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How accurate is the food app?

tmanross
tmanross Posts: 35 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
How accurate is the food app? Like logging your food? I used to do weight watchers.

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  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    On the whole, I find it to be very accurate. Are there faulty entries? For sure. But the vast majority are correct, as long as I use the slightest bit of common sense which picking which item to log (i.e. not the "net carbs" entry if I care about all carbs).
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    The app or the database? Two very different things!
    The database has loads of inaccurate entries so choose carefully.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    edited August 2018
    pretty accurate. If there are multiple entries for something with differing calorie counts (a more "raw" item, like a vegetable or meat or something) I will sometimes google it. With packaged foods I check the nutrition label to make sure it matches what's in the mfp database. I know a few months ago I took some survey put on by MFP and they said they were going to work on cleaning up the food database, but I'm not sure if that's still happening
  • tmanross
    tmanross Posts: 35 Member
    Thank You!!
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