Warning! Errors in food data base!

I checked, and it lists butterball turkey pastrami one serving as two ounces for 80 calories. What you have mentioned, .25 lb, is a quarter pound which is 4 ounces.

I checked, and it lists butterball turkey pastrami one serving as two ounces for 80 calories. What you have mentioned, .25 lb, is a quarter pound which is 4 ounces.

That is correct! I corrected the database about an hour ago to read 2 oz instead of .25 lbs so the next person wouldn't make the same mistake I've been making for a month! The listing in grams for the same product is correct also. Cheers!

Oh okay, you hadn't mentioned that you had corrected it.

I'm finding a TON of wrong values I have just changed Kraft Crunchy Peanut Butter, Six Star Whey Protein Cookies and Cream, and Activia yogurt. Its a bit frustrating having to double check everything. Im wondering if some products are different in different regions?

I think that some are. I see a lot of items duplicated and when I check what the difference is, often they are just duplicates, but other times I see that some have put (Canada) after them and the values are different. Which is good as I am in Canada! And others I see look like duplicates but there is a difference in serving size or difference in calories. I am not too quick to change something because there are differences in package sizes and stuff too. You can always add your version of the product, and just keep it in your My Foods and not share it with the database (thereby not clogging it up with yet another version!) Since people all over the world use this site there are going to be lots of variations. MFP also doesn't clean up the database, so it's really user beware, and add your own to your My Foods.

Actually with most of the (Canada) designated items, the difference is just a serving size based in metric measurements instead of Imperial. On US packaging, standard serving sizes are usually in whole ounces (for example), with a non-round number given in grams (usually as multiples of 28 but sometimes 30 LOL!). On Canadian packaging, I've noticed the standard serving sizes are in rounder numbers of grams.

That being said, I do think some products do vary by region (especially country), more because of different regulations than differing regional tastes.

I always check before I add items to my diary. Products change and people make mistakes.

I get frustrated when I scan an item and the bar code is wrong. I don't get that. Manufacturer error?

I get frustrated when I scan an item and the bar code is wrong. I don't get that. Manufacturer error?

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YOu aren't warning people anything we don't already know about items in the food database, you shouldn't just go by what the MFP database sais anyway, 98% is user inputted foods which are incorrect or may vary greatly between producers, countries and alot is listed in weird measurements that dont tell you anything like 1 Slice

Yeah ok so what is the users definition of 1 slice? Food should be input in there standard weights ie GRAMS, OZ, lbs for solids and Cups/ml's for powdered or liquids not Slices, 1/8 of a pie, 1 dish, 1 serving of a homemade item.. and above all Nutrient levels, even if it's a rough guide is better then something input with just Calories and nothing else.

If the item has a * next to it, it was input by a user not MFP staff and no way in hell can we expect the staff to filter through the database and take out any invalid entries, that would take years.

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I've only been here a short while and I've noticed errors but usually, there are multiple entires for the same food so I quickly grab the item, check it against the right entry and add it to my meal; next time, the right one is there ready and waiting to be added.