Worst database entries?
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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%.9
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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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I found a butter entry once for 1cal/gram. Noooooo . . . . . also, I wish!1
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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!)12
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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...
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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.
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SkimpyMrsCarter wrote: »
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.2 -
SkimpyMrsCarter wrote: »
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.2 -
SkimpyMrsCarter wrote: »
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
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SkimpyMrsCarter wrote: »
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.3
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