Macros figures not right?

kcharlie2014
kcharlie2014 Posts: 1 Member
in MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions
Does anyone know why MFP would show a cheese omelette has having 0g of protein? Obviously very wrong but it’s making me doubt MFP. 87rwugw8yu3c.png

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,807 Member
    Some tips:
    - MFP food entries are (mostly) crowdsourced: there are many wrong and incomplete entries
    - avoid using generic entries like this: first of all, you have no idea if your omelet has the same ingredients as the omelet of the person who created the database entry (eggs only, vegetables, oil/butter,...); secondly, '1 omelet' is meaningless where quantity is concerned, because you have no idea how many eggs were used, etc
    -> if you made this omelet yourself: weigh the ingredients you used and log those. And it's good to check the accuracy of the food database entries you use (for whole foods, you can compare against the USDA database; for other foods compare with the nutritional label)

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