan are inaccurate.
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Coley88 wrote: »
    That's a bummer. I've noticed that most of the entries brought up by barcode scan are inaccurate.

    True. I often have to double check when using scans. On my app, there is a option when scanning to search for a different match. I think MFP is supposed to use that info to determine if the mapping is wrong and flag it for changing, but I don't think works very well.
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