How do I delete foods from the diary?

pgarcia43

How do I delete foods from the diary?

carolynstringer

I have alot of foods I only ate once, and I would like to delete them, seems I only have the option to delete foods that are in the frequent food tab, Can anyone help me?

CyberTone

I assume you are asking about the Recent list and not your actual Food Diary, because you can go back to individual days in your Food Diary and delete the food items one by one.
If so, here is some information about the Recent list I have posted in the past, because this question gets posted a lot.
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​​The Recent list just displays up to the last 100 items you, yourself, added to your Food Diary. Those food items will eventually drop off of the Recent list display after you log more items. You can not delete them from the Recent list. If you want, you can change your default display to the Frequent list, from which you can hide previous food items that you added to your Food Diary and do not want to see displayed on a list of foods. On the Web version, navigate to FOOD > Settings and change Default Add Food View to Frequent.

The only way to have the Recent list not display those items that you added to your Food Diary is for you to go back to your Food Diary and delete all instances of those unwanted items from every day that you logged them. However, if you delete those unwanted entries from your Food Diary, be aware that your macros will not be correct for those previous days and any Reports, if you use that, will not be correct.

Starryjewell

I can't find where I can click on the food item to delete off of my food diary either. I made a list of ingredients but the nutritional guide on one of the ingredients was complete off, and now I can't remove any of it off of my food diary (AM Snack)!

golgoroo

For the original poster (OP):

on the actual site, you can hit the red minus sign on the right of any food in your diary - that will delete it

if you're using the app, you need to pull the food to the left & a red "delete" button will appear

CyberTone

There are different methods for deleting an item from the Food Diary, depending on the platform (Web, iOS, or Android).
Please see this article, and many other helpful articles, on the MFP Help pages...
myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/374439-how-do-i-delete-an-entry-from-my-food-diary-