Chicken breasts: What good is the database if...

dondimitri
dondimitri Posts: 245 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I end up having to go to the USDA website to find out how many calories are truly in 1 oz. of boneless, skinless chicken breast?

There has been a lot of talk about the "database sprawl".

Here is a good example:

I bought a frozen generic chicken breast and made a chicken salad for dinner.

Then I went to MFPs handy dandy database to look up the following search string "chicken breast skinless boneless".

I found the following calorie values listed for 1 oz.: 30,30,43,30,46,94,28,33, etc. on and on.... (Some of the entries didn't list a 1 oz. portion so I calculated what a 1 oz. portion would be). And there were many more entries I didn't even bother with.

Not having a clue which one was accurate I went to the USDA website where they say: 31

So that is what I used.

But if I have to do that to get a value that I can trust then what good is the MFP database?

I imagine the same problem exists with most other generic food types.

Replies

  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    Sometimes if you search "chicken breast usda" it might already be in there. Same with other stuff like fruits and veggies. If unsure you can double check it with usda, and confirm it in the database to help others.
  • RaggedyPond
    RaggedyPond Posts: 1,487 Member
    Mine list the calories on the package. 4 oz is 110 I think it was.
  • wjewell
    wjewell Posts: 282 Member
    Nothing is perfect... if 4 or 5 calories on each entry is going to get to you that badly, you may want to start putting your food in manually and using your own entries.
  • seabee78
    seabee78 Posts: 126 Member
    I don't get why users enter data into the db only to be incomplete or incorrect. I mean, why bother putting it in?

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