Weight of food

poshjocks
poshjocks Posts: 1 Member
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Hello...how can I change how the food is weighed ....? Its coming up cups
Thank you for any help...

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  • mbonacci12
    mbonacci12 Posts: 72 Member
    Some data base items can be changed with the drop downs under serving. Others were only entered with 1 serving type. You will have to either search for another entry or manually calculate to what you are looking for. Example: 1 ounce is 28.3495 grams. Keep in mind measuring and weighing will be different.
  • hedwardsb
    hedwardsb Posts: 201 Member
    Sometimes I add the weight to my search. For example, if I search “watermelon” and it just comes up with cups, I’ll search again with “watermelon usda grams.” I might have to try a couple of different ways to find what I want. If it comes up with ounces and a gram amount in parentheses, then I choose the drop down by the measurement to choose “1 gram.” While I sometimes use ounces, I generally prefer grams because the smaller unit of measurement is more precise.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,093 Member
    If you go to the USDA nutrition database and find the correct syntax (search string) for what you want, you can usually search for that on MFP and get a matching database entry.

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