This CANNOT be right?! Recipes in my food on mfp

amandajpiper
amandajpiper Posts: 22 Member
edited November 29 in Food and Nutrition
I made the kids chocolate truffles for their class parties. I imported ever ingredient used on mfp, entered 90 in number of servings (because I made 90 little truffles) and it spit out a grand total of 7 calories per truffle. That cannot be right! They're small, yes. But only 7 calories? I'm doubting the accuracy of this feature :/

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  • amandajpiper
    amandajpiper Posts: 22 Member
    For the record, it was a very simple truffle using skim milk, butter, flour, (mixed those to make a heavy cream) 2 bags semi sweet chocolate chips and 1.5 tsp vanilla. Nothing fancy.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    Based on that recipe, you must have used an inaccurate ingredient entry in the database in your recipe.

    90 - 7 calorie truffles means the whole batch was 630 calories.

    A bag of chocolate chips comes in at around 1600 calories. You used two, so I'd check that entry for sure.
  • amandajpiper
    amandajpiper Posts: 22 Member
    juggernaut1974 wrote: »
    Based on that recipe, you must have used an inaccurate ingredient entry in the database in your recipe.

    90 - 7 calorie truffles means the whole batch was 630 calories.

    A bag of chocolate chips comes in at around 1600 calories. You used two, so I'd check that entry for sure.

    You're right. I looked it over and instead of 600 grams choc chips, it's coming up as 2 tbsp. weird. I'm on the mobile app so that may be why. Thanks
  • k80flec
    k80flec Posts: 1,623 Member
    Lots of people are reporting problems with imported recipes so it's crucial to check the details.

    I tend to scan the bar code ( and even that needs checking - salt coming up as brown sauce LOL) and use that detail rather than the imported detail.
  • JackieMarie1989jgw
    JackieMarie1989jgw Posts: 230 Member
    Definitely check the details. When you match the ingrrdients, check each ingredient's calorie count to see if it seems accurate. I once had the recipe importer tell me that my recipe was 7,000 calories per serving. I looked and realized that for some reason, it was saying minced garlic was thousands of calories (???) I have also had it give me low counts, and usually it's like you said, it is giving you very low amounts of your ingredients.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    When you import a recipe you have to check each ingredient carefully ..it never matches product or weigth properly

    I just use it as a basis for building a recipe and each entry I will search for alternative ...check what comes up and log by weight

    User error rather than tech glitch in this case I think
  • Queenmunchy
    Queenmunchy Posts: 3,380 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    When you import a recipe you have to check each ingredient carefully ..it never matches product or weigth properly

    I just use it as a basis for building a recipe and each entry I will search for alternative ...check what comes up and log by weight

    User error rather than tech glitch in this case I think

    This.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Yeah, check all the ingredients to make sure it is the right thing and amounts.
  • Queenmunchy
    Queenmunchy Posts: 3,380 Member
    I know a lot of people avoid the importer because of it, but it's exactly like typing it in manually except you don't have to type it. They both come out with odd matches that you have to double check.
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