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Why does MyFitnesPal show that Greek Yogurt contains 0% of Vitamin A?

daniellikescycling
daniellikescycling Posts: 1 Member
in MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions
A Google Search shows that Greek Yogurt contains 20% of the daily value for Vitamin A. Which one is correct? Same issue for an Egg, MyFitnessPal reports 0%, while Google shows 8% of Vitamin A. Which do I trust?

Answers

  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,011 Member
    MFP's food database is crowdsourced, so there are many wrong and incomplete entries.
    Some people have entered foods only caring about calories (and macros) or the food labeling they based their entry on simply didn't show micronutrients.

    Best thing to do is to correct an incomplete food database entry and save it to My Foods, or to look for another entry that is correct.
    The USDA database is a good source to check for correct values for whole foods.

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