Rotisserie Chicken

jessLWJ2024S

Hi just wanted to call out inaccurate information for 128g of rotisserie chicken I felt like cholesterol was too high and sodium levels so I googled it:
128grams of rotisserie chicken
271calories
15g fat
4g saturated fat
.02g trans fat
156mg cholesterol
496mg sodium
0g carbs
33g protein

Found the same for apples and blueberries if selected wrong it can make macros off for day.

Lietchi

The food database is full of incorrect database entries unfortunately, since many entries are crowdsourced. Always double-check!

AnnPT77

Hello, and welcome to the Community!

It's good of you that you're trying to improve the accuracy, sincerely, but I think there are some things about the database and MFP generally that it will be helpful to you if you understand. You can be very successful here - many people are - but it's easier if understanding the environment/functions well.

First, there isn't just one type of rotisserie chicken. It depends on whose rotisserie chicken it is, probably - which store, for example. There will be different amounts of brining, maybe oil, etc., from one source to another. Google isn't gospel.

On top of that, a key fact here is that the MFP database is largely crowd-sourced: Entered by regular MFP users like you and me. Some of them, though, aren't meticulous about accuracy. They may enter things incorrectly. Since it's an international site, some of them are in other countries, so the entries are right in the country where they are, but not in my country . . . even for manufactured food products with the same name. For food products, reformulations happen, so the nutritional information changes, but the old entries are still in the database, and in fact the old and new formulations even overlap time-wise in the marketplace for a while.

When it comes to apples and blueberries, reasonably accurate entries are in there. Nothing's perfect, of course, because one apple is sweeter than another, even at the same weight in grams. Close enough, though.

If you're using the bar code scanner, guess what? The bar codes were attached to the food by the first person who scanned that bar code, didn't find the food, and entered it. It may or may not be correct data, just like any other user-entered food. People expect the bar codes to be a direct pipeline to the food producer, and they're not. (I've been using MFP for almost a decade, never use the scanner, because it takes more time to achieve accuracy, among other reasons.)

On top of that, some bar codes get reassigned when products go out of existence. Using the scanner, you may get an incorrect entry, but you'll only be able to find an accurate one - if one's in the database, which it usually is - if you search by typing in the name, and look at entries to find the accurate ones. That's less time-consuming than it sounds, but I won't delve into good methods right now since that wasn't the question, really.

Bottom line: It's complicated!

Another thing to know is that posting in the Community isn't a way to communicate with MFP the company, or with MFP staff. The staff don't read every post in the Community, because they're mostly about interpersonal kind of help-y stuff. The Community is mainly users talking to other users.

There are a couple of areas the staff do read, Feature Suggestions and Ideas, and MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions (even though the latter is mainly for user-to-user technical help). I know there's an official way to report incorrect food database items, but - with apologies - I don't know what it is, because I just focus on finding accurate entries, not finding bad ones. There's also a way to get support via the Help function (links for that are on nearly every page) or the support email address. Those are more for actual bugs affecting an individual, though.

Wishing you much success, here!