A friendly suggestion for users...

MFPfriend
MFPfriend Posts: 1,121 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
This has probably come up on threads before, but I just want to reiterate:

Please, please, PLEASE enter more than just the calorie when putting a food in the database. When you don't, it clogs up the database with useless foods, which is not good.

Thanks, have a great day, and happy dieting/lifestyle-changing!
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  • lvmama1
    lvmama1 Posts: 1
    Is there a way we can report the stuff that doesn't have enough info & the website can remove it?
  • weaklink109
    weaklink109 Posts: 2,831 Member
    You can't remove it because if foods were removed from the database, anyone who had entered that item in their diary would have a blank space instead of info for that item and it would create all kinds of problems.

    What you CAN do is use the edit function to correct that entry. BTW, if you place something in your diary and later someone else edits it, the OLD data will remain in the diary, unless you go to that entry, delete it and pull the info back in.
  • MFPfriend
    MFPfriend Posts: 1,121 Member
    You can't remove it because if foods were removed from the database, anyone who had entered that item in their diary would have a blank space instead of info for that item and it would create all kinds of problems.

    What you CAN do is use the edit function to correct that entry. BTW, if you place something in your diary and later someone else edits it, the OLD data will remain in the diary, unless you go to that entry, delete it and pull the info back in.

    1) Yeah, if the foods were removed from database, they would be removed from diaries, causing bad numbers. And bad numbers = no fun.

    2) *not sure if this is directed toward me or the other poster.
    I edit foods all the time; I'm just saying that it's frustrating when you enter something from the database to your diary, then realize later it's wrong. For example, I entered a Baskin Robbins smoothie- when I went to my diary, I saw I was still under my sugar limit, which I thought was weird. Later, I looked and realized the person had only put the calories in, and not other numbers.
    Also, when you edit info, it stays the same in the database- it only changes for the person who edited, right?
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