Why is MFP adding calories to certain foods?

Ex: 1 large egg has about 70-75 Calories in it. Why is MFP telling me that 2 fried eggs is 184 calories?!!!

Two eggs are two eggs.

Two fried eggs are two eggs + oil/butter.

You're seriously hanging around this topic just to continue to post non-sense. You must have nothing better to do. I suggest you go work off your aggression on the treadmill.

I'm talking about anh720...

Protip, you can edit you previous posts instead of quoting yourself.

Egging everyone on! :flowerforyou:

5 pages with no gifs. WTH? just WTH?

I use this site to find out the calories of various foods and then create my own custom food on another seperate site.

http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/search?q=eggs

The most frustrating thing I find is that most food is logged in grams or ounces or serves when I just want the calories of a single item ie 1 almond or 1 olive or whatever and the above site lets me do that.

And yes, scrambled eggs or fried eggs are going to contain more calories than raw or boiled eggs due to the yummy delicious oil, butter milk and cream used to cook them.

P.S you might find that raw eggs will have different calories to cooked eggs even if only boiled so you have to be specific unless you don't mind logging more calories than you actually eat which I do.

This is why I use the nutritional info on the label for all my food .. except things like fruit. I just go with the database entry for that .. and pick the one that seems most accurate.

I just make a MyFoods entry .. and don't use the database at all. It works cause I eat the same foods over and over.

I always use the base ingredient and then add other stuff that I've cooked it with separately. E.g. if I add milk to scrambled eggs, I will add that as its own entry. If i add oil, I put it as a separate entry.

I also try to use the figures given by a food board, for e.g. in New zealand a lot of the foods are listed in the "NZ Food tables" which are accurate..so before I log anything I check the database for those.

Because MFP doesnt have the x-ray powers that make it known that you use coconut oil to cook your eggs (in fact if it did, that would be a bit cr@p given that I have never heard of anybody else using coconut oil)

One would assume therefore that the entry assumes using a more normal oil or butter.

I know! How retarded that someone should just add the calories in for oil which everybody uses....

A lot of people use coconut oil thank you...it has healthy fats in it which is why I use it instead of regular butter spray or artificial sprays. The spray adds one calorie. I added it into my food diary of MFP. I add everything that I use.....no need to be rude. This is a support forum.
I'm using very organic/raw alternatives for cooking. Which is why I use coconut oil and olive oil instead of canola oil or butter spread.

No need to be rude? So you are quite happy brand others as retarded but the moment somebody questions your reasoning in a mildly sarcastic way, it is rude?....

Also, I wasn't calling ANYONE retarded. I calling the fact that the calories were over calculated retarded. I didn't know if it was me miscalculating or the program. Also I didn't know the nutritional information uploaded onto the site was uploaded by the users. My use of the word retarded wasn't directed at anyone in particular. I was just expressing my frustration. So, like I stated before, no need for you to be rude.

You are going to fit in very well around here.:flowerforyou:

An egg cooked with oil should be entered as "Egg cooked with [type] Oil" and not just "Egg". So OP has a point to an extent. In those cases I usually just correct the values and/or specify when adding to the database.

Well, the entry the OP was complaining about was for 2 eggs, fried, which had 35 to 45 more calories than 2 raw eggs. Maybe "fried" means something different in other English-speaking countries, but in the U.S. it pretty much means cooked in liquid fat by definition. So the entry is the calories for 2 eggs plus a teaspoon of oil, which hardly seems like an excessive amount of fat to fry two eggs, and it doesn't need to be "corrected."

Nup fried is pretty much fried no matter what English speaking country you come from. But there are different oils and amounts of oils that people use when frying which Imho means that for accuracy's sake you're better off entering the raw ingredient being fried and then adding the oil separately.