Hello

ytskw

Now that I've got that out of the way, I have a suggestion. It concerns Saltgrass Steakhouse.

I recently ordered the lunch portion of Tenderloin Tips, which comes on a bed of mashed potatoes. In your database, it shows 1641 calories for 24oz or 68.735 calories for 1oz. I don't have a scale and wouldn't have used it in the restaurant in any case.

The calorie count that's shown on the menu is 770 calories. I called the manager of the restaurant where I ate and he said they dish the thing up in 770 calorie portions. Since 770 calories doesn't go evenly into 1641 calories, and since I also track fats, salt, net carbs, etc. I was wondering what to do. I finally figured out that if took a ratio of 770/1641 and multiplied that by the other things I track besides calories, that would get me pretty close. As it turns out, it's about 2 servings per "container". (Actually, it works out to 2.13116 servings per 24oz.)

My suggestion is that you do the math (because lots of people have trouble with that kind of thing) and show the nutrition information for a 770 calorie portion, rather than a 1641 calorie portion. I'm sure that's the way it comes to the restaurant, or the way it is sold to catering companies or some such thing, but 1641 calories per portion is way different from 770 calories, like it says on the menu.

I've used MyFitnessPal for research ever since I was told I'm diabetic. It's a handy tool. But it would be even handier if you'd actually do this kind of research and math yourself, rather than making us figure it out and hope we got it right.

AnnPT77

Unfortunately, here in the MFP Community, you're not talking to MFP staff, but generally only to regular MFP users like you and me. If you have suggestions for official MFP , you would want to put them in this section:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/feature-suggestions-and-ideas

That's the only part that MFP staff routinely read. There are just too many posts in the total Community for the small staff to keep up with all the posts in all the other areas.

Doubly unfortunately for this specific suggestion, the items in the food database are almost entirely all added by regular MFP users like you and me. That means that those users will enter the foods in any way that seems good to them, and for some weird reason whoever added that Tenderloin Tips item seems to have entered it in a very bizarre way. (Who knows, maybe the portion size used to be bigger, maybe a differnt location had a different portion size, maybe whoever entered it ate 2.13 orders of that menu item, or added something to it . . . ?)

On the more positive side, if you want it to be different in the database, you can edit it yourself (which will create a separate database item, leaving the old one there, too), or add it as your own food with the entries you know are correct.

Best wishes!