Commonly used foods - remove from list

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Scotfree5
Scotfree5 Posts: 1 Member
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How do you remove foods from your list if you no longer eat them?

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  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
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    You don't. The newer foods will appear at the top of your list. the older ones will be pushed further and further to the bottom until they eventually drop off. The maximum list is four pages long.
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
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    A user currently can not delete items from the Recent list.

    The Recent list is just a plain, old database query that is regenerated each time the Food Diary is searched and displays up to the last 100 items a user added to their Food Diary, either by individual Meal, or by All Meals, depending on the display option. Those food items will eventually drop off of the Recent list display on the web version after a user logs more items. The Recent list query is not stored anywhere (it is regenerated every time the Food Diary is searched or the page is refreshed); that is why in the current design a user can not delete anything from it. On the mobile apps, the Recent list query can pull and display (using predictive text) more items from the mobile app Diary than what is displayed on the Web version.

    The Frequent list displays up to 25 items from the Food Diary based on an algorithm that the user can not change, but a user can in effect hide particular food items from displaying in the Frequent list.

    If desired, a user can change the default display to the Frequent list, from which the user can hide previous food items that were added to the Food Diary and which the user does not want to see displayed on a list of foods. On the Web version, navigate to FOOD > Settings and change Default Add Food View to Frequent. On the mobile apps, navigate to Settings > Diary Settings and set Default Search Tabs to Frequent.

    The only way to have the Recent list query not display those items that have been added to the Food Diary is for a user to go back to the Food Diary and delete all instances of those unwanted items from every day that the item has been logged. A user can go back to individual days in the Food Diary and delete the food items one by one on the web version or by multi-delete on the mobile apps. However, once those unwanted entries from the Food Diary have been deleted, the Calories and other nutrients will not be correct for those previous days and any Reports, if viewed, will not be correct.

    ​Please see these articles, and search for other helpful articles, on the MFP Help/FAQ pages...

    myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/374439-how-do-i-delete-an-entry-from-my-food-diary-

    myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/152746-can-i-remove-a-food-from-my-%22most-used%22-or-%22frequent%22-list-what-if-i-change-my-mind-
  • Artglassguy
    Artglassguy Posts: 12 Member
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    it would be helpful to be able to unclutter my list from time to time by removing foods from my list. this is not asking to change MFPs database, it is simply asking for control over what comes up in "my foods" on my page. as a premium member it doesn't seem like too much to ask.

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