Calories showing up wrong?

Most listings in the database are user entered so there may be mistakes made. Plus the site is used internationally so a Hershey kiss in the US may not be exactly the same as a Hershey kiss in Canada. Keep checking your labels and see if other listings may be more accurate as there are probably several for those nuggets.

You can also edit entries, at least on the website. When you're searching for a food, you get a list on the left side. If you click on a food, the box on the right is filled in with basic serving data and allows you to click to add the food to your diary. That box also has a hyperlink that says "nutritional info (or data?)". When you click on that, you can check to see that the info matches what your packaging says. If it doesn't, click "No" on the right and edit the entry so it will match.

And yes, it does happen a lot but in most cases, like yours, it's not off by much. Just keep checking your labels to be sure you have the right serving size and that the nutrional info is accurate.

If you have the package on hand always check it and if it is wrong just add it in yourself, I try to but generally if you can't whatever is there tends to be a pretty good ball park. I know a lot of the time I just do my best and hope its right, especially when eating out as most of the time you don't have a nutrition label in front of you.

I entered in 2 pieces of Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate with Almonds nuggets and it is show 50 calories per 1 piece. I looked at the bag yesterday and a serving size is 4 pieces for 190 calories (I think) so that doesn't add up. If I ate 4 pieces (the serving size) my calories would be higher than what is showing on the bag.

This is such a small difference I wouldn't worry. As others have said it could be a difference between international / US or even different packaging. I went looking for Barilla manicotti today and found a listing for the the completed recipe showing 130 calories per serving. That's a mere 90 calories off. I just wonder how many people don't reallize it's incorrect and think they're eating low cal.

I have the my fitness pal app on my phone so if I have the package I always scan the package with the scanner that is provided with the app and before I go out to eat... I find myself looking at the nutrition facts

Just enter the foods yourself with the info off the packages or scan using the barcode scanner!

The barcode scanner doesn't always give the correct info - I used it on the manicotti shells and it was totally off. Someone posted the other day that she always uses the barcode scanner and then enters the data for the prepared dish because it's "so much more convenient".

Yea, im usually thinking non of this is 100% correct. Not even the veggies...So i use the give\take method. Meaning i basically know that the calories are close but maybe off a few here and there. So i use is only as a guide and i normally workout MORE than i actually list. So if i workout twice a day and do cardio, i only add my workout once...that way....I cover those unknown calories. Your body dont adjust just because you log it or dont log it...so its not the be all end all...just a guide

most of the pre-packaged type stuff I get I've found to be pretty correct...i.e. my vegetables from costco, yogurt, etc. A lot of other stuff can be fairly subjective and are really just estimates. Whenever I do come across a packaged product that is wrong, I tell MFP that is is wrong and submit correct numbers. I also use my bar code scanner a lot.

BTW, being 10 calories off isn't going to make or break you. These are really all estimates anyway. As you go about this, you will find yourself tweaking your calorie goals a little to represent your true goals...when I started out at 1 Lb per week per MFP recomendations, I was losing closer to 1.5...so I dialed my calorie goals up by 250 calories to make it roughly 1 Lb per week...stuff like that.