Calorie/macro counting

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  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    edited May 7
    nadia22f1818 wrote: »
    @kshama2001 first off congraaattsss on that 40pounds weight loss 🥳 and thank you for the recommendation of the app… I will give it a try and thank you as well @ninerbuff i will
    Give it a read on my lunch break 😊 for sure so much diff info depending where we read from, I do weight my food tho but the Calories & macro aren’t always the same depending from which source we take from 😫 i log as much with the green thing as “legit” but it’s not 100% which I guess is normal …

    Unfortunately, the green check marks in the MFP database are used for both USER-created entries and ADMIN-created entries that MFP pulled from the USDA database. A green check mark for USER-created entries just means enough people have upvoted the entry - it is not necessarily correct.

    To find ADMIN entries for whole foods, I get the syntax from the USDA database and paste that into MFP. All ADMIN entries from the USDA will have weights as an option BUT there is a glitch whereby sometimes 1g is the option but the values are actually for 100g. This is pretty easy to spot though, as when added the calories are 100x more than is reasonable.

    https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

    Use the “SR Legacy” tab - that's what MFP used to pull in entries.

    Note: any MFP entry that includes "USDA" was USER entered.

    For packaged foods, I verify the label against what I find in MFP. (Alas, you cannot just scan with your phone and assume what you get is correct. Note: scanning is mostly only available with Premium these days.)

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