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    LOL - beware some of the MFP nutrition info!

    Posts: 40 Member
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    i feel like I've been trolled! My sugar intake was off the charts after breakfast. I double-checked and the nutrition info for 100g of "fresh mango" showed 115g of sugar and the same for carbs. Pretty sure that's impossible. It made me laugh but it also made me not trust anything without the green tick. The problem is that the green tick mango was measured in cup size, while the "fresh mango" was measured by weight, so that's the one I went for. Does anyone else have any warnings about which seemingly innocent foods are to be avoided while logging?

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    • Posts: 40 Member
      By the way, half a cup of mango has 11g of sugar, not 115. Perhaps the decimal point was just in the wrong place?
    • Posts: 4 Member
      Yes, I couldn't find the type of bacon I use since it is not a "brand" but I purchase straight from the butcher so NOTHING is put in it. They tell me it is 650 mg of sodium. Well, no sodium is added to it since I get it straight from the butcher and it only has some natural sodium so I know it is wrong but I can't change it.

    • Posts: 10,137 Member
      ElizabethHanson1 wrote: »
      Yes, I couldn't find the type of bacon I use since it is not a "brand" but I purchase straight from the butcher so NOTHING is put in it. They tell me it is 650 mg of sodium. Well, no sodium is added to it since I get it straight from the butcher and it only has some natural sodium so I know it is wrong but I can't change it.

      You mean it hasn't been cured? Search for uncured bacon. There are a number of entries, and they seem to range from 170 to 270 mg sodium for a two-slice serving. Or, if the butcher is actually cutting it himself, you could ask your butcher what part of the pig he's getting the bacon from, and look for a USDA entry for "pork, fresh, belly, raw" or "pork, fresh, backfat, raw."
    • Posts: 3,077 Member
      They're all generated by users, so use with caution. Even the " verified" entries have known to have errors.
    • Posts: 269 Member
      I couldn't figure out why my recipe I built was seemingly high in calories. Finally realized it said there was 1009 calories in 4 garlic cloves
    • Posts: 18,878 Member
      ElizabethHanson1 wrote: »
      Yes, I couldn't find the type of bacon I use since it is not a "brand" but I purchase straight from the butcher so NOTHING is put in it. They tell me it is 650 mg of sodium. Well, no sodium is added to it since I get it straight from the butcher and it only has some natural sodium so I know it is wrong but I can't change it.

      Is it cured? Bacon is usually cured (that's why it is bacon and not pork) and curing uses salt.
    • Posts: 40 Member
      vanilla_dip wrote: »
      I couldn't figure out why my recipe I built was seemingly high in calories. Finally realized it said there was 1009 calories in 4 garlic cloves

      Ha! Oh yes that one got me once too!
    • Posts: 10,321 Member
      ElizabethHanson1 wrote: »
      Yes, I couldn't find the type of bacon I use since it is not a "brand" but I purchase straight from the butcher so NOTHING is put in it. They tell me it is 650 mg of sodium. Well, no sodium is added to it since I get it straight from the butcher and it only has some natural sodium so I know it is wrong but I can't change it.

      So it was pork, not bacon...
    • Posts: 10,321 Member
      OP, for whole foods I usually type USDA with the search. It will usually bring up accurate entries.
    • Posts: 1,776 Member
      vanilla_dip wrote: »
      I couldn't figure out why my recipe I built was seemingly high in calories. Finally realized it said there was 1009 calories in 4 garlic cloves

      This explains why there were so many fat people on The Sopranos
    • Posts: 23 Member
      I tried to add cauliflower to a recipe today. It had two choices for a 1 cup serving size, one was 75 cals while the other was 75000. This was on the same food item btw really funky.
    • Posts: 1,710 Member
      I loved the day I entered a "pat" of butter and then looked and I was 16,000 calories over my goal.
    • Posts: 213 Member
      I can't remember what it was, but I logged something the other day that came up as 20,000 calories. LOL!
    • Posts: 40 Member
      Hornsby wrote: »
      OP, for whole foods I usually type USDA with the search. It will usually bring up accurate entries.

      Thanks - good advice. Will do that from now on.
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