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Foods I Add to Database

HeyJudii
Posts: 264 Member
If I add a food to the database, and check the box to let others use it, can they also change the nutritional info?
I'd hate to go to all the trouble of creating it based on what the package in my hand says, only to have someone change it, because their older package says something else.
I'd hate to go to all the trouble of creating it based on what the package in my hand says, only to have someone change it, because their older package says something else.
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They can change the info yes. This is why I add all my foods to my food diary manually and don't share with the database. Plus people don't always add foods to the database accurately or edit accurately1
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Yeah, I don't share either.
In the early days of MFP when they were trying to build a crowd-sourced database every entry was "shared" by default unless I made a click to say, "No." Now they have it set to not share unless you click the "Share" thing.
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Great
And, once shared, there is no way to unshare it.0 -
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