Weekly Digest problem

deckerp

On the web and on my phone the Weekly Digest says:

Sips and Spirits

Alcoholic beverages 🍸

Your drinks count, too.

I did not, nor do I ever, drink alcohol. There must be an error.

AnnPT77

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10934355/weekly-digest-problem

Does it have a non-zero count in front of it? If it has a zero, it's correct. That section always is included in the digest, even if a person has had no alcoholic beverages.

If it has a non-zero number, it may be misclassifying something in your diary because of the name of the thing. The food names have to be the main thing they have to go on when identifying what to count. Speaking as someone with a career history in data quality and data definition . . . that doesn't work very well. For example, if you had a food or drink that contained words like "mimosa", "highball", "Old Fashioned", "Manhattan", "Spirits", etc., it could mis-identify. Ditto for a case if you used something like "Bloody Mary Mix" (but didn't add alcohol), had a non-alcoholic dessert named for a cocktail flavor ("Margarita Cheesecake", maybe even "Margarita Pizza" depending on how nuanced the algorithm is), and so forth.

For sure, it undercounts some things. It may over-count others.

Alatariel75

Yup, it always shows that, but with a 0 if none are detected in your log.

deckerp

It has a non-zero number. It has 1.

Diet Pepsi, water, 2% milk, 7-Up, Starry, Diet Coke, Pibb Xtra, Pepsi Zero Sugar, Sprite.

Alatariel75

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48518436#Comment_48518436

The feature in in beta, and it's very much not accurate.

You'll need to look at more than just your beverages. You know that those items are beverages, the database/algorithm does not. It could be any item you logged, as Ann sets out above

Consider that when you create an entry, there's no categorisation is a food, beverage, supplements etc, so it doesn't know whether the item is food, drink, or otherwise. Then there's no option to include an alcohol %, so it's not picking alcoholic drinks from that information, so the only information it is using to determine if there's an alcoholic beverage in there is the name of the item. Who knows what it is reading and deciding is alcohol based solely on the name.

It really is the bit of the digest that makes it nothing more than a gimmick. Mine is telling me I logged 13 veg. But I logged multiple items that have multiple different types of veg in them, so how would it know how many I really ate? It's got nothing to go on but the name and nutritional information. It doesn't have the ingredients etc.

deckerp

OK. After reading these comments and me not being a drinker, the only thing I can see in the last week it might have seen was Jack's Cheese Pizza.

LOL.

Thanks everyone.