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Worst database entries?
try2again
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I was complaining today about some terrible database entries I had to sort through, and it made me think this might be a fun (and somewhat educational) idea for a thread. What database entries have you found that were the most egregious?
A personal favorite of mine:
Breast Original - Fried Chicken
Kfc Chicken - Breast Original, 0.75 CUP, 160 calories
At least they measured it??
A personal favorite of mine:
Breast Original - Fried Chicken
Kfc Chicken - Breast Original, 0.75 CUP, 160 calories
At least they measured it??
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Oh gosh, I've seen some humdingers, but I can't call them to mind right now. If I remember any, I'll come back.2
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There's a VERIFIED entry for "Chinese Buffet - 1 plate" for 1000 calories.
Wouldn't be so bad but verified????27 -
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Alatariel75 wrote: »There's a VERIFIED entry for "Chinese Buffet - 1 plate" for 1000 calories.
Wouldn't be so bad but verified????
What?? You can fill up your plate for only 1000 calories? If only I had known that this week!
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I'll take general crap for 1000, Alex.
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I believe there's an entry for "Superbowl: One bellyfull 2,000 calories"35
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Verified entries mean nothing. Anybody can click the verify button.7
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Did someone actually eat this? 22g of protien, it may be the new superfood!
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I guess I should have been more specific... I was thinking "worst" in terms of ridiculously low calorie counts for the item.1
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I guess I should have been more specific... I was thinking "worst" in terms of ridiculously low calorie counts for the item.
There was a verified garlic clove for 10,000 calories. Still not what you were looking for. The database is pretty interesting. There are entries for human flesh, souls, and sperm. And I don't know how many entries for "1 piece" of cake. How big is that piece? What type of cake? Who knows. Chock full of stuff that is pretty useless. Cleaning it up would make a big difference.29 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »I guess I should have been more specific... I was thinking "worst" in terms of ridiculously low calorie counts for the item.
There was a verified garlic clove for 10,000 calories. Still not what you were looking for. The database is pretty interesting. There are entries for human flesh, souls, and sperm. And I don't know how many entries for "1 piece" of cake. How big is that piece? What type of cake? Who knows. Chock full of stuff that is pretty useless. Cleaning it up would make a big difference.
I have often wondered why people take the time to make an actual database entry for stuff like that where they are clearly just guessing... why not just do a quick add? (I mean for the cake, not the human flesh. ) 12 -
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When I tried to help someone learn to log their food here they couldn't understand that to be accurate they had to weigh, measure, and log each food item separately. So they tried to beat the system by logging a Mc Donalds two cheeseburger extra value meal ( at least 1000 plus soda) as a generic "burger and fries" entry for only a few hundred calories.15
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newheavensearth wrote: »When I tried to help someone learn to log their food here they couldn't understand that to be accurate they had to weigh, measure, and log each food item separately. So they tried to beat the system by logging a Mc Donalds two cheeseburger extra value meal ( at least 1000 plus soda) as a generic "burger and fries" entry for only a few hundred calories.
No doubt one of the people who "logs everything" but still can't lose weight 29 -
I was creating a waffle recipe today and my matched 2 cups of flour was listed at 70 calories. Must remember to always type in all purpose flour when creating recipes.6
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No doubt one of the people who "logs everything" but still can't lose weight
I see that as one of the biggest problem, that some entries are so redundant but vastly different in calories/macros that you are able to pick what fits you best. I hate when I try to find a vegetable entry that has fiber logged only to see that that's the one which does not match the calories of most of the other options. I would sometimes love to be able to merge entries. But then set up another "this is what I believe is true" one?0 -
Here's one of the ones I came across today while trying to log pizza:
Large Pan Pizza With Ham Only
Pizza Hut, 1 slice, 165 calories
I don't think Pizza Hut's water is under 200 calories.23 -
One of my favorite brand of eggs (before I bought from my farm lady) is listed as having 25g of protein. Pooptacular!4
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What amuses me most is that when I mistype a word in the search it just about always finds a misspelt item already logged.
I do agree with previous comments that some sort of clean up of obviously totally misleading items would help.
I like cake. It's so tempting to pick the '1 slice 100 calories' version when you know yours is of the '1 huge slice with extra everything1000 calories ' variety.13 -
MsChucktowski wrote: »
See, now that's obviously incorrect. Not that I've tried it, but I'm certain human flesh has more calories than that. Otherwise it would be the (nearly) perfect diet food.14 -
Apparently human flesh is a very good keto food.
I have no experience in this field, of course.
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I need these eggs.
But not this garlic
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I don't have a specific example but yeah, a lot of people are really in denial on this site.
I like all the 'turkey leg' entries at 200-300 calories, when Disney or fair turkey legs are actually in the 1200 calorie range... Heck I just saw an entry for 'one drumstick (2oz) 138 calories'. LOLNO.3 -
Interesting entries:
Unicorn tears
Air
Scale weight of one body
Too much crowdsourcing... way too much. Although the entries for Love are cute.6 -
I'm a huge fan of scanning the barcode on prepacked foods and logging them. I scanned something a few months ago (a yogurt) that was off by 50%.
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I used the import function on the recipe builder and got this: 2 c. flour = 70 calories (should have been 800 cal). I wish.3
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