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daily total for saturated fats

4rita
4rita Posts: 24 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I have noticed that the daily total is showing 0 for the total saturated fats I have consumed in any particular day. Yet, I know that I have had some saturated fats. Why is that? Thank You

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,011 Member
    Many of the food database entries are wrong or incomplete, so you might have used database entries where the saturated fat information was missing.

    You could cross-check the food database entries you used and perhaps find more accurate entries.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    I'm anemic and have learned that many, if not most, of the iron values for USER-created entries are wrong.

    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. A green check mark for USER-created entries just means enough people have upvoted the entry - it is not necessarily correct.

    To find ADMIN entries for whole foods, I get the syntax from the USDA database and paste that into MFP.

    https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

    The USDA changed the platform for their database in 2019 and it is unfortunately a little more difficult to use. I use the “SR Legacy” tab - 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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