which is more accurate-bar code or Nutrition Facts?

20carrots

I bought some ciabatta at a discount store. When I scan the barcode with MFP the brand comes up a different name and the nutrition is different than on th elabel--a difference of a 100 calories or so per serving and 200mg of sodium.

Which do you think is more accurate?

Rae6503

The bar code has been connected to nutrition facts by a user and therefore is apparently wrong in this case. There is an option to find a better match.

20carrots

really? How can you do that from the app?

mfpcopine

really? How can you do that from the app?

Same question. You can scan the bar code? Is there a computer app, in addition to a phone app?

joy31021

how do you scan a barcode with mfp?

Rae6503

After you scan it, under the nutrition info there's an option that says "Not correct? Find Better Match". Then you have to search for it. Not sure if that changes what is saved to that bar code for the future though.

20carrots

for the others-you can scan barcodes from the MFP phone app. THere is a little icon that looks like, well, a barcode, in the top right (on iphone anyway). Rae-thanks, I saw what you're talking about--it's pretty far down so I"ve never seen that little gray box before.

For some reason I thought the bar code was like sent directly from the product or something and therefore extremely reliable.

Rae6503

for the others-you can scan barcodes from the MFP phone app. THere is a little icon that looks like, well, a barcode, in the top right (on iphone anyway). Rae-thanks, I saw what you're talking about--it's pretty far down so I"ve never seen that little gray box before.

For some reason I thought the bar code was like sent directly from the product or something and therefore extremely reliable.

I totally thought the same thing until I had one come up as not being in the system and it asked me to find it.