Worst database entries?

try2again · July 2017

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.

stephanne13 · July 2017

One of my favorite brand of eggs (before I bought from my farm lady) is listed as having 25g of protein. Pooptacular!

puzzledstill · July 2017

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.

nutmegoreo · July 2017

MsChucktowski wrote: »

nutmegoreo wrote: »

There are entries for human flesh

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.

kristikitter · July 2017

Apparently human flesh is a very good keto food.

I have no experience in this field, of course.

amusedmonkey · July 2017

I need these eggs.

But not this garlic

Francl27 · July 2017

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.

newheavensearth · July 2017

Interesting entries:

Unicorn tears
Air
Scale weight of one body

Too much crowdsourcing... way too much. Although the entries for Love are cute.

phoenixx866 · July 2017

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%.

geneticsteacher · July 2017

I used the import function on the recipe builder and got this: 2 c. flour = 70 calories (should have been 800 cal). I wish.

DamieBird · July 2017

I found a butter entry once for 1cal/gram. Noooooo . . . . . also, I wish!

maryjaquiss · July 2017

DamieBird wrote: »

I found a butter entry once for 1cal/gram. Noooooo . . . . . also, I wish!

At the other end of the scale, there is also a verified butter entry (the top entry when I search) for 717 calories/gram (and 81g of fat per gram

) ...

French_Peasant · July 2017

Has no one else ever created a really stupid entry? I do have to confess to a particularly bad entry, way back when I first started and was still very confused: Frosted Mini Wheats, Full Bowl. If anyone really wants to use it, it is actually two servings of Wheats plus a cup of milk. I have tried to go back and delete or edit it, but don't see a way to (normally I can edit other people's recipes under the nutrition tab), so it lives on like a sad ghost, haunting me (although it IS pretty darn handy to log!)

kmsoucy457 · July 2017

nutmegoreo wrote: »

There was a verified garlic clove for 10,000 calories.

I have fallen victim to this garlic clove! Was matching ingredients for a manual-add recipe and figured out something was wrong when it calculated out to about 24,000,000 calories for some stir-fried veggies...

jeanstudies · July 2017

Ahahaha, these are great! Especially the chicken "beast" (probably would be very large though....). I read about another item "Tears of my Enemies" on another post. Zero calories, but I'm guessing the sodium is pretty high on that one.

SkimpyMrsCarter · July 2017

Noel_57 wrote: »

Mutant chicken beasts?

This is the one im having the most trouble with...how many calories is 4oz chicken breast????

taziarj · July 2017

SkimpyMrsCarter wrote: »

Noel_57 wrote: »

Mutant chicken beasts?

This is the one im having the most trouble with...how many calories is 4oz chicken breast????

It all depends. Some processors brine their frozen chicken breasts in a salt water solution, so it will have a lower calorie count per ounce since it has more water than fresh chicken breasts from the meat case.

try2again · July 2017

SkimpyMrsCarter wrote: »

Noel_57 wrote: »

Mutant chicken beasts?

This is the one im having the most trouble with...how many calories is 4oz chicken breast????

I had boneless, skinless grilled chicken breast tonight. I searched "USDA chicken breast boneless skinless grilled" and got a value of 43 calories an ounce. I noticed the packaging said 4 oz=120 calories, but that was for raw and I don't weigh out raw chicken breast unless it's going in a recipe raw. USDA entries will generally be the most reliable with meat & fresh produce.

kshama2001 · July 2017

SkimpyMrsCarter wrote: »

Noel_57 wrote: »

Mutant chicken beasts?

This is the one im having the most trouble with...how many calories is 4oz chicken breast????

Raw? If cooked, how? With or without skin?

Your best bet is to find what you want in the USDA database and plug that exact syntax into the MFP database.

https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list?qlookup=&qt=&manu=&SYNCHRONIZER_URI=/ndb/search/list&SYNCHRONIZER_TOKEN=7f6672de-2cc1-4708-be92-24dafc9aec95&ds=Standard+Reference

newheavensearth · July 2017

try2again wrote: »

SkimpyMrsCarter wrote: »

Noel_57 wrote: »

Mutant chicken beasts?

This is the one im having the most trouble with...how many calories is 4oz chicken breast????

I had boneless, skinless grilled chicken breast tonight. I searched "USDA chicken breast boneless skinless grilled" and got a value of 43 calories an ounce. I noticed the packaging said 4 oz=120 calories, but that was for raw and I don't weigh out raw chicken breast unless it's going in a recipe raw. USDA entries will generally be the most reliable with meat & fresh produce.

You asked me this before about a cut of chicken I used. It was a premeasured cut of chicken breast that was 4 oz raw with brine. So it would have less than 43 calories per ounce because part of the weight was water. So 120 calories might make sense if you account for 3 oz meat and 1 oz water.

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