Logging meals

ghowell316
ghowell316 Posts: 1 Member
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When logging your meals, for example a taco salad, do you have to log each topping separate? Or just by typing taco salad does it figure those in?

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  • try2again
    try2again Posts: 3,562 Member
    edited January 2018
    If it's something you made, you should log each ingredient separately, preferably according to weight. If it's something you purchased at a restaurant or pre-packaged, you obviously can't know for sure and have to trust the restaurant or brand info. Logging a random "taco salad" is going to get you random, very inaccurate numbers.
  • jgnickel
    jgnickel Posts: 80 Member
    If you want it to be accurate log each topping separate. So many of the entries in the database are user created that you really don't know what someone else put on their taco salad. If you are eating out some places have nutritional information.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Log each ingredient. You don’t know what is in the database taco salad entries.
  • dinadyna21
    dinadyna21 Posts: 403 Member
    Use the USDA database to search foods before looking them up in MFP database to make sure you're getting an accurate count as well. Some of the entries on MFP are inaccurate.

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