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Bizarre Barcode Scanns

rachelabdy
rachelabdy Posts: 52 Member
edited January 13 in Health and Weight Loss
I scanned a Multi pack of Arnots Tiny Teddy's this morning - and laughed out loud when the code said "McDonalds Big Mac Meal (Australia) for about 1255 calories :)
I scanned twice to make sure the barcode wasn't bent or scanned incorrectly - and yep - sure enough - same result :)
So I searched the Tiny Teddy's manually... much better - about 150 calories for a pack.
What have you scanned that came up incorrectly?

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  • KeithChanning
    KeithChanning Posts: 202 Member
    I'm sure someone will correct me, but I do not believe bar codes at the individual product level as scanned by MFP are globally unique. I find many French products are reported as US or UK products - sometimes similar but different in terms of product size, weight etc., sometimes, as in your example, wildly different.
    Sadly, this limits the otherwise phenomenal usefulness of the barcode scanning feature.
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