Fibre quantity wrong on MFP

leandra23xx

Hey everyone. I scan all my meals on MFP and regularly check the macros to identify areas I need to improve on. Fibre seems to the issue at the moment so I have started eating porridge. However, the porridge I scanned this morning - appears as "0" in the description on MFP and I can't seem to be able to go in and edit it, even tho it should be 2.5g. I'm not a paid member, does that mean I can't go in and over-ride it? Any help appreciated...

Alatariel75

You can't update entries with a green tick - does it have one? Unfortunately even green tick items aren't guaranteed to be correct.

sijomial

As your diary is private only you know what entry your scanning brought up.
Being a premium number doesn't affect the entry or ability to edit it.

It could well be a user generated entry and the person didn't bother to input all the available info.
Sadly there's 000's of really poor database entries and MyFitnessPal decline to address the issue despite sensible suggestions on how to tackle it being made to them for years.....

Are there other entries you can search for by brand name? That will put it in your most recent used items for the future.


Try a slurp of evaporated milk in your porridge - delicious!!

AMC110

On the database search results page at the bottom it says 'Can't find what you're looking for? Add a food to the database' with a link to where you can create your own entry.

CattOfTheGarage

That's really annoying, I don't have a solution, just sympathy - unfortunately there are a lot of bad entries in there.

hesn92

A lot of people don’t enter every nutrient when entering foods into the database. If you want to see the fiber there you can always add your own entry.

Spliner1969

Enter your own food in the database and correct the macros, then just choose it instead of scanning the bar code.

leandra23xx

Thanks everyone, appreciate that.