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Calories are higher than the macros

melshaer2019
melshaer2019 Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2023 in MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions
Hi, I don’t know why the app is showing that I have took more calories than my plan, though I followed the macros goal.

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Answers

  • s1im62
    s1im62 Posts: 32,355 Member
    edited January 2022
    Some foods in the database are ridiculously wrong in their calorie counts and/or nutritional information. It is largely a community-maintained database, so there are cases of errors in entries due to misreading labels or typos when entering the data.
    If you find an error in a food's data, the database may allow you to edit it. For items with the green check-mark, if it is in error there is no way to edit it. In those cases users usually just create a new entry and put in the correct data there (you'll find some items with the term 'corrected' or 'correct' where that was done by a user - unfortunately some of those are not correct either).
    It would be nice if the system did a basic 'sanity check' to compare the calories contributed from all of the macro values with the total calories for a food serving when a new database entry is being created, but that doesn't appear to be part of the system.
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