My Foods in Shared Data Base

AMRROL

I have quite a few food items that I have shared to the data base. I spent a lot of time transferring the information from the actual labels. Question, when someone changes or edits my item in the shared data base, does that also change the values that I have in my personal "My Foods" list in my MFP account? In other words, will my original value remain in my personal list, or the edited value that some other member edited.

CyberTone

The nutrition information you have logged into your Food Diary will not change. So the Calories and nutrient information you logged from a My Foods item and from the public Food Database at the time the food item was logged will never change in your Food Diary.

However, any shared food items (database records) that you have either created or have edited that are currently in your My Foods list (database table) can be edited by another user. If another user edits that food item, the ownership of that food item transfers to the other user and it now displays in the other user's My Foods List. At the same time, that food item will disappear from your My Foods list.

In order to recover that food item, you would have to search the Food Database, locate the food item, then edit it so that it once again resides in your My Foods list. You could edit it to change it back to what you want. The only problem with this is that the other user may have changed the name of the food item and you might never find it again through a text search.

Basically, if you do not want to get into an ownership editing war with another user, it is recommended not to share your personally created My Foods food items with the public Food Database.