Adding food to diary in grams

PeppervS
PeppervS Posts: 4
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Hi, I have signed up for MFP (have been using Calorie King Diary for the past 6 weeks) but am wondering how to add the number of grams to each food eg I want to add a banana that weighed 119 g. The weight of a banana seems to have be decided already as 90g. What am I missing?

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  • rabies
    rabies Posts: 62
    Did you weigh it with skin? Weigh it without
    Still, you can most likely change the unit from 1 serving to 1g, and enter "90".
  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
    There's multiple entries for most things find one that has one gram as an option in the drop down menu then you can add your weight of banana in
  • mimieon
    mimieon Posts: 182 Member
    Just register it as 1.33 banana. 1.33*90 ~ 119.
  • xampx
    xampx Posts: 323 Member
    Yep, a lot of stuff has the 1g option, or you can add it as one your own foods, or a recipe, or you can use a fraction. like 1.23 of a 70g serving

    There are loads of entries for bananas, one of them will have grams
  • mamosh81
    mamosh81 Posts: 409 Member
    search for banana raw and take the one without the star in front thats the original entry from MFP and not from users. Select the 100g option and then adjust 0.9 is 90g 1.19 is 119g
  • anubhavsharma18
    anubhavsharma18 Posts: 63 Member
    Add 1.3 in the quantity instead of 1.
  • PeppervS
    PeppervS Posts: 4
    Weight of banana without skin was 119g. I wasn't able to add the 119g - the weight of a banana seemed to have been pre-determined as 90g. In Calorie King you select 'g' and add the weight in.
  • PeppervS
    PeppervS Posts: 4
    Thank you - will try that.
  • PeppervS
    PeppervS Posts: 4
    Too complicated to do for every food, but thank you for the suggestion.
  • Orient_Charm
    Orient_Charm Posts: 385 Member
    For me,
    I have kitchen scale, when I am at home I weight everything (bread, eggs, rice ) , I know my wife feel boring with me, but this is the best way to have the best accuracy in calories you can......
    Even chicken, when I eat at home, I weight it with bones, then I weight the bones alone to know how much exactly meat I ate......
    You may consider a banana as big or medium, but you can not be sure, may be the system considered more or less calories than what really you got..
  • surreygirl23
    surreygirl23 Posts: 85 Member
    It's really not that complex, once you've found the foods you use listed in grams, they will be in your 'memory' (recent, or most used) and you can easily change the weight according to what you eat.
    I've just had a quick look and there are several bananas listed in grams - 'banana generic without skin' being one of them. If you click on the 'how much' tab, it shows the option of 1g - choose this and then put 119 in the 'servings' box.

    If you really can't be bothered to do this, then you'll have to find the nearest weight - this may work for stuff like vegetables, but for calorie-dense food, you'll run into trouble.
    Far better to do the 'complicated' thing to start with. It doesn't take long, honest!

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