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Is there anyone who can help me to understand how to find right items calories that we eat? TIA

romi_makan
romi_makan Posts: 1 Member
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It’s going to be of a great help

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  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,997 Member
    Question unclear.

    Are you asking what should you eat?
    That’s completely up to you.
    Depends on where you’re currently at, and what your goals are.

    Also you might want to post this in “food and nutrition”
    This is the debate category, and you might not want a debate about your diet.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,616 Member
    I share Margaret's slight confusion about your exact question.

    If the question is how to find accurate entries in the MFP food database, the very knowledgeable @kshama2001 has posted good info about this on other threads, which I hope she won't mind me copying one version of here:
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    . . . 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.)

    If she has a more current or helpful version of this already-helpful (IMO) comment, I'm sure she'll clarify here.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,616 Member
    By the way, I agree with Margaret that you might get more/better answers in a different section of the Community.

    If you'd like this thread to be moved to the "Food and Nutrition" section as she suggests, that would be simple. You would click on "Flag" below your post, then click on "Report". In the box that appears, click "Other", and in the "Notes" box type something like "This is my post. Could you please move it from Debate Club to Food and Nutrition?", then click the "Send report" button at the bottom of that box.

    There won't be an instant change, but this will bring it to the attention of MFP's volunteer moderators. They're busy people, in addition to being unpaid volunteers, but it's likely that they will eventually move it to the other topic area for you when they're signed on and they have time to do that.

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