Kale has 0 calories!
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debsms2020
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Hello, am new! Logged 3 cups of kale with the green checkmark. It comes up as 0 calories. What am I missing?
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This is a bad database entry. Having a green checkmark doesn't mean that a database entry is correct.5
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Nothing except water has zero calories.
Kale has about 30 calories per cup chopped. Even entries with a green check can be incorrect. Use values from the USDA for better accuracy, and a food scale is even more accurate than measuring cups.3 -
Thank you. What does the green check mark mean?0
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debsms2020 wrote: »Thank you. What does the green check mark mean?
It means that a certain number of users have manually marked that the entry is good. It doesn't mean that any "authority" has validated that it is correct or that anybody at MFP is monitoring or checking it.
The issue is that since this is basically crowd-sourced verification, they can be wrong. The specific issue with the kale entry, if I recall correctly, is that it used to be right and then became incorrect after it was verified.4 -
janejellyroll wrote: »debsms2020 wrote: »Thank you. What does the green check mark mean?
It means that a certain number of users have manually marked that the entry is good. It doesn't mean that any "authority" has validated that it is correct or that anybody at MFP is monitoring or checking it.
The issue is that since this is basically crowd-sourced verification, they can be wrong. The specific issue with the kale entry, if I recall correctly, is that it used to be right and then became incorrect after it was verified.
...because there aren't enough problems, now hoodoo is involved.
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janejellyroll wrote: »debsms2020 wrote: »Thank you. What does the green check mark mean?
It means that a certain number of users have manually marked that the entry is good. It doesn't mean that any "authority" has validated that it is correct or that anybody at MFP is monitoring or checking it.
The issue is that since this is basically crowd-sourced verification, they can be wrong. The specific issue with the kale entry, if I recall correctly, is that it used to be right and then became incorrect after it was verified.
Actually no. A green checkmark means the information entered is complete. You can create a food with only calorie info, and leave everything else blank, and it'll show in the database. If you take the time to enter all the nutritional data as well, it gets checkmarked, even if you made everything up.1 -
Huh. I thouhgt Jane was right...janejellyroll wrote: »debsms2020 wrote: »Thank you. What does the green check mark mean?
It means that a certain number of users have manually marked that the entry is good. It doesn't mean that any "authority" has validated that it is correct or that anybody at MFP is monitoring or checking it.
The issue is that since this is basically crowd-sourced verification, they can be wrong. The specific issue with the kale entry, if I recall correctly, is that it used to be right and then became incorrect after it was verified.
Actually no. A green checkmark means the information entered is complete. You can create a food with only calorie info, and leave everything else blank, and it'll show in the database. If you take the time to enter all the nutritional data as well, it gets checkmarked, even if you made everything up.
But, I went and found this:
https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032273292-What-does-the-check-mark-mean-What does the check mark mean?
4 months ago Updated
When MyFitnessPal believes a food listing in its database has complete nutrition information it is marked with a.
We do our best to ensure the nutrition information for
Just because food is not a
We have retired the asterisk (*) previously used on the MyFitnessPal website to note food listings created by MyFitnessPal users.
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janejellyroll wrote: »debsms2020 wrote: »Thank you. What does the green check mark mean?
It means that a certain number of users have manually marked that the entry is good. It doesn't mean that any "authority" has validated that it is correct or that anybody at MFP is monitoring or checking it.
The issue is that since this is basically crowd-sourced verification, they can be wrong. The specific issue with the kale entry, if I recall correctly, is that it used to be right and then became incorrect after it was verified.
Actually no. A green checkmark means the information entered is complete. You can create a food with only calorie info, and leave everything else blank, and it'll show in the database. If you take the time to enter all the nutritional data as well, it gets checkmarked, even if you made everything up.
You're right - it looks like they changed it a few months ago.
That's even more unfortunate, because there are many foods with a checkmark that are completely inaccurate.3 -
cmriverside wrote: »
Huh. I thouhgt Jane was right...janejellyroll wrote: »debsms2020 wrote: »Thank you. What does the green check mark mean?
It means that a certain number of users have manually marked that the entry is good. It doesn't mean that any "authority" has validated that it is correct or that anybody at MFP is monitoring or checking it.
The issue is that since this is basically crowd-sourced verification, they can be wrong. The specific issue with the kale entry, if I recall correctly, is that it used to be right and then became incorrect after it was verified.
Actually no. A green checkmark means the information entered is complete. You can create a food with only calorie info, and leave everything else blank, and it'll show in the database. If you take the time to enter all the nutritional data as well, it gets checkmarked, even if you made everything up.
But, I went and found this:
https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032273292-What-does-the-check-mark-mean-What does the check mark mean?
4 months ago Updated
When MyFitnessPal believes a food listing in its database has complete nutrition information it is marked with a .
We do our best to ensure the nutrition information for foods accurately reflects nutrition information from the product packaging. Many of the foods in our database are created by users, and occasionally food will be marked with a that has nutrition information inaccuracies. We are always working to improve the accuracy of nutrition information for foods, and new foods are being added all the time.
Just because food is not a food does not mean it has inaccurate nutrition information.
We have retired the asterisk (*) previously used on the MyFitnessPal website to note food listings created by MyFitnessPal users.
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Thanks for looking that up.1 -
janejellyroll wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »
Huh. I thouhgt Jane was right...janejellyroll wrote: »debsms2020 wrote: »Thank you. What does the green check mark mean?
It means that a certain number of users have manually marked that the entry is good. It doesn't mean that any "authority" has validated that it is correct or that anybody at MFP is monitoring or checking it.
The issue is that since this is basically crowd-sourced verification, they can be wrong. The specific issue with the kale entry, if I recall correctly, is that it used to be right and then became incorrect after it was verified.
Actually no. A green checkmark means the information entered is complete. You can create a food with only calorie info, and leave everything else blank, and it'll show in the database. If you take the time to enter all the nutritional data as well, it gets checkmarked, even if you made everything up.
But, I went and found this:
https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032273292-What-does-the-check-mark-mean-What does the check mark mean?
4 months ago Updated
When MyFitnessPal believes a food listing in its database has complete nutrition information it is marked with a .
We do our best to ensure the nutrition information for foods accurately reflects nutrition information from the product packaging. Many of the foods in our database are created by users, and occasionally food will be marked with a that has nutrition information inaccuracies. We are always working to improve the accuracy of nutrition information for foods, and new foods are being added all the time.
Just because food is not a food does not mean it has inaccurate nutrition information.
We have retired the asterisk (*) previously used on the MyFitnessPal website to note food listings created by MyFitnessPal users.
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Thanks for looking that up.
More ridiculous changes.
Not that I ever believed the
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Unfortunately, the green check marks in the MFP database are used for both user-created entries and admin-created entries that MFP pulled from the USDA database. To find admin entries for whole foods, I get the syntax from the USDA database and paste that into MFP.
The USDA recently changed the platform for their database and it is unfortunately a little more difficult to use. I uncheck everything but SR Legacy - that seems to be what MFP used to pull in entries.
Note: any MFP entry that includes "USDA" was user entered.
For packaged foods, I verify the label against what I find in MFP. (Alas, you cannot just scan with your phone and assume what you get is correct.)
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