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kernowboykuwait
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Why TF are all drinks measurements in oz? I want to input 200ml of Pepsi and have to make a right pigs-ear of a calculation to get an approximate amount.
Only one country uses oz for drinks, the rest of the entire civilised world uses ml. The good of the many outweighs the good of the few, so let's stop pandering to one country and put drinks measurements in ml.
Only one country uses oz for drinks, the rest of the entire civilised world uses ml. The good of the many outweighs the good of the few, so let's stop pandering to one country and put drinks measurements in ml.
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I don't understand why the US hasn't switched to the metric system. It irks me to no end that oz and fl oz are very rarely 1:1 ratios (and depend on the density of the food).
At this point, I use the metric system more often than the US one. Almost all documentation for input and output requires the metric system (30mL = 1 CC = 1fl oz; 1tsp = 5mL ... only to be used for food/drink that are liquids at room temp), and I constantly need to think in mL when drawing up my insulin for my pump (mL to insulin unit conversions).0 -
When you choose your pepsi entry from the database, hit the little down arrow next to the measurement (the one I tried has 20oz) then change it to 1 ml and put your servings at 200. I would double check to make sure the calories that pop up are correct for the 200 ml. Sometimes you have to try a couple different database choices to get one that has an option for ml (or grams for solids)0
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Yeah. That's the problem. Having to faff around with choosing 1ml (which isn't always an available choice) and then checking that it gives the correct value for 200ml and if it doesn't then having to do more faffing around.
If I have to check that it gives the correct calorie count then that is the failing - it should already be one of the reasonably to be expected choices.0 -
You can create your own entry to use. I know it gets aggravating but if it's something you have often then you have your own entry that pops up.
I'm in the country that uses ounces for everything but I weigh items (solids) in grams so I do understand the frustration. It drives me nuts lol. And....the liquids here do also have ml and liter, etc listed on the bottles but it gets mostly ignored. It makes no sense.
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AmazonMayan wrote: »You can create your own entry to use. I know it gets aggravating but if it's something you have often then you have your own entry that pops up.
I'm in the country that uses ounces for everything but I weigh items (solids) in grams so I do understand the frustration. It drives me nuts lol. And....the liquids here do also have ml and liter, etc listed on the bottles but it gets mostly ignored. It makes no sense.
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Just put in your own measures from the labels. I use grams, ml, oz, depending what I'm measuring. But then again, I'm old and remember when Canada used the imperial measurements too.
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Whose spacecraft crashed into Mars because they got the units messed up ?0
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I've seen diet coke listed as both metric (mL) and imperial (oz). My way of dealing with mismatched units of measure is to just use Google unit converter. For example, Google is telling me that 20 US fluid ounces (a standard bottle of soda) = 591.471 mL. I agree that the extra step is aggravating, but that's my work around.
As an aside, I am an engineer and I loathe the imperial measurement system. It just makes calculations difficult. Back in school, particularly for calculation heavy subjects like thermodynamics, when I was given a problem using imperial units, I would convert to metric at the beginning, work the problem, and then convert everything back to imperial. I could understand kilowatts and joules, but just could not wrap my head around horsepower and BTUs. I also remember learning the metric system way back in first or second grade, because the US was going to convert to metric. I'm still waiting.0 -
AmazonMayan wrote: »You can create your own entry to use. I know it gets aggravating but if it's something you have often then you have your own entry that pops up.
I'm in the country that uses ounces for everything but I weigh items (solids) in grams so I do understand the frustration. It drives me nuts lol. And....the liquids here do also have ml and liter, etc listed on the bottles but it gets mostly ignored. It makes no sense.
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^this
How do you think so many of those entries got there? Because instead of waiting for someone else to do something, some American did it themselves.
Alternatively, if you don't want to put in this level of effort, divide your ml by 30 which is close enough.
200ml / 30 = 6.67 done.0 -
i don't log my sodas because they are all zero calories0
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LOL ^^^^
Seriously!!!
This is a free site (unless you pay for the Premium). You get what you pay for. I agree with @PiSquared, Google has the answer for everything. And their conversions work pretty good.0 -
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I'm just here because I learned a new word today - "faffing" around.
Carry on.0 -
Go to google. Type in oz to ml, or ml to oz. boom. Alternatively, download the mfp app, it has a barcode scanner, boom. Finally, if you're really into doing "hard math" just figure out the conversion factor from ml to oz, and multiply that same number to whatever amount you need to... It doesn't change.0
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A US fluid ounce is 29.57 ml, an imperial ounce is 28.41 ml.0
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