Buffalo Wild Wings entries in the database are wrong

Sailorwind
Sailorwind Posts: 158 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Wow. So I went to BWW's for lunch today and decided to have a splurge day. I went into the MFP database and decided I was willing to splurge up to 1000 for my meal (I almost never break 600 for a single meal and most weeks I'm WAY under my weekly net calorie goal) so from the numbers in our database I chose a cheeseburger and fries (something I've been craving for months). I was SO excited their regular fries were only 280 calories, which I believed cause I splurged on the fries a few weeks back. This afternoon I decided to email BWW's to see if they would send me their nutritional information. They sent me the PDF of the values as of Jan 2012. Boy are our numbers WAY off in our database. Not sure how to post the pdf to the site, or even how to make my meal I entered public, but those values need to be changed. I am on a 1400/day plan and I basically blew them all on that meal. I'm not too worried about it as one day being grossly over won't kill me, but I would hate for others to make the mistake of choosing off the database like I did.

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    The food is entered by other members of this site.

    The entries are often wrong, or are right based on how many fries that particular person ate who entered the food.

    When you choose a food, always check it to see if it is correct before you enter it. If you think it is wrong you can edit it, then it will show in your MY FOODS for your easy access later (like the next time you go to BWW).

    If it is just a random food from the database you want to edit, find the food and click it. When the blue box appears, click the "nutritional info" link in the box and you'll be taken to a white box with the food info. It asks whether the facts are correct. If you click the "No" button, you will be given the option to Edit.


  • Sailorwind
    Sailorwind Posts: 158 Member
    Yeah, I know how to edit foods but I don't know how to create a new food that will be visible to the entire database and not just "my foods".
  • floridachikk
    floridachikk Posts: 41 Member
    I'm actually concerned about this myself.. I use the food database very often, and check things when I can, but I can't do that very often. :S I also need to get a scale because that seems to be the most accurate way to measure as "contents may settle". Is it weird if we weigh our food? I don't know anyone that does IRL... But then, I don't know many people that admit to wanting to lose weight.
  • Sailorwind
    Sailorwind Posts: 158 Member
    Also, I don't know about you, but I tend to trust what people put in the database for restaurants. When the restaurants are easily checkable online they almost always match the database entry. This one was a clear exception and I wanted to make sure people knew it lest they make the same mistake.
  • Sailorwind
    Sailorwind Posts: 158 Member
    I'm actually concerned about this myself.. I use the food database very often, and check things when I can, but I can't do that very often. :S I also need to get a scale because that seems to be the most accurate way to measure as "contents may settle". Is it weird if we weigh our food? I don't know anyone that does IRL... But then, I don't know many people that admit to wanting to lose weight.
    I know plenty of people who weigh their food, it's not weird. I have a food scale in my kitchen I use all the time. I also know people who will take the food they bought and pre-measure/count it out and then store it in serving size ziplocs. I can't bring myself to use that many ziplocs, though.
  • SuperSexyDork
    SuperSexyDork Posts: 1,669 Member
    I'm actually concerned about this myself.. I use the food database very often, and check things when I can, but I can't do that very often. :S I also need to get a scale because that seems to be the most accurate way to measure as "contents may settle". Is it weird if we weigh our food? I don't know anyone that does IRL... But then, I don't know many people that admit to wanting to lose weight.

    I weigh everything. If I'm making something, I'll zero my scale out after each ingredient is added. It seems weird but to me it's far easier than using a measuring cup or spoon and it's much more accurate.
  • emmie0622
    emmie0622 Posts: 167 Member
    Go into Buffalo Wild Wing fries, then go into nutritional information. On the right hand side will be the option - is this data correct yes/no. Choose no and then enter the correct information and save it then it will be corrected in the database. You can do this for any item in the data base.
  • HopefulLeigh
    HopefulLeigh Posts: 363 Member
    Something else to consider is that restaurants tweak their menu items pretty regularly. They change the oil they use, the type of breading, the quality of the beef, the supplier, and those nutritional values change. The best thing to do is to check the restaurant's database before eating anything. I believe they are required to keep nutritional facts on hand somewhere in the restaurant, so it never hurts to ask while you're there either.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Yeah, I know how to edit foods but I don't know how to create a new food that will be visible to the entire database and not just "my foods".

    To enter a new food, just search for it in the database. If you don't find it, it will ask you "Can't find it in the database? Enter a new food." Since BWW fires are obviously already in the database, you either have to create a new entry and just ignore the warning that it's already in there, or name it something different.

    You can't "fix" what you perceive to be someone's "error" so that it is "fixed" for the entire membership. All you can do is clutter up the database even more by creating another BWW Fries entry. Literally probably 75% of the entries are different than what you would like them to be. Add to this the fact that nutrition info on packaging changes year to year, and differs from region to region.

    All you can do is be concerned with your own Food Diary, and let people learn for themselves. Restaurant food is not the same calories as they will list on their website anyway. The food is made by humans who will alter portions and ingredients from order to order. I worked in restaurants for years. Don't believe the web nutrition 100% on any food. This is all a big estimating game, and the margins are not as slim as you might think.
  • LesaDave
    LesaDave Posts: 1,480 Member
    Actually I'm glad this info was given cuz I didn't know how to edit or to delete.

    I'm going to try it now to see if I can find the "edit" section.
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