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add Vitamin D3

sflashinski
sflashinski Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Please add vitamin d to the nutritional information. I think it would be very helpful... :)

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,329 Member
    edited October 2020
    sflashinski wrote: »
    Please add vitamin d to the nutritional information. I think it would be very helpful... :)

    The database is crowd-sourced, i.e., entered by users. Users - the ones trying to be accurate, anyway - get the nutritional data from product labels, usually. Product labels do not tend to have a number for D3. Therefore, if MFP were to add D3 to the database as a data entry field, it would amost never have data in it. Therefore, sadly, it's very unlikely that MFP will add D3 to the database.

    Have you looked into Cronometer? (I don't know whether it has D3, but I understand that it has more micronutrient information. As a side effect, I gather it has a somewhat less comprehensive database than MFP. There are always tradeoffs.)

    Personally, I like MFP's big database. When there's a micronutrient I'm concerned about, I'll take a couple of my quite-typical eating days, and spot-check them against a more comprehensive nutritional source (such as the USDA database) to see how I'm doing, or look up good food sources of the nutrient of interest to me, and make sure I'm routinely eating them.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    When I moved back to Massachusetts from South Florida, I assumed I was going to be deficient in D, got tested when I started with a new doctor, and sure enough was deficient. I supplement, am no longer deficient, and don't worry about getting D from food.
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