Vitamin D

jcrfts
jcrfts Posts: 5 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Dear MFP.. please can you add Vitamin D and the B’s to the tracking of nutrition especially for premium members....

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  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
    At the bottom of the list of forums there's a feedback thread where you could post your suggestion.
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    Have you tried logging on nutritiondata.com?
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Only Vitamin A and C were formerly required on food labels, so there was no place from which to pull info about B and D. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/interactivenutritionfactslabel/factsheets/Vitamins_and_Minerals.pdf

    With the new label, A & C are being dropped and D and potassium are being added. https://www.fda.gov/files/food/published/The-New-and-Improved-Nutrition-Facts-Label-–-Key-Changes.pdf

    However, as this is currently being phased in it will take a while for this to reverberate through the MFP database. Plus, a lot of that is crowd sourced, and many people only bother to enter the values they are concerned about. Furthermore, there is no difference in the database for Premium vs Free.

    If you are indoors most of the time, you can assume you are likely deficient in D and supplement, but could always get blood work to verify this.

    Here are some foods high in D:

    https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/9-foods-high-in-vitamin-d
  • sarabushby
    sarabushby Posts: 784 Member
    I was concerned about my VitD levels as a potential cause of shin splints so I got an ‘at home’ blood test from the service Thriva. They are so fast, literally 2 days after taking the test and posting it off I get my results back. They’ve a tonne of discount codes if you’re interested though I am not sure if they operate outside the UK I’m afraid.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Only Vitamin A and C were formerly required on food labels, so there was no place from which to pull info about B and D. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/interactivenutritionfactslabel/factsheets/Vitamins_and_Minerals.pdf

    With the new label, A & C are being dropped and D and potassium are being added. https://www.fda.gov/files/food/published/The-New-and-Improved-Nutrition-Facts-Label-–-Key-Changes.pdf

    However, as this is currently being phased in it will take a while for this to reverberate through the MFP database. Plus, a lot of that is crowd sourced, and many people only bother to enter the values they are concerned about. Furthermore, there is no difference in the database for Premium vs Free.

    If you are indoors most of the time, you can assume you are likely deficient in D and supplement, but could always get blood work to verify this.

    Here are some foods high in D:

    https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/9-foods-high-in-vitamin-d

    The addition of D and potassium on U.S. food labels will not "reverberate through the MFP database" unless MFP revises the database software to create fields within food records for recording info on D and potassium. And for the info in the food records to be of real use in tracking, it would have to revise the food diary software so that it also has fields for D and potassium, and make a similar revision in the data report and data export features. And do the food diary changes X 3 for the web, iOS app, and Android app. I'm probably missing other stuff that would have to be changed, all before users could start adding the info from the food labels to the database and tracking it in their diaries. Software changes don't seem to happen very quickly at MFP.

    Yes, all that coding would need to be done, but I doubt it would start until the FDA phase-in is complete.
  • rdaines
    rdaines Posts: 1 Member
    This is essential for a nutrition app

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