Nutrients

EugeneBredenkamp

When I add fillet steak to my meals for the day it still shows ZERO iron which is incorrect. How do I fix it? I have the newest version of the app.

COGypsy

The MFP database is almost entirely crowd sourced, which means your entries are basically at the mercy of whatever a person felt was important to enter. You can either keep searching entries until you find one with the info you need, or else create your own to be sure it’s accurate.

yirara

Also keep in mind that this is an international database. You won't find iron, vitamins or all the other stuff on food labels in most of Europe.

AnnPT77

As stated above, the database is crowd-sourced. That means that food items are entered by regular MFP users like you and me.

Well, not quite like you and me, because we care about accuracy of the entries we create, right? Some people don't, or don't know how to get accurate information to input.

The solution is to check a food items against an authoritative source (like the USDA Food Central database), and choose an accurate entry, or create our own accurate entry. Once we use an entry, it will stay in our recent/frequent foods, and come up first when we try to add foods to our diary.

In this case, consider the entry "Beef, loin, tenderloin steak, boneless, separable lean only, trimmed to 0" fat, choice, raw', or one of the others with similarly crazy-detailed titles if yours was weighed cooked or had a bone or whatever. (I think tenderloin steak is what we'd call fillet steak here in the US, not positive.)

Often, the true USDA items in the database - which were loaded when MFP started up - have that kind of text description (something only a bureaucrat would love), some (not usually meats) usually have default quantity in cups (but many other options). The meats may have a default in "pieces", but have weights in the drop-down, typically. After a while, I can usually guess the bureaucratic name often enough to get the USDA entry on my first try. I found the one above pretty quickly, and I don't even eat meat, like never.

cwolfman13

EugeneBredenkamp wrote: »

When I add fillet steak to my meals for the day it still shows ZERO iron which is incorrect. How do I fix it? I have the newest version of the app.

create your own entry or select an entry that is correct and complete from the database. You can tag a search with "USDA" which is always what I did for whole food items. Most of the database is crowdsourced from other users so there are many incomplete and/or incorrect entries.

westrich20940

Do not use MFP to keep track of micronutrients.