PLEASE STOP! (If you don't know the nutritional values, don

Hmm, good point. I only add a food to the database if I have the package with the nutritional info in front of me, but I am not so good at reporting the obviously incorrect listings that I come across. I'll start tagging things more often (and verifying when the info IS correct, for that matter)!

Welcome to OUR world:noway:

I spent several minutes the other day trying to decipher which was the correct version of the food I was adding to my log. In the end, they were all wrong, and I just entered the values from the label.

And you're right, we should all start tagging the incorrect ones as well, I will definitely start doing that!

There was a thread like this a few weeks ago and Mike (MFP creator) actually commented on it and said that cleaning up the food database is one of their top priorities. So hopefully one day SOON it will be a lot better!

I have learned that when I find the correct value for a food that I am looking up, I save it in "My Meals" so I don't have to hunt for it again. What ticks me off is when I correct a particular item, then the next time I try to use it someone has changed it. Grr!!! :mad:

IM WITH YOU ON THIS ONE!!!

I once found grilled chicken...guess how many grams of protein were listed? ZERO?!!? Are you kidding?! ZERO!!

-=grumbles=- :grumble: :noway:

I started adding things like "Summer's (insert food here)" because it wont leg you pick something that "might" be the same...even if it is not. Ive begun using the scanning bar code future on my Android APP to help better track anything store bought since people seem too lazy to put into in correctly...

I am with you, but i was amazed at how different chicken pieces from different shops had such differing values, so it could be that they do know, and there are different values in different varieties

Devil's advocate here. Keep in mind that some recipes have different ingredients. Some pigs are raised differently, which can change the content of the meat. And not all fruits are the same size. I agree that it's like pulling teeth trying to find exactly what you need to log, but let's face it: not all food is the exact same thing every time.

Thank you! I'm new here so I agree. I've found many things that don't match. I've been trying to enter correctly from what's on the labels of the foods I eat.

Oh no, I haven't even thought about the fact that people could be submitting incorrect info! I'll definitely have to keep my eye out for that kind of stuff a little better. You can be sure I'll be tagging things as incorrect if I see them!

...and really, how many different BANANA options does a girl really need?

I AGREEE!!! I never really know which one to pick. There are so many for a med. size banana.

Oh no, I haven't even thought about the fact that people could be submitting incorrect info! I'll definitely have to keep my eye out for that kind of stuff a little better. You can be sure I'll be tagging things as incorrect if I see them!

I didn't know that either!! But I will not add/be adding anything unless I have the nutritional value (from now on)!!
How do you tagg items if their incorrect???

Learning on the Fly - :ohwell:

I am with you, but i was amazed at how different chicken pieces from different shops had such differing values, so it could be that they do know, and there are different values in different varieties

Also its sometimes different between countries, US vs Canada vs UK....etc. I noticed some people will label them (Canada) Fruit Loops, or something, but not everyone does. I thought it was interesting that a big brand would be different from place to place, but the labels are different, that could also be were some of this is coming from.

what urks me is when someone enters only the calories and puts 0 for everything else. lol

Don't forget that the nutrition values vary widely from country to country. I and i know some others are including thr country on the lable, also that items from multipacks differ from the single items, i note that too.

LOL I must have posted same time as you.

I am with you, but i was amazed at how different chicken pieces from different shops had such differing values, so it could be that they do know, and there are different values in different varieties

Also its sometimes different between countries, US vs Canada vs UK....etc. I noticed some people will label them (Canada) Fruit Loops, or something, but not everyone does. I thought it was interesting that a big brand would be different from place to place, but the labels are different, that could also be were some of this is coming from.

what urks me is when someone enters only the calories and puts 0 for everything else. lol

This is true about the different countries..maybe mfp could add 1 more field in at the top of the food form that says "country". JMO.

Go to a store or do some online browsing and look at the nutritional labels for three different honey hams from three different sources and you're likely to get three different results that way too. Yes, something like a chicken breast not havin protein entered is clearly wrong. But don't assume entries are "wrong" just because they're different.

Also keep in kind that companies themselves change nutritional info. Not long ago FiberOne 90 calories chocolate PB bars disappeared from the shelves and reappeared a few weeks later. When the new ones hit shelves again I picked up a box. Compared the info to the old box we still had at home (I buy 'em for the hubby mostly and he'd stockpiled when he saw they were disappearing from shelves) and two or three of the nutritional items had changed. And when I took one to throw in the car when I'd be on the road for awhile, when I went to enter it in MFP, all of the entries were "wrong" because they still had the old info. So I had to create a new entry that matched the new label. No one had entered the info wrong, it just became wrong as soon as the company updated their label.

To sum up, I just wouldn't be so quick to come down on the users of MFP for creating a messy database. There are a lot of factors out there that contribute to multiple and different entries. And I didn't even touch on how labels for the same exact products could be different between the US and other countries due to their food labeling laws. lol