Accuracy of the "check mark"

I would trust the website of the restaurant providing the food over an MFP database entry. What is in the dish? Unless it's made with three or four eggs, or is a huge pile of shrimp, 1200 mg cholesterol seems excessive (yes, meat and dairy have cholesterol, but not that much in a single serving of food, even a restaurant portion.

blopmiyers wrote: »

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

I would trust the website of the restaurant providing the food over an MFP database entry. What is in the dish? Unless it's made with three or four eggs, or is a huge pile of shrimp, 1200 mg cholesterol seems excessive (yes, meat and dairy have cholesterol, but not that much in a single serving of food, even a restaurant portion.

It's from Boston pizza, the dish is Steak and vegetables.

OK, so you're talking around 250 mg cholesterol from a pound of boneless steak, and no cholesterol from the veggies. If they dump a couple of tablespoons of butter on top, it gets you up to 300 mg cholesterol. So, without knowing the amount of steak and how they cook it (that, is if they use butter), I'd say the 200 mg that the restaurant website reports is perfectly reasonable and the 1200 mg in the MFP database entry is completely absurd, which is about par for the course for the checked entries.

The checked entries are one of many bad changes MFP has implemented since I started here three years ago. I'd say pretty much everything about the site is worse than when I started. I just haven't seen anything better, sadly. And I've got all three years of logged information here, which does raise the "costs" of switching to something else.