Angry! Your messing up the food database!!
Fat2FitChick
Posts: 451 Member
OK I am so so so sick of seeing food entered into the database that are just completely wrong!! I am sick of people trying to cheat by entering the wrong calories for a particular food just so you can be under your calories for the day. I have seen some foods that have all the nutritional info just wrong like it was just made up.
Then I'll search for a food and I'll have to search through 50 of the same food to find the one that is actually correct based of the nutritional label.
People please stop adding your own versions of food to the database, it is messing people up badly, especially new people that may not know that the info is wrong.
I have corrected so many that it is hard to even put a number on it. When I see wrong info put in for a food, I will be correcting it and adding a (corrected) to the end of the food name.
Uuuugh, I am so sick of it!
Ok rant is over now.
Then I'll search for a food and I'll have to search through 50 of the same food to find the one that is actually correct based of the nutritional label.
People please stop adding your own versions of food to the database, it is messing people up badly, especially new people that may not know that the info is wrong.
I have corrected so many that it is hard to even put a number on it. When I see wrong info put in for a food, I will be correcting it and adding a (corrected) to the end of the food name.
Uuuugh, I am so sick of it!
Ok rant is over now.
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DITTO! I so AGREE!!! It's aggravating!0
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I agree! I posted something like this the other day! it's irritating0
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Where's the LIKE button?
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I agree!!!0
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Be careful though, I've noticed lots of food that's different in Canada than it is in the US...there should be some sort of management system...that's why I always confirm the entry if I find a good one.0
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It is annoying! I'm like "where did you get that number from?". I'm not sure how many I've corrected.0
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OMG 100% agreed! I fixed the entry for my Izze drink today. But when people do that, they are only cheating themselves. The database isn't watching it's weight....0
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I sooooo agree with you!!! It is very frustrating sifting through all the bad ones to get to the one with the right information!!! :mad:0
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DB definatly needs a good cleaning. Is there a way to sort by # of confirmations or whether it was add by an MFP member?0
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ha ha you have your work cut out for you......and the "edits" will only show to you.....just so you know....those other entries will not go away. You'll just be adding even more entries. You may want to save your energy.
Anything you edit will show in the list wihout an asterisk. ( * ) It makes it a little easier to find when you are scrolling.....0 -
This would take so much more time, but they need to just wipe out the user entries and start over. I don't know how many times I've been sabotaged by my own people, relying on false information to make decisions for the rest of my day regarding calories. How absurd!0
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There should be a dig up or dig down feature on items and items that get dug down will be deleted or moved further to the bottom of the list .0
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OK I am so so so sick of seeing food entered into the database that are just completely wrong!! I am sick of people trying to cheat by entering the wrong calories for a particular food just so you can be under your calories for the day. I have seen some foods that have all the nutritional info just wrong like it was just made up.
Then I'll search for a food and I'll have to search through 50 of the same food to find the one that is actually correct based of the nutritional label.
People please stop adding your own versions of food to the database, it is messing people up badly, especially new people that may not know that the info is wrong.
I have corrected so many that it is hard to even put a number on it. When I see wrong info put in for a food, I will be correcting it and adding a (corrected) to the end of the food name.
Uuuugh, I am so sick of it!
Ok rant is over now.
I have had to do that daily! It drives me crazy!!0 -
The 'edits' only show to yourself...0
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I agree. It's really frustrating--I never know whether my totals are accurate or not. I mean I could be going over by 100's of cals and unless my food came with a nutrition label, I'd have no idea...
Maybe someone could go through the database and delete foods that cause more harm than good ('sauteed chicken'--really? sauteed how? in what? how much? etc). it would make the website WAY easier to navigate and much more useful to those of us who are trying to do a good and accurate job of monitoring.0 -
DB definatly needs a good cleaning. Is there a way to sort by # of confirmations or whether it was add by an MFP member?
I've asked for this.... No response from the developers0 -
Yes I confirm good ones as well, but the problem is also that there are confirmation on even the wrong ones, LOL like the cheaters all look for that one that is wrong on purpose or something. I found one today with 11 confirmations and the info was dead wrong.0
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Where's the LIKE button?
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I don't seem to run into this problem very often. But don't get so angry. Some are mistakes and some probably were correct when they were first entered. The nutrition labeling on packaged foods does change from time to time, new recipes, changes in serving sizes, etc.. You will just have to verify everything the first time. After that you should be good to go.0
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I totally agree, it is frustrating. Why can't they just enter it right?0
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