Percentage of vitamin intake

rachraja55

I notice, vitamin C, Vitamin A for example are set to percentages, vitamin c for example we should have 124mg-1200mg daily I took in 35mg and it bites it as 200% intake for the day.
Is there a way to change it from % to mg? I can’t find this. Not any literature at what myfitness pal considers 100%

AnnPT77

You can't change it from percents.

I don't have a link for the reference values at my fingertips, but the percents are determined based on rules in US food labeling regulations. There's a target amount that's considered 100% for labeling purposes, for each nutrient.

I've found those numbers for individual nutrients pretty easily in the past via web search .

SafariGalNYC

I asked this same question in tech .. because I take extra iron and calcium..

Would be nice to have it in mg for extra customization.

It is the rda from usda. So I increased the percentage target on my goals..
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AnnPT77

The reference values are here (among other places on the FDA site):

https://www.fda.gov/food/new-nutrition-facts-label/daily-value-new-nutrition-and-supplement-facts-labels

Scroll down the page a ways to find them in a table.

AnnPT77

P.S. I didn't do a full test, but it looks like the MFP app will let me set the % goals to any percent value I want. Therefore, if you want some different goal, perhaps you can manipulate the percent, since you now know the reference values. (I don't know whether this is a premium feature, or available in free MFP. I have premium. If you have free MFP, try it.)

For example, it looks like the reference value for Calcium is 1300mg. If I want my goal to be 2000mg, I could calculate 2000 divided by 1300 = 1.538, so call 2000 154% of the reference value, and set my goal at 154%.

Lietchi

AnnPT77 wrote: »

P.S. I didn't do a full test, but it looks like the MFP app will let me set the % goals to any percent value I want. Therefore, if you want some different goal, perhaps you can manipulate the percent, since you now know the reference values. (I don't know whether this is a premium feature, or available in free MFP. I have premium. If you have free MFP, try it.)

For example, it looks like the reference value for Calcium is 1300mg. If I want my goal to be 2000mg, I could calculate 2000 divided by 1300 = 1.538, so call 2000 154% of the reference value, and set my goal at 154%.

It works for the free version, I tried it!

kshama2001

I wouldn't bother with "should" nutrients, but only medically necessary nutrients. As I learned when I had anemia, the crowd sourced values are often missing or wrong. IMO it's not worth the time verifying and updating every scrap of info available.