Scan Barcode to add food?

tiredtwinmummy

Am I going mad? So you can scan a barcode to add a food or a quick add. But if you want to add a food to your food list, you can’t? Is there a way to do it?

Cheesy567

I don’t think so. You could add it as a meal, which saves it long-term as opposed to your food list which is only 3- or 6-months or so. (I have several “meals” that function to save foods, like “use these chicken entries” to hold the various cooked vs raw, skinned vs not, boned vs not, breast vs thigh and multitude of variations thereof, rather than starting from scratch and trying to find the accurate listing in the database. Same with “seasonal veggies” that drop off my food list but I use often enough that I get tired of searching anew. Someone had a request for a “refrigerator list” function, and I thought that might make a handy meal option, maybe?)

That’s just a work around idea you might try. If you have a tip or suggestion for MFP you want to request, you can request it at the Tip and Suggestion forum:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/feature-suggestions-and-ideas

judith4jc

1) yes, very aggravating in premium version that we have to manually enter into our My Food list. We need to do this by scanning the barcode.

2) Are you saying that food we have added to My Food list gets dropped off after an amount of time? (I may have misunderstood)

TY

lynn_glenmont

judith4jc wrote: »

1) yes, very aggravating in premium version that we have to manually enter into our My Food list. We need to do this by scanning the barcode.

2) Are you saying that food we have added to My Food list gets dropped off after an amount of time? (I may have misunderstood)

TY

Foods should stay in your my food list until another user edits it (if you made it usable by other MFP users) or theoretically forever (if you did not make it usable by other MFP users).

Foods should stay on your "recent" list until there are enough unique more recent foods in your diary to knock it off the list (which is four pages of maybe 25 entries on the website -- not sure if they use the same number on the apps).

On the website, the "frequent" list is one page of maybe 30 entries. Again, not sure if they use the same number on the apps, and I don't know how far back MFP looks in generating the "frequent" list (most frequent in the last month? In the last six months?)

For both the recent and frequent lists, you can dig a little deeper by switching between "all meals" and a particular meal (on the website, you're limited to switching to the meal you're currently logging to, but on the Android app, at least, you can switch to any particular meal after you're already in the search page, by clicking on the name of the meal at the top of the page.

durden

There's a misconception that the Barcode Scanner is actually pulling the information of the food directly from the barcode; that's not currently possible as that information isn't stored that way.

Because of this, it's not possible to Scan a Barcode for a food item that doesn't exist yet, because the scanner is just associating X food item on MFP (that already exists in our system) with Y barcode.