Bar code discrepancies!!!

BlackT74
BlackT74 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
While entering my cereal I scanned the bar code and noticed my cereal had “lots of vit C” looked at nutr. info to see 0%. Always double
check!! Don’t take everything at face value!

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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    Entries are mostly user entered and there are many errors and missing info - you can edit incorrect entries on the website
  • AndyWR72
    AndyWR72 Posts: 35 Member
    I scanned a pack of salad yesterday, according to the app it was Thai Noodles.
  • DoubleUbea
    DoubleUbea Posts: 1,115 Member
    edited August 2018
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  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    I've never scanned but if I did I would always verify the entry against the package.
  • auzziecawth
    auzziecawth Posts: 244 Member
    AndyWR72 wrote: »
    I scanned a pack of salad yesterday, according to the app it was Thai Noodles.

    Hahahahahahahaha. That’s my kinda salad 😂
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,672 Member
    Some people think scanning barcodes is more accurate than hand entering foods on MFP, because (they think) technology is magic. It isn't. No matter how we log our food here, it's a good exercise to double-check the entries we use until our "Recent" and "Frequent" foods are populated with reliable entries.

    The database is crowd-sourced. The plus of that is there are entries for many more foods than a central staff could reasonably input. The minus is that a bunch of entries are inaccurate. They're the same entries whether you pull them up by bar code, or by hands-on-keyboard.
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