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Why do people lie about the calories?
denee05
Posts: 15 Member
On my blue bunny frozen yogurt it says 140 calories for half a cup. On here it says 100 calories. I find errors like this often. Why does this happen?
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Because people disappoint
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It may have been 100 calories previously, or in another area of the country. Or, yeah, people are disappointing and don't care what they put in the database.3
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Sadly there are many, many errors in the database. Always double and triple check the nutritional info before you log it in your daily food diary.2
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Maybe each 1/2 cup has different g or ml quantities. Go by the digital measurement.
Cheers, h.3 -
It could also be a recipe change. You can always correct it. If you do, please do us a favor and use grams as a serving size.
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PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »It could also be a recipe change. You can always correct it. If you do, please do us a favor and use grams as a serving size.
This, for the love of god. So tired of sifting through volumetric only entries.14 -
On the off chance I can't get my free range eggs, once on a while I get eggs from "The Happy Egg Company". Someone on here (the default entry, I might add) listed a serving (one egg) as having 25g of FIBER. Hello, what?!! Check, & check again.1
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I would guess the lower Calorie one was a fat free version and the person who entered it did not put fat free in the name. There are other entries for that brand; check the grams of fat for each one, and see if they are different.1
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Another error is people (rightly) will enter the calories for 100g but the serving is actually 125g and so you have to enter 1.25 as your consumed amount. I expect that also trips people up.
I am still irrationally bugged by so much cups talk on the forum and in the database entries.9 -
VintageFeline wrote: »Another error is people (rightly) will enter the calories for 100g but the serving is actually 125g and so you have to enter 1.25 as your consumed amount. I expect that also trips people up.
I am still irrationally bugged by so much cups talk on the forum and in the database entries.
The ice cream in Newfoundland/Labrador only has 1/2 cup and 125 mL measurements listed. I've yet to find a grams weight for ice cream that is consistent across all brands and flavours.
OT: just correct the entry with the current info.1 -
VintageFeline wrote: »Another error is people (rightly) will enter the calories for 100g but the serving is actually 125g and so you have to enter 1.25 as your consumed amount. I expect that also trips people up.
I am still irrationally bugged by so much cups talk on the forum and in the database entries.
The ice cream in Newfoundland/Labrador only has 1/2 cup and 125 mL measurements listed. I've yet to find a grams weight for ice cream that is consistent across all brands and flavours.
OT: just correct the entry with the current info.
Oh they do that here too mostly but just with mls because cups aren't used ever. I don't understand, am I supposed to melt the ice cream in order to get a correct serving (sarcastic).3 -
Can we also hunt down and ban people who put in fluid measurements for solid foods? I was trying to put in plain-old tomato slices (for my burger) and found "diced tomatoes" measured in cups and fluid ounces (fl oz). TOMATOES ARE NOT A FLUID! THEY ARE SOLID! Fluid ounces is NOT the same as weight ounces. GAH!11
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VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »Another error is people (rightly) will enter the calories for 100g but the serving is actually 125g and so you have to enter 1.25 as your consumed amount. I expect that also trips people up.
I am still irrationally bugged by so much cups talk on the forum and in the database entries.
The ice cream in Newfoundland/Labrador only has 1/2 cup and 125 mL measurements listed. I've yet to find a grams weight for ice cream that is consistent across all brands and flavours.
OT: just correct the entry with the current info.
Oh they do that here too mostly but just with mls because cups aren't used ever. I don't understand, am I supposed to melt the ice cream in order to get a correct serving (sarcastic).
I think the best method of weighing said ice cream is to:
Get on the scale, notice your weight.
Eat the ice cream
Get back on the scale....
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Can we also hunt down and ban people who put in fluid measurements for solid foods? I was trying to put in plain-old tomato slices (for my burger) and found "diced tomatoes" measured in cups and fluid ounces (fl oz). TOMATOES ARE NOT A FLUID! THEY ARE SOLID! Fluid ounces is NOT the same as weight ounces. GAH!
Some cans have the measurement of fl. oz because the diced tomatoes are in water. That might be where you're seeing that from.4 -
This is why I never use MFP. I prefer Cronometer.0
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VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »Another error is people (rightly) will enter the calories for 100g but the serving is actually 125g and so you have to enter 1.25 as your consumed amount. I expect that also trips people up.
I am still irrationally bugged by so much cups talk on the forum and in the database entries.
The ice cream in Newfoundland/Labrador only has 1/2 cup and 125 mL measurements listed. I've yet to find a grams weight for ice cream that is consistent across all brands and flavours.
OT: just correct the entry with the current info.
Oh they do that here too mostly but just with mls because cups aren't used ever. I don't understand, am I supposed to melt the ice cream in order to get a correct serving (sarcastic).
I bought a #8 food scoop just for ice cream.1 -
It may have been 100 calories previously, or in another area of the country. Or, yeah, people are disappointing and don't care what they put in the database.
