Serving size meaning?

hvs2017
hvs2017 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Can someone explain what the th in the serving size means??? Serving size 0.2 th

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited May 2018
    Where is this?

    ETA, googling, I think it's a mashup of "one fifth" and "0.2" - 1/5 of the whole package. If it's on the label, it's bad form, if it's not, read and follow the label.
  • hvs2017
    hvs2017 Posts: 4 Member
    So I made a keto recipe from Casey Trenum and I was trying to enter it in and that's what it come up as I'll post a picture
  • hvs2017
    hvs2017 Posts: 4 Member
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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,619 Member
    That is the percentage of the recipe...you had 20% or one twentieth of the recipe.
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    edited May 2018
    You had 1/5th of the recipe. Another way to show that is with a decimal of 0.2, which is 20%, which is the same as 1/5th. MFP should have left the "th" off since it showed the decimal rather than the fraction.

    ETA: Did you put 1/5th in as the serving size when you made the recipe? It says one serving on that screenshot.
  • LiftHeavyThings27105
    LiftHeavyThings27105 Posts: 2,086 Member
    A "serving size" is determined on the label of each food item | meal.

    For example, with the Harris Teeter (aka, Kroger for us folks here in Winston-Salem, NC) Brown Rice one serving size is 1/2 cup (43g dry rice). There are also roughly nine servings per box.

    Additionally, each serving has 150 calories with 4g Protein, 1g Fat and 33g Carbs (with 2g Dietary Fiber).

    Also, this is going to be VERY different for each food item | meal. The label will help.

    If you are making a meal and you are putting in five food items (aka, ingredients) then you would combine the total of all five food items. And then divide (somehow....depends on how you chop it up).

    Does that help?
  • hvs2017
    hvs2017 Posts: 4 Member
    There is no label. I followed a recipe, typed in the name (as seen in the screenshot) and that is what it came up as. I didn't not alter anything the serving size was automatically populated by MFP.
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    edited May 2018
    The person who entered that recipe into the MFP database entered it that way. The recipe is set up for 6 servings and 1/6th is equivalent to 0.167.

    When you enter a new item into the database, you get to choose the units. It looks like the person who entered that recipe chose "th" as the unit rather than grams or cups or some other unit. Another thing that might have happened is that the user entered 1/6 th (with a space between the fraction and the "th") and MFP's software handled that by converting the fraction to a decimal and considering the "th" to be the unit.

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