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mab0669
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I'm noticing that a lot of the food in the database is wrong, even though it has a lot of confirmations. I'm not going to trust foods added by users. I use to trust a food if it had a lot of confirmations, but not anymore. I've found errors on 5 entries between yesterday and today and some of the errors were huge! Anyone else running into this?
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Yes! There is an awful lot wrong. I don't know what is wrong, but I definately double check everything.0
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I've noticed that there are regional packaging differences. So what may be correct in my region is incorrect in another region. A slice of cheese may be a certain number of grams, and hence a certain number of calories, but the same company packages a slightly smaller slice in other states. (I discovered this when I moved...) So there may be confirmations by people who live in the same area, for whom the information is correct.0
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I'm noticing that a lot of the food in the database is wrong, even though it has a lot of confirmations. I'm not going to trust foods added by users. I use to trust a food if it had a lot of confirmations, but not anymore. I've found errors on 5 entries between yesterday and today and some of the errors were huge! Anyone else running into this?
When I see something crazy off, it makes me be far more diligent about adding in foods new to the database when I do, I double and triple check myself just in case I mistyped something. :drinker:
Have a good day!0
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