Vit C % query for recipe ingredients

Strudders67

Hi all, I added a cauliflower recipe a couple of days ago but it's showing a weird value for Vit C %. It was made up of a mix of grated cauli, grated courgette, diced onions (around 70g of each), a diced tomato, a teaspoon each of ground cumin, chopped garlic & fresh ginger plus a teaspoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice. (I can't remember the exact weights / measurements now, but 70g is roughly right and I think it's immaterial). The mix was used to stuff two bell peppers, one of which I had with my dinner last night and the other for lunch today.

BUT, looking at my nutrition values on my phone earlier, for today, I happened to notice that my Vit C figure was high. Very high. For a serving that has 68 calories, 13 carbs, 3 fat, 3 protein and 6 of whatever else I'm tracking, MFP claims it's got 2,692% of Vit C in it: -

Cauliflower bake for peppers, 1 serving(s) 68 13 3 3 6 2,692

This doesn't include the pepper itself, it's just the mix that I spooned into it.

On the recipe page, the only nutrition I can see is for the basics, not any vitamins. I've tried looking at the database but can't identify any anomalies there and I've tried adding the ingredients individually to my 'Dinner' but nothing out of the ordinary comes up. Most of the ingredients show zero for Vit C. Is there any way of finding out what is causing this spike?

cerise_noir

Perhaps one of the ingredients has the wrong nutrition information or even may be the wrong amount of a certain ingredient. The recipe builder is a little..... special. I'd go into the recipe section and check each ingredient (you can click on the ingredients after clicking on 'edit recipe' to check out the nutrition information).

I once added garlic powder to the recipe builder which showed 2000 calories for 1/2 tsp. :laugh: There are so many BS entries in the database.

Strudders67

Thanks but as I said, even when I go back, it only shows basic info - calories, carbs, fat, protein, sugars & sodium. It doesn't show (me) vitamins. I agree with the BS entries though. I'd already amended the cumin - 1 tsp was giving me a figure of over 400 calories. It's now corrected to 8 calories; 400+ is accurate for 100g of the stuff and 1 tsp of powder definitely doesn't weigh that much! I just can't see the vitamin data for recipe ingredients and, with so many similar entries, it's almost impossible to be 100% certain which database entry my recipe ingredients have matched against. Certainly all the ones that I selected individually looked OK for vitamin C.

lynn_glenmont

If you're using the website, and you edit the recipe, and tap on an individual ingredient, there should be a pop-up that shows info for all the nutrients that MFP tracks, including vitamin C.

Strudders67

Maybe I just can't see it on my screen.The pop-up box looks as though there's more to it, but it's off the bottom of my screen and I can't move the box around / up to see the rest. Oh well, if I ever make that particular mix again, I may delete all the ingredients from my Recipes tab and start again to see if I pick something different (and more accurate) from the database.

CyberTone

Strudders67 wrote: »

Maybe I just can't see it on my screen.The pop-up box looks as though there's more to it, but it's off the bottom of my screen and I can't move the box around / up to see the rest. Oh well, if I ever make that particular mix again, I may delete all the ingredients from my Recipes tab and start again to see if I pick something different (and more accurate) from the database.

Yes, the pop-up window you describe has no scroll bar in Chrome, and probably most other browsers (that is a failing of the MFP software developers to code for that).

Find out how to zoom out (in other words change viewing size from 100% to 75% or so) either before you open the pop-up window or after. I do that on Chrome from the upper right icon that looks like 3 vertical dots. Then I can see the entire pop-up window.