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p_daniel1960
p_daniel1960 Posts: 1 Member
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I don’t understand how this auto tracker says I used 23 grams of carbohydrates for breakfast when all I ate was 4 eggs and 2 slices of cheese,should have been like 5gm carbs? Is this system that in accurate? Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you

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  • trixsterjl31
    trixsterjl31 Posts: 213 Member
    edited October 2024
    Ya it isn't correct. Eggs and cheese should have almost zero carbs. You can see on the list which is giving you the carbs though and find another listing for that item. If it is just eggs and cheese. I made a 3 egg omelet 2 days ago with 1/4 cup of rye flower and a cup of chopped green/red pepper and it was 26 carbs the egg and cheese have 4 at most if you cooked them in any kind of fat.

    Read a bit mor because I knew mcdonalds eggs list as 1 carb and egg containers always say zero. An egg has .3-.7 carbs. Cheese normally about 1 carb unless it is some crazy special cheese. so 4 at most.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,439 Member
    The food database is crowd sourced, i.e., entered by regular users like you and me . . . except some aren't as meticulous as you and me. Chose inaccurate entries from the food database, get inaccurate totals.

    Look at the individual food items you logged. One or more of them lists carbs. If that's incorrect, find a correct entry for the same food, and log that instead.

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