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Weekly report additional info

leannevanderhoek1092
leannevanderhoek1092 Posts: 1 Member
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Could you please add number of pre and probiotic foods consumed for the week as additional information.
Also it would be helpful to either tap on the result for each category to get a list of the foods that make up a category or export the information.
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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,051 Member
    All MFP has to work with is the title of the food. I don't see how they're going to know which foods are probiotic.

    Don't get me wrong: I think eating probiotic foods is important. I eat lots of them, on purpose. But if I eat some kind of miso, how does MFP know that's miso with live bugs in it, rather than something that's been canned or pasteurized so it's no long a source of live organisms? Ditto for yogurt or kefir: Some are live culture, some aren't (which kind of makes them not-yogurt in my world, but the label may still say yogurt). Ditto for things like sauerkraut or kim chi or vinegar: Raw, unpasteurized versions are probiotic, canned/pasteurized ones aren't. That isn't captured in the food data in MFP.

    It would be nice if this were possible, but I think it's not . . . and I'm saying that as someone with a long career history in IT and specifically including data analysis and definition.

    Here's one option as a work-around: If probiotic foods are really important to you, create a meal slot in your diary to list those, rather than putting them in other meals. You have 6 meal slots, and you can customize those in any way you want, including renaming the default ones.

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