People who log your food should read this

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  • Miss_Aurora
    Miss_Aurora Posts: 93
    Let me start off with - yes, i agree with you to some extent. Although, something you may not have considered when posting this is that companies tweak their ingredients constantly. Just today, I found two individual packs of chips ahoy cookies with different nutrition facts on the back. One I bought a couple months ago and one I bought this past weekend. So, the new information came up incorrectly because it matched the old info.

    so, it may not be the person entering the information, just that the information is old.

    Was just going to say something similar to this!!

    And I went into something .. looked up Nutrition information .. clicked "NO" in answer to if it was correct ... and it let me edit it.

    Mind you ... I put the wrong amount in one field ... but realised my mistake and edited it. Human error occurs at time.

    It's the same with people who say to eat back exercise calories .. but there can be more than one entry on the same item .. hundreds of calories per hour different.

    Is there a reliable place for calories for those of us that don't have a calorie counting watch/device?
  • lenoresaari
    lenoresaari Posts: 500 Member
    I totally agree on this. I want to know calories for the obvious reasons but I am also using the nutritional information for sodium to help me keep my blood pressure down and cholesterol to keep my numbers in order. I also need to watch my sugar due to hypoglycemia. This has been educational for me as well but it really defeats the purpose if people are screwing with the truth.
  • lenoresaari
    lenoresaari Posts: 500 Member
    I had a slice of chocolate cake for 106 calories on my birthday~~

    LOL:smooched:
  • MsLilly200
    MsLilly200 Posts: 192 Member
    Let me start off with - yes, i agree with you to some extent. Although, something you may not have considered when posting this is that companies tweak their ingredients constantly. Just today, I found two individual packs of chips ahoy cookies with different nutrition facts on the back. One I bought a couple months ago and one I bought this past weekend. So, the new information came up incorrectly because it matched the old info.

    so, it may not be the person entering the information, just that the information is old.


    This is almost exactly what I was going to post. In addition, the same foods have different makeups for different countries. Just another thing to consider.

    This is so true.
    For example, a swedish bic mac burger is 450 calories, but if I just search "big mac" in the database alot of the entries are 500 or 550 calories and that's a pretty big diffrence to me with my 1250 calories a day.
    And I'm not even gonna compare the rest of the info...
  • fihealth
    fihealth Posts: 165 Member
    Amen
  • bcassill2013
    bcassill2013 Posts: 72 Member
    New to MFP and Loving it, but, also a little annoyed at the large number of inaccurate food entries in the database.

    Would be great if the site owners / moderators can do some fact checking of some kind to keep the database more accurate!!
  • lindseym18
    lindseym18 Posts: 48 Member
    Thank you!!!!!! Sometimes it takes me forever to find the correct information on my foods! I must be the only one on this website who likes accurate micro-nutrients :mad:
  • anniemallais
    anniemallais Posts: 3 Member
    I wonder if this is why I'm showing over on a lot of area's, such as protein. I'm new to this and I'm using the web based MFP. So I really need to double check the packaging. Makes me a little irritated too. Does someone monitor this sort of thing, or are we all on our own with the database that is provided.
  • wfte
    wfte Posts: 195 Member
    There will always be differences between carb and fibre numbers on some items due to the different listing in the US and other countries.
  • lindseym18
    lindseym18 Posts: 48 Member
    you can build up foods in your own personal database on this site, you just don't click the "add food to MFP database" option. The food is saved in "my foods" and only you can see it or find it when you search.

    For anyone who's doing things a bit different, like not counting fibre carbs or protein calories, then it's better to keep it in your personal database and not include it in the main database. You can build up your own personal database of foods with the values calcuated according to your way of doing it, without causing problems for everyone who's counting calories the regular way.

    Amen!!!!!
  • kjarvo
    kjarvo Posts: 236 Member
    I have just changed something now - Someone had put 'Warburtons - Crumpets with butter), and the values were all exact for a crumpet WITHOUT butter! why would you do that? are you trying to kid yourself?
    I changed the title, but I am not sure if it saves for the whole database
  • corrinadavis
    corrinadavis Posts: 34 Member
    OMG, are you for real...I thought everything on the food lists were accurate, silly me for thinking that some food items are not put in correctly. I have had to put some food items into the system and always look at the label, this is very important. Another option for those who only want to use their own measurements is when you put the food item in, the progam asks you if you want to share this food with others. if it is not as the labeled item shows, do not share it, this would mean that it is incorrect. Thank you for bringing this up, now I am going to have to take more time looking to make sure my food items are correct, being that I eat pretty much the same foods in a five week period, this should not be to hard, but trusting what is on the system is no longer something I will do if this is the case.
  • nancycaregiver
    nancycaregiver Posts: 812 Member
    Well I'll probably get beaten up for this, but I do low carb and subtract fiber from carbs. I appreciate that there are many items listed with adjusted or net carbs. When I search, I add the word"carbs" to my search and it brings up the information I need. They are always labeled as such so you don't have to use that one. Just because I do things differently than you does not make me WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. Check out my ticker. This lifestyle works for me. I know it's not for everyone but that doesn't make everyone else wrong. Do what works for you. But please leave my adjusted carb entries alone.

    Ok, let the blasting begin. I can ake it.
  • naticksdonna
    naticksdonna Posts: 190 Member
    I noticed this the first day I was logging. Now I double check everything on the national database or enter my own stats and don't enter them in the database, especially if I don't put things like calcium, or cholesterol, etc. If I have all the info I'll enter it. The database counts on everyone entering items properly; unfortunately, that doesn't always happen. I was looking up a low-carb bread last week - there were several entries for exactly what I was looking for - and I checked each one - and only two were accurate. The others had been entered willy-nilly.
  • brinkcraven
    brinkcraven Posts: 1 Member
    I just signed up here after searching a few times over the course of several months for restaurant and whole food nutritional information and the results were mostly ridiculous. Now I understand it is not as easy to procure the nutritional info for restaurants&whole foods as it may be for packaged food. But I only use this application for restaurants and whole foods personally because thats all I eat. anyway, I looked up some info about these foods and it said that the "deep fried avocado taco" has 300 total calories and has ZERO fat calories! LOL. wha, I said to myself!!! Anyway, this is more than a little frustrating for me who like I said doesnt even eat packaged foods. I really want to use this service because I think its great but when you look up a whole food item and it has 20 different results for "a small hass avocado" its pretty annoying. I just average those numbers which is not a huge deal but giving outright false info (like the zero fat cals in a fried food anything) is dangerous to those who dont know any better. Anyway I just wanted to ask that everyone THINK about other people using this service before you post nutritional info please!

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