Having to search for recent foods

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kathymhardy
kathymhardy Posts: 278 Member
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MFP is no longer automatically finding some of my recently logged food items. I am having to search for them every day. It’s so frustrating. Anyone else finding this?

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  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,187 Member

    I have been noticing this, but it's limited to the app (recently logged foods still show up in the web platorm) and it's very … specific. Most foods are still showing up even in the app, but every so often something that I Iogged for the first time recently won't show up in the app. I think that it's happening with foods that I logged on the website, but I'm not sure, as I haven't been willing to spend the time experimenting or keeping a separate list of where I first logged something new.

  • kathymhardy
    kathymhardy Posts: 278 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48692526#Comment_48692526

    Thank you. Glad it’s not just me. I never use the web version, just the app on my phone, so it can’t be for the reason you suggested.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,799 Member
    edited July 19
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48692526#Comment_48692526

    ^This had been happening to me for a very long time until recently. Mysteriously it "fixed" itself? Dunno. I am only on the website.

    Also, some foods I entered into the database a while ago (like longish time ago…years) don't show up in my Recents list when I use them from the database. It's super annoying but I am loathe to try to explain it to Support nor get into a back-and-forth with them. That's even more annoying to me.

  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,187 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48692770#Comment_48692770

    Some years back (best guess 5+ years) things I had logged frequently -- consistently in my top five most frequent -- disappeared from most frequent over night, and I had to page back through the recent list to log them (I was still using the web site almost exclusively in those days).

    It's always something with MFP.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,046 Member

    This is pure speculation: I know for certain that MFP has had people working on improving accuracy of the food database. It's a slow behind the scenes thing. Most users don't seem to be noticing the improvements, but I've seen some signs of it.

    Here's the speculation part: I'm guessing that some entries are deleted or consolidated in the process. It's conceivable that if we logged something that's been deleted or materially changed, it may disappear from the search list.

    Nearly everyone seems to want duplicates and obvious errors removed from the database, entries that don't have all the knowable nutrition filled in, etc. If that is done, there will be some consequences. Is that part of what could be behind not finding things we've previously used? No way to know for sure.

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