Potassium app Limitations

ly2sing
ly2sing Posts: 12 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Potassium Is one of the most important minerals in the body, and yet many of the foods on your app do not include the potassium count; so I am having to track potassium manually on my phone notepad. When you update your app, is there a way you can take this into consideration; to allow users to add and track specific nutrients (including potassium) manually?

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    ly2sing wrote: »
    Potassium Is one of the most important minerals in the body, and yet many of the foods on your app do not include the potassium count; so I am having to track potassium manually on my phone notepad. When you update your app, is there a way you can take this into consideration; to allow users to add and track specific nutrients (including potassium) manually?

    The database is largely comprised of crowdsourced entries and for the most part, that nutritional information comes from food labels. Potassium isn't required on food labels in the US...as such, it doesn't get logged when a user enters a food into the database. MFP doesn't really do much of anything with the database...it's mostly user crowdsourced. This is also true for most sites/apps like this.
  • AndreaTamira
    AndreaTamira Posts: 272 Member
    ly2sing wrote: »
    Potassium Is one of the most important minerals in the body, and yet many of the foods on your app do not include the potassium count; so I am having to track potassium manually on my phone notepad. When you update your app, is there a way you can take this into consideration; to allow users to add and track specific nutrients (including potassium) manually?

    If you know the amount of potassium in a food you can always correct the nutritional data for that food and use the corrected food for logging.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,393 Member
    AndreaTamira wrote: »
    ly2sing wrote: »
    Potassium Is one of the most important minerals in the body, and yet many of the foods on your app do not include the potassium count; so I am having to track potassium manually on my phone notepad. When you update your app, is there a way you can take this into consideration; to allow users to add and track specific nutrients (including potassium) manually?

    If you know the amount of potassium in a food you can always correct the nutritional data for that food and use the corrected food for logging.

    Yeah, this.

    Also, the database does contain whole foods that were migrated from the USDA official database at the time of the setup of Myfitnesspal. Those foods (only whole foods) have the correct Potassium in them.

    The rest of the manufactured foods? All crowd-sourced. I've gotten most of my frequent ones lined up with Potassium now, but it does take a while in the beginning.

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