fish protein

DianeAvery1

I put 6 oz. of fish on my food log (?) it doesn´t give the protein amount ,why I know there is a lot of protein in it, so why wrong numbers, I don´t want to cheat,this is very important weight lose for me, are my numbers all wrong?

panda4153

The foods in the database are entered by other members so if they do not enter it correctly it can result in inaccurate data. Try searching for the specific fish you ate how you cooked it followed by USDA for example “salmon baked usda”

cannedgoo

Most of the entries in the food database are user generated. Some do not have all of the info available - just calories. If you look for entries with the green check mark, it means they have all of the nutritional info filled out (but are not necessarily from an official source).

For fish specifically, make sure you’re entering the breed of fish (tilapia, salmon, flounder, etc). I usually add “usda” as a keyword when I search as well to get results that were populated based on USDAs nutritional information, and so it is likely most accurate.

Finally, if you bought your fish in a prepackaged bag (there’s vacuum sealed frozen tilapia for cheap that I sometimes pick up), you could always scan the barcode and see if it pops up with the right info

lemurcat2

Here's the current replacement for the USDA food search (sigh, the old one was better): https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/

You can search here to check numbers or get the search terms. MFP inputted a lot of USDA entries back in the day (the ones that say USDA are usually good too, but were user inputted).

There also should be a lot of measurement options for the good entries. In the alternative, if your fish had packaging, just try to find the entry that corresponds.

For salmon, I put in salmon cooked, unchecked everything but SR legacy, and got "fish, salmon, ___, cooked, dry heat." The blank is the type you had (so chinook, atlantic, so on). Those are the words to use to pull up the good entries. If an entry doesn't have protein included, I'd assume it's an unreliable entry and find a different one. There are tons of salmon entries in the database.

It is also important to specify whether cooked or not with many foods including meats like salmon.