How to report a food for removal from the database?

gswladecki
gswladecki Posts: 3 Member
in Food and Nutrition
There are more foods that are totally wrong than correct ones. The reporting only seems to be for correcting incorrect portions of an entry, as opposed to killing everything with fire.

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,321 Member
    "reporting" doesn't do anything.

    If you can't find one you want to use, just create your own new entry.

    Takes about 30 seconds, then it's in your MY FOODS and you know it's right.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,053 Member
    Yeah, the MFP database is a cluttered, glitchy mess.

    I eat mostly foods that can be found in the "SR Legacy Foods" tab of the USDA database. They often use a complicated syntax which makes them easy to spot. Ex: "Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, cooked, roasted."

    Here's my standard response for finding accurate entries:

    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. All ADMIN entries from the USDA will have weights as an option BUT there is a glitch whereby sometimes 1g is the option but the values are actually for 100g. This is pretty easy to spot though, as when added the calories are 100x more than is reasonable.

    https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

    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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