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Possibility to add nutrients to diary

hthamalainen
hthamalainen Posts: 1 Member
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It would be great if one could add freely custom nutrient values and goals to a diary. For example different vitamins (especially D and B-complex), magnesium, zinc etc. Tracking those would help monitoring intake values.
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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    The biggest issue with that is that many of those kinds of micronutrients aren't required on food labels. Database entries are crowdsourced from other users and most of that data comes from food labels so even if you could track them, they'd be largely unavailable from the source. In general I wouldn't put a lot of stock into tracking micro-nutrition on MFP...a lot of entries in general are missing that kind of information even if it is on the food label.

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