Lunacy in the MFP food database

TimSPC
TimSPC Posts: 39 Member
in Food and Nutrition
What is the biggest lunacy in the MFP food database? Here are three to start:

1. Try adding a turkey sandwich that's not from Subway. Go ahead and find one.
2. The zillion Chipotle entries
3. People who don't understand what the word "generic" means. I searched for "generic bacon" and the top results include "Generic - 2 Slices Hormel Bacon" and "Generic - 2 Slices of Oscar Mayer Turkey Bacon". HORMEL AND OSCAR MAYER ARE THE BRANDS. IF THEY HAVE BRANDS, THEY'RE NOT GENERIC!

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  • Rilke
    Rilke Posts: 1,201 Member
    Well, for #1 at least, you can search "homemade turkey sandwich".
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    Chipotle has a nutrition calculator where you can tally up the separate ingredients and it spits out a calorie total. Google should bring it up. I eat there a lot so it's a lifesaver.

    Often it's best just to tally up separate ingredients for foods. At least with homemade foods. More accurate and less searching.
  • atrebor18
    atrebor18 Posts: 235 Member
    or search for the individual ingredients in the sandwich, that's what i do and its usually more accurate. when i eat out at chipotle or subway or where ever I use their website to calculate my food and add it as one of my foods and not to the database...idk why everyone else doesn't do it that way
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    Sperm.
  • Sqeekyjojo
    Sqeekyjojo Posts: 704 Member
    What's so hard about adding

    Turkey
    Bread
    Tomato
    Lettuce ?

    It's going to be more accurate for a start.
  • marsellient
    marsellient Posts: 591 Member
    Pork - Cured, bacon, raw


    I've been told to look for entries like the above, without asterisks, and raw foods. They offer the most variations in measurements and are the most accurate.
  • Sammyk50
    Sammyk50 Posts: 77 Member
    I'm gonna try that :)
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    For the turkey sandwich, well, really, just enter everything separately otherwise just don't bother logging it because it will not be accurate at all.

    For chipotle, seriously people need to make their own entry and stop sharing it. Nobody else will eat exactly the same thing!

    Agreed for #3, but I guess using MFP doesn't necessarily mean you have brains.

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