Cannot find unstarred banana entry anymore?

Use one with a star.

I just find one by typing in usda and then go back and make sure it's correct by looking at the usda website. So far, not had a issue.

I have sent up the red flag about two of the non-asterisked items: "Garlic - Raw" and "Bananas - Raw" and Olivia has posted that they are working to restore those. In the interim, I have placed the entries in my public Food Diary Lunch for today and the next few days. You can use the Quick Tools to copy those items to your Food Diary.

there is a chrome app you can use that lets you chose to look at only non user submitted entries and for only ones with confirmations. i also use the one that gives me a nutritional pie graph at the end of my diary just like you can use on the phone app.

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OP, yes, it's gone. I don't know what they do with the database honestly. Just use a usda entry.

RIP non-asterisked banana entry. You are sincerely missed.

At some point we lost onions, olive oil and other things too... I don't get it...

Who cares if they have an asterisk or not? I find one and check the confirmations. If there are few confirmations I go on to the next one and if there are 5 or more I use it. If I have a little time, I will check the info against the USDA database and, if it is correct, will confirm it myself and use it. Life's too short to get all up in arms about a little star when it really doesn't make a difference.

On the other hand, the database really needs cleaning up. They need to import the entire USDA database, keep brand name entries, and dump all of the duplicates.

You say "life's too short," but that's just why so many people bemoan the loss of the dependable no-star entries (and the difficulty of finding them even when they are there), because they saved so much time.

Life's too short to spend it having to check info against the USDA database for 15 or more items a day, depending on how much I'm cooking from scratch that day and how recently I've used that particular item. (If it's not still in my recent foods, I have to check entries--and usually it means checking at least three or four entries to find one that's right--again because there's no way to tell which entry you used last time, unless you edit one just for the sake of making it one of "your" foods so it will show up at the top of the search list next time.) Plus, for accuracy in logging I like to use entries for whole foods that are in grams, and so many of the user-entered foods are for things like "1 cup, chopped" or, worse, "1 bowl" or "1 plate" or "1 serving."

Foods have disappeared from "my frequent foods" as well. "Coffee, brewed from grounds" (I was logging it for the potassium) had been my number one most frequent food overall and for most meals for more than a year, and it just disappeared from the list entirely one day late last fall. Then the same thing happened with "oil, olive."

OP, it won't help you since you deleted your account, but for others, one thing you can do to find entries that have disappeared from the database is go to "full reports" (the link is below the water consumption and food notes on your food diary page, if you're using the website) and set the dates to search back for a couple of months, or however long ago it was when you used it last. Then when you know what date it was, you can go to that date in your diary and use quick tools to copy the meal (which then means you have to delete any other food in that meal that you're not eating today, but I find this sometimes is a way to address foods that disappear from the database).

Sometimes, if I have time when I get home from the grocery store or farmer's market, or when I'm planning meals, I'll look up entries for anything I think I won't find under my "recent" and "frequent" tabs, add them to the next day, and then keep copying them to the following day each evening until I actually use them.

It's one thing if a feature never existed, but it really pisses me off when they break stuff that used to work. They fix a lot of issues once they are reported and given enough time. But others, not so much

C'mon, MFP, let us eat bananas!

the chrome extension makes it really easy to weed out user contributed items and ones with no confirmations. wouldnt help on the phone app but its something at least.