All of these. Usually I find there is a whole list of whatever food I am looking for and one of them will usually match. Quite often the difference in prepared stuff comes from changes the maker made to their recipe over time. I had one brownie I used to enjoy that originally was right around 100 calories, but eventually changed to 140, so a very similar change in calories. The change was all due to a remake of the recipe making them "new and improved" which I didn't think described the increase of calories.
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VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »Another error is people (rightly) will enter the calories for 100g but the serving is actually 125g and so you have to enter 1.25 as your consumed amount. I expect that also trips people up.
I am still irrationally bugged by so much cups talk on the forum and in the database entries.
The ice cream in Newfoundland/Labrador only has 1/2 cup and 125 mL measurements listed. I've yet to find a grams weight for ice cream that is consistent across all brands and flavours.
OT: just correct the entry with the current info.
Oh they do that here too mostly but just with mls because cups aren't used ever. I don't understand, am I supposed to melt the ice cream in order to get a correct serving (sarcastic).
I bought a #8 food scoop just for ice cream.
A what now?0 -
yellingkimber wrote: »Can we also hunt down and ban people who put in fluid measurements for solid foods? I was trying to put in plain-old tomato slices (for my burger) and found "diced tomatoes" measured in cups and fluid ounces (fl oz). TOMATOES ARE NOT A FLUID! THEY ARE SOLID! Fluid ounces is NOT the same as weight ounces. GAH!
Some cans have the measurement of fl. oz because the diced tomatoes are in water. That might be where you're seeing that from.
I've seen that happen for foods that don't have any fluid - such as some of the white rice entries and one of the spinach entries.0 -
yellingkimber wrote: »Can we also hunt down and ban people who put in fluid measurements for solid foods? I was trying to put in plain-old tomato slices (for my burger) and found "diced tomatoes" measured in cups and fluid ounces (fl oz). TOMATOES ARE NOT A FLUID! THEY ARE SOLID! Fluid ounces is NOT the same as weight ounces. GAH!
Some cans have the measurement of fl. oz because the diced tomatoes are in water. That might be where you're seeing that from.
I've seen that happen for foods that don't have any fluid - such as some of the white rice entries and one of the spinach entries.
Some of the volume measurement serving size choices are the direct result of MFP's misguided and unfortunate decision about two years ago to introduce an "enhanced" feature to convert serving sizes automatically from cups to milliliters and fluid ounces when some food items are created (or verified), regardless whether the conversion passes the "common sense" test.
In the US, the serving size for many solid items are provided as a portion of a cup. The cup serving size is listed on the Nutrition Facts label, usually with the number of grams in parentheses associated with that volume measurement. When some food items are created or verified with the cup information instead of the gram information, the MFP conversion algorithms assume it is a volume measurement and the software algorithm automatically converts that to milliliters and fluid ounces, and then provides an additional choice for 1 milliliter and 1 fluid ounce.
MFP may have discontinued this, but quite a few of the entries that were created using this algorithm are still in the Food Database.3 -
People who create foods and when you click on it, there is no fat, carbs, or protein in it
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VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »Another error is people (rightly) will enter the calories for 100g but the serving is actually 125g and so you have to enter 1.25 as your consumed amount. I expect that also trips people up.
I am still irrationally bugged by so much cups talk on the forum and in the database entries.
The ice cream in Newfoundland/Labrador only has 1/2 cup and 125 mL measurements listed. I've yet to find a grams weight for ice cream that is consistent across all brands and flavours.
OT: just correct the entry with the current info.
Oh they do that here too mostly but just with mls because cups aren't used ever. I don't understand, am I supposed to melt the ice cream in order to get a correct serving (sarcastic).
I bought a #8 food scoop just for ice cream.
A what now?
A disher scoop AKA an ice cream scoop actually comes in over a dozen sizes. Each size has a corresponding number. A #8 scoop equals 4oz/.5cup/118ml.1 -
Wynterbourne wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »Another error is people (rightly) will enter the calories for 100g but the serving is actually 125g and so you have to enter 1.25 as your consumed amount. I expect that also trips people up.
I am still irrationally bugged by so much cups talk on the forum and in the database entries.
The ice cream in Newfoundland/Labrador only has 1/2 cup and 125 mL measurements listed. I've yet to find a grams weight for ice cream that is consistent across all brands and flavours.
OT: just correct the entry with the current info.
Oh they do that here too mostly but just with mls because cups aren't used ever. I don't understand, am I supposed to melt the ice cream in order to get a correct serving (sarcastic).
I bought a #8 food scoop just for ice cream.
A what now?
A disher scoop AKA an ice cream scoop actually comes in over a dozen sizes. Each size has a corresponding number. A #8 scoop equals 4oz/.5cup/118ml.
I just weight the ice cream in grams. Lots of serving sizes has cups as well as grams or fl oz in weight so it's just easier buying a kitchen scale so you're not guessing. As far as the database is concerned, I look until I find an entry that lets me put in weight vs. cups. Sometime you'll find entries that will always say "1/2 cup" even though you changed the weight. One example is my oatmeal I eat for breakfast.. I can put in a measurement of 1 kilo, but it will still say 1/2 cup even though the calories and nutrition change. LOL1 -
MaddMaestro wrote: »Wynterbourne wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »Another error is people (rightly) will enter the calories for 100g but the serving is actually 125g and so you have to enter 1.25 as your consumed amount. I expect that also trips people up.
