Delete foods from "My Foods"

clg1241

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?

CyberTone

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

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

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.