Deleting Foods from "recent" list?

Uphillbattle42
Uphillbattle42 Posts: 4 Member
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Is there a way to delete foods that are on your "recent" list? Sometimes I'll eat something once and then never again and it's annoying that I can't delete it off that list.

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  • isuckatmath
    isuckatmath Posts: 11 Member
    I know how on the iphone app. Swipe the food from right to left and you'll see the delete. Tap it. Don't know how to on the forum itself. Maybe somebody else can answer?
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    The Recent list is just a plain, old database query that is regenerated each time the Food Diary is searched and displays up to the last 100 items you, yourself, added to your Food Diary, either by individual Meal, or by All Meals, depending on your display option. Those food items will eventually drop off of the Recent list display after you log more items. The Recent list is not stored anywhere (it is regenerated every time you search your Food Diary or refresh the page); that is why in the current design you can not delete anything from it. On the mobile apps, the Recent list can pull and display more items from your Diary than what is displayed on the Web version.

    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.

    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. You can go back to individual days in your Food Diary and delete the food items one by one on the Web version or by multi-delete on the mobile apps. 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, and search for other helpful 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-
  • itsbasschick
    itsbasschick Posts: 1,584 Member
    my recent list is like the random list. it shows things i haven't eaten in a year or only ate once three months ago but doesn't show some foods i've eaten repeatedly in the last week or month. frustrating.
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    itsbasschick wrote: »
    my recent list is like the random list. it shows things i haven't eaten in a year or only ate once three months ago but doesn't show some foods i've eaten repeatedly in the last week or month. frustrating.

    Have you toggled the Settings from a specific Meal (such as Breakfast) to All Meals?

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