I am still irrationally bugged by so much cups talk on the forum and in the database entries.
The ice cream in Newfoundland/Labrador only has 1/2 cup and 125 mL measurements listed. I've yet to find a grams weight for ice cream that is consistent across all brands and flavours.
OT: just correct the entry with the current info.
Oh they do that here too mostly but just with mls because cups aren't used ever. I don't understand, am I supposed to melt the ice cream in order to get a correct serving (sarcastic).
I bought a #8 food scoop just for ice cream.
A what now?
A disher scoop AKA an ice cream scoop actually comes in over a dozen sizes. Each size has a corresponding number. A #8 scoop equals 4oz/.5cup/118ml.
I just weight the ice cream in grams. Lots of serving sizes has cups as well as grams or fl oz in weight so it's just easier buying a kitchen scale so you're not guessing
Not sure why you quoted me. I was merely answering VintageFeline's question regarding food scoops.
However, in regards to your comment, if you scroll back some you'll see one example where the ice cream container has only 1/2 cup and 125 mL measurements listed. How do they weigh that one in grams?1 -
After reading this I realised that a lot of my measurements are rough conversions from what others have submitted. I will now scan all of my ingredients and add them to the database and put them into measurements that I use...which is grams 0
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After reading this I realised that a lot of my measurements are rough conversions from what others have submitted. I will now scan all of my ingredients and add them to the database and put them into measurements that I use...which is grams
I just edit the existing entries from cups, ounces, etc to grams.1 -
Wynterbourne wrote: »After reading this I realised that a lot of my measurements are rough conversions from what others have submitted. I will now scan all of my ingredients and add them to the database and put them into measurements that I use...which is grams
I just edit the existing entries from cups, ounces, etc to grams.
1. I choose the Australian items which are in grams.
Or ...
2. I change it to grams, as you have mentioned.
If it doesn't come in grams, I find one that does.0 -
MaddMaestro wrote: »Wynterbourne wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »Another error is people (rightly) will enter the calories for 100g but the serving is actually 125g and so you have to enter 1.25 as your consumed amount. I expect that also trips people up.
I am still irrationally bugged by so much cups talk on the forum and in the database entries.
The ice cream in Newfoundland/Labrador only has 1/2 cup and 125 mL measurements listed. I've yet to find a grams weight for ice cream that is consistent across all brands and flavours.
OT: just correct the entry with the current info.
Oh they do that here too mostly but just with mls because cups aren't used ever. I don't understand, am I supposed to melt the ice cream in order to get a correct serving (sarcastic).
I bought a #8 food scoop just for ice cream.
A what now?
A disher scoop AKA an ice cream scoop actually comes in over a dozen sizes. Each size has a corresponding number. A #8 scoop equals 4oz/.5cup/118ml.
I just weight the ice cream in grams. Lots of serving sizes has cups as well as grams or fl oz in weight so it's just easier buying a kitchen scale so you're not guessing. As far as the database is concerned, I look until I find an entry that lets me put in weight vs. cups. Sometime you'll find entries that will always say "1/2 cup" even though you changed the weight. One example is my oatmeal I eat for breakfast.. I can put in a measurement of 1 kilo, but it will still say 1/2 cup even though the calories and nutrition change. LOL
Not to beat this one but you'll see I use a food scale, cups aren't even a measure listed here in the UK. The issue is with the weirdness that is a lot of ice cream only listing the mls. So there is no grams serving listing. Weighing 100g isn't the equivalent of 100mls. So some messing about needs to be done. Though I don't eat much ice cream so it's not too big a deal for me personally.Wynterbourne wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »Another error is people (rightly) will enter the calories for 100g but the serving is actually 125g and so you have to enter 1.25 as your consumed amount. I expect that also trips people up.
I am still irrationally bugged by so much cups talk on the forum and in the database entries.
The ice cream in Newfoundland/Labrador only has 1/2 cup and 125 mL measurements listed. I've yet to find a grams weight for ice cream that is consistent across all brands and flavours.
OT: just correct the entry with the current info.
Oh they do that here too mostly but just with mls because cups aren't used ever. I don't understand, am I supposed to melt the ice cream in order to get a correct serving (sarcastic).
I bought a #8 food scoop just for ice cream.
A what now?
A disher scoop AKA an ice cream scoop actually comes in over a dozen sizes. Each size has a corresponding number. A #8 scoop equals 4oz/.5cup/118ml.
But isn't that as inaccurate as a cup? My scoop could be more generous than your scoop so the old cups/volume being inappropriate for solids stands?
And yes, I'm dwelling on this too much!0 -
I think what probably happened also is that they put the serving size but put about approximate how many calories they ate.0
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