No fat, protein, or carbs?

Tywana

I wonder why some foods I add in my food intake show no carbs, fat or proteins? I had a wendy's bacon cheese burger this afternoon and when I added it to my fitness pal it showed 310 cals but no fat, protein or carbs. My special k snack bars show no carbs as well. Can anyone explain?:noway:

vickyclare96

Hi,
Maybe the person that put in the food didn't know all the nutrition information but knew the cals?
Vicky :flowerforyou:

kelly829

it was probably added by a member.

heather0mc

i believe some of the data in the data base is incorrect. i would suggest finding another entry with the correct information or adding your own version so you know for sure it is correct.

SusieSonshine

I wonder why some foods I add in my food intake show no carbs, fat or proteins? I had a wendy's bacon cheese burger this afternoon and when I added it to my fitness pal it showed 310 cals but no fat, protein or carbs. My special k snack bars show no carbs as well. Can anyone explain?:noway:

You can look up the nutrition facts on their website (http://www.wendys.com/food/Nutrition.jsp) and then edit the food on MFP.

All the best on your journey!!!

:flowerforyou:

jowily

There are a bunch of wendys bacon cheeseburgers that I saw - and they all had fat and carbs (like 12 and 24...something like that). I am not sure how you found yours...but look up another one that has all the nutrients filled out.

iRun4wine

If there is a little star (*) before the food in the database, it means it was entered by a MFP member and therefore is not official. Although I'd love to think that all of the numbers are accurate, for whatever reason, they're not. The majority are, but it doesn't hurt to double check (and correct) any numbers you're using :flowerforyou:

FireMonkey

Yeah, if something sounds too good to be true it probably is. I had a chocolate chip cookie yesterday and when I tried to enter it I found wildly varying numbers in the DB, from a heart-attack inducing 256 cals for one small cookie to a more reasonable 80 cals. I finally went back to the box (lunchroom at work) and looked it up. Double checking is a good idea.

Sometimes homemade meals can be tricky to enter - I found this helpful:

http://www.dietitians.ca/public/content/eat_well_live_well/english/recipeanalyzer/recipeanalyzer.asp