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shabaity
shabaity Posts: 792 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Is there a way to tell what a food means or its ingredients from the data base? Cause some how I think my definition of chow mein meat veggies some sauce and the database's definition are a bit different... I didn't even know noodles came in chow mein. Or is what I described chop suey and my local resteraunt just has the wrong name?

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  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    Chow mein is a noodle dish (http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=chow+mein&FORM=HDRSC2) and chop suey is a veggie dish (http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=chopsuey&FORM=HDRSC2).
    The database is all over the place when it comes to accuracy. Sometimes you have to take the best guess.
    If you've made the dish yourself, you can add it to "my recipes" in the "food" tab and come up with a more accurate estimate of nutrition and calorie content.

    Hope this helps a little bit. It can be confusing.
  • Jason7Scott
    Jason7Scott Posts: 33
    Not sure i understand your question? Chow mien does consist of noodles. In my experience, i found chop suey contained more vegetables, skinnier noodles and thicker sauce, where chow mien was effectively stir fried noodles, bean sprouts, spring onion and meat.

    Traditionally, chop suey is served with rice, rather than noodles.
  • shabaity
    shabaity Posts: 792 Member
    Then the local chinese restraunt has the names in the menus labeled wrong lovely. That just made things more difficult guess I'm not getting that tonight the beef and broccoli it is.

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