How to report a mistake

amyeskimo
amyeskimo Posts: 3 Member
in Getting Started
There is a dietitian certified food in the database that has an error. How do we report it?

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,330 Member
    edited July 2024
    What do you mean, dietician certified food? Most of the foods are crowdsourced. Even the green checkmarks don't guarantee a correct entry.
    In the app you can report the food by scrolling down and then correct the entry and save it to My Foods.
    That last bit is crucial, because reporting does nothing - if you save it to My Foods you can use the corrected entry later on.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,898 Member
    With a million entries, and manufacturers changing portions and formulations, no one is tasked to fix any of them. It isn't even possible.

    In the beginning of the site, every single entry got added to the public database. At least now the tool asks if you want to share it. There are still 50 of every item in there. One of them is right! :lol: maybe...

    What Lietchi said is the best solution. It fixes it for YOU, and it only takes a few seconds.
  • ranfin007
    ranfin007 Posts: 1 Member

    How do you correct the entry before you save it to my foods

  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,330 Member
    • Report food
    • Select 'wrong/missing nutrition information'
    • Select 'save to My Foods'
    • Tap on the numbers you want to correct and enter the correct values
    • And then save by tapping on the check mark at the top
  • ddsb1111
    ddsb1111 Posts: 1,087 Member

    There is no such thing as dietician certified foods. If you’re wondering how to change something that is incorrectly uploaded, I just ignore those and create my own. Everything is crowd sourced anyway.

  • durden
    durden Posts: 4,444 MFP Staff
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48212077#Comment_48212077

    Re the fist part; that isn't actually true. We do have a team that is literally working on consolidating and fixing items in the database. Using the report function helps with that.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,898 Member
    edited August 4
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48714443#Comment_48714443

    That's a bit upsetting, honestly.

    I mean, yeah, back in the day when every item went direct to the public database - those would be good to vet.

    I am not too worried about my foods getting reported because I don't save them to the public database, but with all the changing formulations and recipes/ingredients/portion sizes - I'd think your time would be far better spent fixing the actually "fixable" things…like why can't you have one highlighted correct database for the USDA admin-entered foods or make them a different color or something? Other sites use a vetted database that can't be edited or added to by users, and then people could also add their own private entries. It wouldn't be that hard to do to put those asterisks back in to the shared database…much easier and more useful than trying to keep ahead of random user-entered items which are going to go up in number way faster than five employees can delete them.

    I would never take the time to "report" wrong entries. What if they are right for someone?

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