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Zero calories food?

JM3Carvalho
JM3Carvalho Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I just found a fish chips packet and scanned it using mfp.It showed high protein but zero calories

http://imgur.com/U8cpFuI

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  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    It's obviously an incorrect entry. There are many of them scattered through the database.

    Entries like these really do make me wonder about some people... :anguished:
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,748 Member
    You will find that many entries in MFP are incorrect, as they are user entered. Given that protein is 4 calories per gram, it is a physical impossibility to have a food that contains protein but does not contain calories, but for whatever reason, the MFP database allows people to enter those foods and share them publicly anyway.

    I double check all my entries, even the green ticked ones.
  • SammiG01
    SammiG01 Posts: 105 Member
    It also show 8002 grams of protein in one serving?
  • chrislee1628
    chrislee1628 Posts: 305 Member
    I've corrected many, it'll bring up the right product, but the rest can be completely wrong

    It is like they read the wrong column, inputting say the 30/100g instead of the whole packet etc
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