Staying on track with the fats consumption

corneliupavaloi
corneliupavaloi Posts: 2 Member
in Food and Nutrition
HI there! For what I wanna do, to reach my goal, my daily calories intake is 1516 per day.
After some research, I prefer for my metabolism a balance of 50% Carbohydrates, 25% protein and 25% fat.
That leads the MFP app to say, that I need 42g of Total Fat in my diet daily, out o each 18g Saturated, 0g polyunsaturated, 0g Monounsaturated and 0g Trans.
To my knowledge, those 4 types are the breakdown of the total fat, and on all the Nutrition Information labels that I read, all 4 types of fat grams added together equals the total grams of total fat.
So, how come MFP says I have to take 18 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 42 ?
Can anybody please explain?

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  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    My guess would be that there is no official medical recommendation for % of poly-un and mono-un, while there is for total and saturated fats.
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    My guess would be that there is no official medical recommendation for % of poly-un and mono-un, while there is for total and saturated fats.

    yep
  • corneliupavaloi
    corneliupavaloi Posts: 2 Member
    That make sense, what it does not make sense is for MFP app to keep showing that you are on "red" with your poly-un and mono-un only because you had 1 gram of each, altho you're way under you're goal with your total fats, witch they have to be composed out of some of those as well.
    Anyway, I guess I'm just gonna keep ignoring some of the limitations of the app and keep up the good work.
    Thank you for you're reply!

    P.S. did any of you think as well that it would be nice to have different color background (green for example) for the nutrition that we should try to achieve, like proteins and, let's say red for the nutrients that we try to avoid like fats ... in the "Nutrient Details" screen, kind of like in the "Calorie Breakdown" screen. And any of the nutrients from the Protein down inclusive (Vitamines, Calcium, Iron etc) should not show in red when over goal, but in green, that's what I think.

    :)
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    That make sense, what it does not make sense is for MFP app to keep showing that you are on "red" with your poly-un and mono-un only because you had 1 gram of each, altho you're way under you're goal with your total fats, witch they have to be composed out of some of those as well.
    Anyway, I guess I'm just gonna keep ignoring some of the limitations of the app and keep up the good work.
    Thank you for you're reply!

    P.S. did any of you think as well that it would be nice to have different color background (green for example) for the nutrition that we should try to achieve, like proteins and, let's say red for the nutrients that we try to avoid like fats ... in the "Nutrient Details" screen, kind of like in the "Calorie Breakdown" screen. And any of the nutrients from the Protein down inclusive (Vitamines, Calcium, Iron etc) should not show in red when over goal, but in green, that's what I think.

    :)

    I'm just glad that we have the app for free. I don't care what the colors are. :smile:

    But also, the goals aren't the same for everyone. Someone with diabetes or kidney disease may have to watch protien to make sure they don't get too much. Too muchof some micro-nutrients can be also be unhealthy for some people. Nothing is one-size-fits-all when it comes to diet, so I have no problem with the generic under is green and over is red.

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