members keeping adding the wrong sodium amt

carlosmitchell16
carlosmitchell16 Posts: 7 Member
in Food and Nutrition
:smile: It seems at least once a week when I go to record new food I find a member has added the wrong sodium content. 0.1 grams of sodium is 100 mgs and 0.4 g of sodium on a food label is 400 mgs of sodium. Why is that the members keep placing zero on the sodium section when they add the food... or they place 1 mg for something that should actually be 100 milligrams. Do people not know how to convert grams to milligrams with sodium. this is a constant and pervasive issue on member added food on the fitness pal app.

Sorry I had to rant.

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  • GetSoda
    GetSoda Posts: 1,267 Member
    Pretty much every stat is messed up on a lot of food.
  • farway
    farway Posts: 1,264 Member
    I find the same with the sodium, I keep correcting it, and some use the salt figure where sodium is not stated on packing

    I think the sad truth is a lot of people are not good at maths and just do not understand the difference between milligramme and gramme, or even decimals
  • Debssssssssss
    Debssssssssss Posts: 84 Member
    Pretty much every stat is messed up on a lot of food.


    Yup. I check everything, I'm not too worried over sodium, I know I don't go over very often, but I always check the calories, carbs, protein and fat. I actually wonder if some people enter in values that are false on purpose....
  • farway
    farway Posts: 1,264 Member
    Pretty much every stat is messed up on a lot of food.


    Yup. I check everything, I'm not too worried over sodium, I know I don't go over very often, but I always check the calories, carbs, protein and fat. I actually wonder if some people enter in values that are false on purpose....

    I'm sure some do, but also manufacturers reformulate processed food, either for cost or health reasons, like less sugar, fat etc. So what was true last year is erroneous this year
  • rebeccaisafish
    rebeccaisafish Posts: 87 Member
    I just spent the last few minutes editing entries so that I could log them. Some were almost right but had a typo, but other's I think they just made up half the numbers. Makes me wonder what I've been logging incorrectly all this time because I just haven't checked
  • farway
    farway Posts: 1,264 Member
    I just spent the last few minutes editing entries so that I could log them. Some were almost right but had a typo, but other's I think they just made up half the numbers. Makes me wonder what I've been logging incorrectly all this time because I just haven't checked

    Snap!

    I have just had to edit an entry where yet again someone had entered the salt figure instead of the sodium figure
  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
    Edit it with the correct amount and carry on with your day. Really not worth getting stressed about
  • tranquility17
    tranquility17 Posts: 5 Member
    :smile: It seems at least once a week when I go to record new food I find a member has added the wrong sodium content. 0.1 grams of sodium is 100 mgs and 0.4 g of sodium on a food label is 400 mgs of sodium. Why is that the members keep placing zero on the sodium section when they add the food... or they place 1 mg for something that should actually be 100 milligrams. Do people not know how to convert grams to milligrams with sodium. this is a constant and pervasive issue on member added food on the fitness pal app.

    Sorry I had to rant.

    Well just edit it and move on. Why waste precious energy ranting?

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