How to permanently delete foods from the database?

chaddarrah83
chaddarrah83 Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Getting Started
I understand how to take a good off for the diary, but I'd like to take some things off the master list. Things that I may have only eaten once in a different state. Is there any way to permanently delete these bothersome items?

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    You can't delete foods from the actual database...if you could then other people couldn't access those foods.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    If you are speaking about when you go to add a food to your log and it's under one of the following tabs this is the result

    Recent - can't delete from the "recent" list but it will eventually not show
    Frequent - You can remove those from that "frequent" list but they will remain if you search the actual database
    My foods - Can't delete as you made changes to the food in the actual database....but you can edit in the foods tab
    Meals - Delete all you want
    Recipes - Delete all you want
  • chaddarrah83
    chaddarrah83 Posts: 3 Member
    I mean my personal list. Every day I go to add a glass of milk the option to add a burrito I ate one time two months ago shows up on my personal list of documented foods.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    chaddarrah83 wrote: »
    I mean my personal list. Every day I go to add a glass of milk the option to add a burrito I ate one time two months ago shows up on my personal list of documented foods.

    I don't see a personal list of foods.

    Recent, frequent, my foods, meals and recipes

    and see above
  • chaddarrah83
    chaddarrah83 Posts: 3 Member
    Recent tab. I got it now. Thank you.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    chaddarrah83 wrote: »
    Recent tab. I got it now. Thank you.

    that means it will disappear eventually...you apparently don't eat a lot of different foods.
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    MFP a few months ago starting rolling out a "hide" capability to the Recent List for the Android app. It is not really a "Delete" - I think it acts a lot like the hide feature of the Frequent List. I am not sure, because I do not have the updated Android app. I would suspect MFP would roll it out to the iOS app eventually, if it has not already been done.

    I would suspect a "hide" feature for the Recent List on the web version would be a lot tougher to code, so I doubt that would be deployed in the near future.
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