Discrepancies with tracker?

mchughh
mchughh Posts: 6
in Food and Nutrition
Hi all, I just started withf MFP yesterday and I have noticed that there are discrepancies between the MFP calorie/nutritional content vs the package of food products. Flor example Voskos nonfat greek yogurt honey flavor: on the carton cal 120, carbs 17g, sugar 13g. Compared to the MFP search for the item-cal 130, carbs 21g, sugar 16g.
Also how would I compute for example if I used 1 tsp of peanut butter vs the 2 Tbsp portion-I tried to cahnge the quantity but I am tired of having to do the math.

Any help would be appreciated,

Holly

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  • vorgas
    vorgas Posts: 741 Member
    You can always create your own food with the corrected amounts if it bothers you.

    Eventually the math gets pretty easy. For example, you know a tsp is 1/3 a TB. So change the portion size to 1 TB, and enter .33 in the quantity. Done.

    If that's all you ever use, it will be the default next time you select it anyway.
  • mchughh
    mchughh Posts: 6
    Thanks!
  • Krista916
    Krista916 Posts: 258
    If I have the food container, I always scan it with my app.

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