Delete foods from "My Foods"

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clg1241
clg1241 Posts: 41 Member
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I have tried to delete foods from My Foods without much success. When I click on the food I want to delete, then click on the edit button I do not get an option to delete. I have upgraded to Premium Service do I have to the link in favorites list?

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  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    If the food item in your My Foods list has been shared with the public Food Database, you can not delete it from your list. You are the temporary owner of that publicly shared item. If another user edits that shared food item, the temporary ownership will transfer to the other user, and that item will disappear from your My Foods list.

    If the food item is not shared with the public Food Database, you can delete it.

    ​Please see this article, and search for other helpful articles, on the MFP Help/FAQ pages...

    https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1027117-how-do-i-edit-or-delete-a-food-i-created-in-"my-foods-"
  • clg1241
    clg1241 Posts: 41 Member
    Thanks for the explanation. So my foods are not totally my foods, I had to change my eating requirements and old stuff just sits there and I have to scroll through old foods no longer eaten. Not being able to delete makes this part of the site useless.
  • JMTaucher
    JMTaucher Posts: 17 Member
    clg1241 wrote: »
    Thanks for the explanation. So my foods are not totally my foods, I had to change my eating requirements and old stuff just sits there and I have to scroll through old foods no longer eaten. Not being able to delete makes this part of the site useless.

    Agreed. It makes for an extremely frustrating experience as old foods litter the space. If MFP was engineered properly is would not be a heavy lift to decouple someone from a food entry in order to remove it from their list.
  • mfpgloss789
    mfpgloss789 Posts: 3 Member

    S#!tty app developers develop s#!tty apps.

    Maybe the "My Foods" list should be different from the "Public Foods I Have Edited" list.

    There you go MFP Devs, you can have that little pearl of wisdom for free. Now run along and code an update already.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,122 Member

    Generally, the MFP staff don't read every post in the Community. The Community at large is for mutual help amongst users. High odds you're saying this only to other app users who have no more influence over the app than you have yourself.

    If you want to suggest changes/improvements, post that here:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/feature-suggestions-and-ideas

    The staff read that area and often respond.

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