verified food - oh nooooooo!
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PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »ChrisM8971 wrote: »But a broiler is a whole/half chicken, isn't it? I'm just looking for breast.
It may be, not sure because I am from the UK and don't use that term. However the breast or thigh only entries all start "chicken broilers or fryers" just select the one you want from the list that comes up
I don't think we use that term in the US, either...do we? Anyone? It's the first time heard it, and I wouldn't think it would apply to a certain cut of meat. A breast lobe isn't a broiler or a fryer. It's just a breast.
The term broilers ("mature, young chicken of either sex produced for meat; the terms "broilers," "fryers," and "young chickens" are used interchangeably") is used by the US Department of Agriculture for chickens under 13 weeks old that are used for commercial production. The terms broilers and fryers are also used in the USDA National Nutrient Database.
References:
ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-availability-(per-capita)-data-system/glossary.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broiler
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I just love how some of the entries are supposed to be verified as correct, but they don't match what is on the package or listed by the restaurant on their website, but there's no way to correct the entry or flag it as incorrect.0
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The current MFP-suggested method is for the user to gather all required correct information, such as screen captures, pictures of Nutrition labels, etc. and then open a Case with Customer Support, who will eventually send that information to their database team who may or may not edit the item correctly. Then the Customer Support team will immediately close your Case because they simply forwarded it to the database team. Grrrrrrr.TimothyFish wrote: »I just love how some of the entries are supposed to be verified as correct, but they don't match what is on the package or listed by the restaurant on their website, but there's no way to correct the entry or flag it as incorrect.
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The current MFP-suggested method is for the user to gather all required correct information, such as screen captures, pictures of Nutrition labels, etc. and then open a Case with Customer Support, who will eventually send that information to their database team who may or may not edit the item correctly. Then the Customer Support team will immediately close your Case because they simply forwarded it to the database team. Grrrrrrr.TimothyFish wrote: »I just love how some of the entries are supposed to be verified as correct, but they don't match what is on the package or listed by the restaurant on their website, but there's no way to correct the entry or flag it as incorrect.
I usually just add fractions of a serving until the calories match. Sometimes I log 1.2 pitas or 3.45 baby carrots, etc. I want the food and the calories to match and I don't sweat the macros or micros.0 -
How the hell is "stew-meat" a verified entry?? No wonder newbies wonder why they aren't losing when they use generic entries...
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My favorites are the entries, where people cannot calculate at all and the serving sizes are completely useless, even if the nutrition labels are correct. Like 100kg packages of bread or 10kg protein bars.0
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Why try to fix something that doesn't need fixing? Now the asterixes are gone, and the number of verifications are gone. I have no idea which entries are USDA-ones (well, I can guess), I have no idea if someone verified his own food or if many people agreed. What the... this website has just gone down from usable with some caution to completely useless!
Totally agree.
Well, it did need fixing, as there should have been a way of limiting a search to the non-asterisk entries or getting them first, but this is NOT an improvement.
Also, the 100 gram serving size seems to keep dropping out of the ones where it used to exist (most recently I noticed this with brussels sprouts). Luckily I have most of the ones I need in frequent foods, but it seems a weird thing to happen constantly.
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The database has become a total joke - I don't even know what's what anymore. Another example is that I saw some food item the other day (admittedly, can't remember what), but it was marked green as "Verified", but looking at the nutritional info, it was 50 calories, with 25g of protein. That math doesn't even work.
Considering that 1 gram of protein is 5 calories.0 -
TimothyFish wrote: »I just love how some of the entries are supposed to be verified as correct, but they don't match what is on the package or listed by the restaurant on their website, but there's no way to correct the entry or flag it as incorrect.
That's when I start entering the correct nutritional information into my own food database with my initials in the entry.0 -
That's actually not too bad. But the question is, will we have just the one plate??
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Does it give you options for the size of the plate?
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doylejohnpaul787 wrote: »
Does it give you options for the size of the plate?
If you eat from someone else's plate, does it still count?
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I would pay for premium if the database was clean....0
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PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »ChrisM8971 wrote: »But a broiler is a whole/half chicken, isn't it? I'm just looking for breast.
It may be, not sure because I am from the UK and don't use that term. However the breast or thigh only entries all start "chicken broilers or fryers" just select the one you want from the list that comes up
I don't think we use that term in the US, either...do we? Anyone? It's the first time heard it, and I wouldn't think it would apply to a certain cut of meat. A breast lobe isn't a broiler or a fryer. It's just a breast.
A broiler or fryer is a particular size of chicken--they're the smaller ones, and roasters are larger. I'd imagine broilers are the ones that get cut into parts most often. But if you're weighing the meat raw, I doubt it matters how big the chicken was in the first place.
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I started recently so i guess the database was already crap, but basically i still always check the nutrition facts when they're available as the database is wrong so often.0
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TimothyFish wrote: »I just love how some of the entries are supposed to be verified as correct, but they don't match what is on the package or listed by the restaurant on their website, but there's no way to correct the entry or flag it as incorrect.
Ugh, you're right about not being able to edit. This is not an improvement.
http://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/1859089
What are Verified Foods?
When MyFitnessPal has a high degree of confidence in the accuracy of a food’s nutrition facts, we mark that food as "Verified."
However, just because a food is not Verified, it does not mean that the information is wrong. We just don’t have enough signals to verify it yet. New Verified Foods are being added continuously, so the verified database should grow over time.
Because the data in verified foods is considered extremely reliable, Verified foods are not editable.
With the debut of Verified Foods, we have retired the asterisk (*) previously used to notate user-generated foods on the website.
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